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There are laws and UN declarations to ban these patriarchal, anti-woman practices, but without much success. (Photo: Representational image)

Patriarchy made woman the other'

Virginity rituals, menstrual segregation, taboos on women's entry in places of worship are all patriarchal cultural...

8 Aug 2018 2:18 AM IST

The problem is the hypocrisy in Indian society, a manifestation of the deep-rooted patriarchy

Culture may be the great leveller

Studies point out that women of different families within the same group or even of different groups forge stable ties...

8 Aug 2018 2:00 AM IST

The early phase of internet in the 1990s-early 2000 was not highly commercialised. (Representational image)

Information turns into power, absolutely

A lot of code is now produced by machines and it is very difficult to separate this beyond a point.

29 July 2018 5:49 AM IST

he Conversation article on information warfare being more dangerous than cyber warfare refers to the kind of danger that presents in terms of a takeover, a kind of invasion of the mind and the cognitive terrain.

Toxic information warfare on net defies solutions

People with similar views come together and it becomes a vicious cycle of the same news circulating within the same...

29 July 2018 5:44 AM IST

People born in the 1940s are likely to be different from those born in the 1970s or 1990s. If you have a teenager son or daughter and you are urban middle class, chances are that s/he is going to stand up and make you feel outdated. They are better socialised in the use of mobile technology than the older generation is.

India remains status conscious

We have the google generation. But everyone does not become addicted to google.

23 July 2018 1:02 AM IST

The naming of generations and subsequently ascribing rather broad personality attributes such as altruism and narcissism, has been popularised greatly in several disciplines, in particular human relations and organisational behaviour.

Dynamics of generations

The term millennials was first used by Neil Howe and William Strauss in their book Generations (1991).

23 July 2018 12:57 AM IST

Fake news isnt easy to find as people continue to passively scroll through it instead of probing it.

Time fake news is nipped in the bud

With digitisation developing at breakneck speed it has become imperative to talk about stopping the spread of fake news.

19 July 2018 7:16 AM IST

Fake news isnt easy to find as people continue to passively scroll through it instead of probing it.

Fake news cannot be unseen

Sometimes we can identify news as fake and many times we cannot.

19 July 2018 7:13 AM IST

India has been branded the most dangerous country for women and the USA third, along with Syria, on factors of sexual violence, harassment and coercion into sex.

Survey trashes India, US on women

Critics call it a survey based on perceptions, not data.

8 July 2018 3:30 AM IST

Diversity policy has been in effect at Harvard and all the other Ivy League colleges for many years.

Race neutrality helps students grow

Many states in India follow the reservations policy as part of affirmative action and social engineering.

4 July 2018 4:46 AM IST

Today, the average percentage of Jewish students is 25 per cent on Ivy League campuses, with a 6-million population. Compare! There are about 20 million AsAms, while Harvard is limiting AsAms on campus to about 20 per cent. There is no reasoning...

Racial bias in US admissions

Allegations of bias against Asian Americans are part of the raging debate in the US.

4 July 2018 4:41 AM IST

Experts believe the system will be able to handle posts containing hate speech, racism and sexism.

AI learns to ditch swear words

The new sentence was then translated back to see how closely it resembled the original.

24 Jun 2018 12:53 AM IST