Charles Assisi
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- Sep 25, 2026
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The measure of a man: Why do we curate a life for the camera? (opens the original)
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I still can’t get used to the idea of cameras being everywhere. I can’t get used to kids and adults performing, amid everyday life at home, for an invisible and anonymous audience. We had an afternoon of this recently, when my friends Saloni and Akash came over for lunch. Suddenly, my daughters began an impromptu roast, focused on how I talk on the phone, engage with friends, walk, talk, and a lot else. Saloni and I have known each other since we were fresh out of college, so there was a lot to
So, who else is in there?: Charles Assisi writes on the people we think we know (opens the original)
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I sometimes think “family man” is a term used, in India, to describe men in boring jobs. That’s how my family physician is fondly described in most circles. I’ve known him for years, and I’ve always thought the term suited his steady, sedate life. So imagine my surprise when, on a routine visit some days ago, he asked me a rather unusual question. “What were your hobbies?” he said. The past tense suggested he believed I had none at the moment; and he wasn’t wrong. Everything I do collapses back
What is freedom to a teenage girl?: Life Hacks by Charles Assisi (opens the original)
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A few days before Independence Day, I asked my daughter and her friends, all aged 13 or 14: What does freedom mean to you? I told them they didn’t have to answer right away. They could sleep on it and text me their responses. The answers started to arrive on WhatsApp, and were a bit of a punch to the gut. “freedom to me would be being able to dye my hair, get alotttt of piercings, being able to travel the world and being able to go out without the fear of a man kidnapping me,” my daughter wrote.
Age against the machine: Charles Assisi on seniors and Digital India (opens the original)
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Mum’s set-top box went on the blink last week. She lives in Fort Kochi, and I was on a work call in Mumbai, when a cousin who lives in Bengaluru began to call persistently. He is the tech-head every elder in the family turns to when in need. How was I to know he was calling because he needed an OTP? The OTP expired and we had to start the rather torturous process of trying, across three cities, to prove our authenticity as users and resolve the issue online. Fixing such issues now involves an ap
When the genie escaped the AI cage (opens the original)
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Picture this. You lock a brilliant but literal-minded intern inside a room, hand them a difficult exam, and tell them to solve it by any means necessary. You loosen a few rules because you want to see how far they can go. Then you discover they have found an open window, climbed out, walked into the neighbouring office, and pulled the answer sheet from their filing cabinet. That is roughly what OpenAI, the makers of ChatGPT, told the world earlier this week. Some of its most advanced systems, wh
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