G. Sampath
- Indexed articles, last 90 days
- 26
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- Sep 28, 2026
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- Jul 6, 2026
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In Focus Podcast | From KYC to AI models: Is India losing its digital sovereignty? (opens the original)
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Technology, and especially AI, are no longer just a tool for humans. Today they control our choices, shape our daily routines, and determine how we invest our energies. This is true at the level of the individual, and also at the level of the nation-state. While at the individual level, the key question concerns freedom, for the nation-state, it’s more about sovereignty – does India get to independently decide its own policies, or are they pre-decided for it by other geopolitical actors? A good
2026 Asian Games: Can India improve on its best ever medals tally from 2023? | In Focus Podcast (opens the original)
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The 2023 Asian Games in Hangzhou saw India’s best ever performance – we came back with 107 medals, including 28 gold medals, and we finished fourth on the medals table, behind only China, Japan and South Korea. The 2026 Asian Games will officially kick off in from September 19, and the big question is: can improve on its performance? In this episode, we preview ’s prospects, and joining us is Uthra Ganesan from The Hindu’s Sports Bureau. Host: G Sampath, Social Affairs Editor, The Hindu
BAPS | âSacredâ demands (opens the original)
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Visitors to Parisâs iconic Eiffel Tower last Monday (September 7, 2026) had to turn back in disappointment. The monument was closed following a protest against the managementâs move to replace all women staff with their male colleagues for the visit of a 100-strong delegation from the Hindu religious sect, Bochasanwasi Akshar Purushottam Swaminarayan Sanstha (BAPS). The local trade union condemned âworkplace instructions that led to female employees being sidelined, replaced and rendered i
Satire |Â Needed: Licence raj for stand-up comedians (opens the original)
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The government of India has done well to create a vibrant economy that offers few career options for our youth. It has been highly successful in destroying tens of thousands of micro, small, and medium enterprises. Yet inexplicably, it is struggling to kill comedy, a peewee industry of paavam micro-entrepreneurs trying to make a living from poor jokes. Still, as any comedian out on bail will tell you, joking in India is no joke. We do have in place an informal ecosystem for regulating stand-up
OBC reservations: Should âcreamy layerâ be junked in favour of sub-categorisation? | In Focus podcast (opens the original)
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The implementation of the creamy layer doctrine for OBC reservations has been beset with complications. A Supreme Court judgement on March 11 essentially held that Union government has been doing it all wrong all these years, and that their income/wealth test was subjecting a section of OBC applicants to âhostile discriminationâ. The Supreme court gave the government six months to implement its order with regard to the litigants. But the government has told the court that it will be too comp
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