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Sep 29, 2026
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  1. Article · Sep 29, 2026 · Rahul Matthan

    Rare diseases can be treated with tailored gene therapy but India’s regulatory system must evolve | Mint (opens the original)

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    This is a Mint Premium article gifted to you.Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. Earlier this month, The New York Times carried a widely forwarded essay about Annette Harlow, a woman in her eighties who, in early 2020, had been told that her lung cancer had stopped responding to treatment. Soon after that, she was enrolled on a Phase 1 trial of a new drug and six years later, she is still alive. As heartening as the story is, the larger point it makes is that it is not science which holds us bac

  2. Article · Sep 15, 2026 · Rahul Matthan

    Learning on the job is crucial for certain professions but AI threatens to automate it away | Mint (opens the original)

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    This is a Mint Premium article gifted to you.Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. In a post earlier this month, mathematician Terence Tao described a recent incident at the frontier of his field. He spoke of how, just days after a young mathematician named Stadlmann published a proof (addressing a long-standing problem about the size of the gaps between prime numbers), several artificial intelligence (AI) companies announced numerically stronger solutions. While Tao was relieved that Stadlmann ma

  3. Article · Sep 8, 2026 · Rahul Matthan

    Thinking of AI agents as digital humans is convenient but we mustn’t take this analogy too far | Mint (opens the original)

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    This is a Mint Premium article gifted to you.Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. Of the many articles written after the OpenAI-HuggingFace incident late last month, one by Dwarkesh Patel in which he referred to it as the rise and fall of agent ‘civilisations’ seems to have evoked the most visceral response. In the article, Patel described how hundreds of artificial intelligence (AI) agents within OpenAI, tasked with passing an evaluation, organized themselves over a period of three months to col

  4. Article · Sep 1, 2026 · Rahul Matthan

    India is an inventive country, yet too many innovations die prematurely. Let’s prevent that | Mint (opens the original)

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    This is a Mint Premium article gifted to you.Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. The Simputer was the first genuinely original computer that India built. As the legal advisor to the project, I was lucky to own one of its first colour units off the production line, and I had hours of fun with its truly novel interface and advanced features. For those who have never heard of it, the Simputer was a palm-sized touchscreen device designed in Bangalore at the turn of the millennium, years before Apple

  5. Article · Aug 25, 2026 · Rahul Matthan, Manish Sabharwal

    India needs a single repository of all laws for people to consult—here’s how that can be achieved | Mint (opens the original)

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    This is a Mint Premium article gifted to you.Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. The Government of India Act, 1935, was the last gasp of a colonial empire trying to stave off demands for democracy. In 1950, our 299 Constituent Assembly members wrote a constitution that has delivered elections and given citizens a voice, but the unelected power of our administrative state has struggled to shift from ruling to governing. The immense promise of recent policy initiatives around Jan Vishwas, aimed at

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