A chilling portrait of a man who mistakes violence for identity, only to discover that even a carefully manipulated justice system cannot protect him from the consequences of killing his own father.
“I need red meat at every meal. Potatoes don't give you that.”
The story’s real shock is not the murder but Saurabh’s inability to understand that the system he thought he could control was never entirely his to control.
Digital payments may be doing more than reducing transaction friction: they could be giving India's informal enterprises, for the first time, a usable financial history.
“A QR code, on this reading, is not the end of the story about how India's informal economy modernises. It may be the beginning of it.”
If the proposed causal chain survives testing, India may have found a way to raise informal-sector productivity without requiring workers to first enter the formal economy.
The Inequality Machine: What AI Actually Redistributes
AI is not inherently an inequality machine; its distributional consequences depend on who owns the data, compute and models, and on whether institutions can catch up with its power.
“AI now puts everyone in: not at the end of the argument about what this technology becomes, but at the only point in its history when the argument can still be won by someone other than whoever currently holds it.”
The central AI question is therefore not whether technology creates inequality, but whether ownership and institutions can redirect its gains before concentration becomes entrenched.