Rajiv Shah

The Ghost in the Machine: When Algorithmic Convenience Erodes Institutional Trust

As digital finance becomes indispensable, algorithmic convenience must not come at the cost of institutional accountability. AI generated image Last week, the National Payments Corporation of India announced a significant...
Technology 
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Who Writes India’s History?

A civilisation defends its history not by silencing uncomfortable narratives, but by creating generations strong enough to question every narrative. Manan Ahmed Asif History is not merely a record of...
History 
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New Alliances, New Pressures, New Fault Lines

To its west, old relationships in the Gulf are acquiring new strategic and military dimensions. Across the Atlantic, Washington is increasingly using tariffs as an instrument of foreign policy. At...
Foreign Affairs 
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The Anatomy of a Political Trap

Democracy guarantees every citizen the right to protest. It also places an equally important obligation upon governments to listen, negotiate and, where justified, resolve genuine public grievances. But democratic negotiations...
Politics 
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Marching Minds: The New Battlefield

The scenes witnessed in Delhi this week are not significant merely because another political protest has reached the national capital. Democracies are expected to witness demonstrations, disagreements and public dissent....
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AI Will Decide Which Small Businesses Survive

India’s economic future may not be decided by its billion-dollar technology companies alone. It may well be determined by the ability of millions of small and medium enterprises (SMEs) to...
Business 
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