While the ET editorial goes oh-so-soft in its criticism of Uttarakhand's UCC, the TOI editorial tears it apart - "Takes police into bedrooms, tells adults their parents still run the show. This is a sad and bad beginning of a new law".

"Intrusion into the private lives of people. The aim seems to be to ensure that intimate relationships have social sanction. This is at odds with people’s right to privacy and individual liberty."

A lot of that kind of thing is social media teams with very little — if at all — journalistic training doing their own thing and the actual journalists not caring.

My column in Scroll about the H1B.

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A Deer Shot In The Headlights

What do you do when you see the great American pickup truck that (over)sped past you moments ago run over a deer and screech to a stop off the shoulder of a dark, desolate 2-lane highway?

First snow blanket morning of the season always puts me in a Calvin & Hobbes mood!

Of all types of road accidents, this one scares me THE most: a vehicle from the opposite direction losing control, jumping the median and hitting your vehicle! An ex-colleague lost his child many years ago in the Mumbai-Pune highway. 1/2

I see it as 10% productivity increase with the first round of tools itself. Tools will improve.

The bulk developer job role in IT companies will invariably go down the route of the draughtsman in Manufacturing firms once CAD started coming in.

IT is done as an enabler of mass economic mobility

Sab Changa Si mindset means Modi govt & media just don't give the people harsh truths anymore to prepare them like governments are supposed to.

AI coding means MASSIVE culling is coming to Indian tech sector. Why NRN wants to extract 70 hour work weeks before his labor arbitrage party ends.