Why should developments in Venezuela, a country 14,000 km away, be of any interest to India? Venezuela was until some years ago, a major supplier of oil to India. There were around 200 Indian families there until political turmoil and instability saw most of them leave. The US has ‘recognised’ an opposition leader as that country’s president even though Nicolas Maduro holds that office. In this interview with India’s former ambassador to Venezuela, Smita Purushottam, SNI brings you background and a perspective on developments there. #india #Venezuela #sniwire
Disruptive promise of and June 12th US ban on Mythos shook the world. There are competing AI visions - Krishna vs Clarke. Convergence of Quantum, AGI/ASI and Crypto may unprecedentedly destroy our world if not enslave humanity.
Musk promises abundance for all. A Scottish earl explained 200 years ago why the machines that make everything will make their owners richer than ever, and everyone else dependent. The real question was never the size of your ration. It is who owns the river, and who holds the rod above him.
Disparagement humor is a built and financed weapon. It boxes a people with a label, hardens the label into stigma, and makes the sacred laughable until a civilization forgets why it was worth saving. Rome never learned this lesson. However, India needs to. Ask - Who is paying for the laughter?
India's exam crisis is real. NEET leaked. JEE was hacked. CBSE's answer sheets were blurred. But the movement built on student anger arrived too organized, scaled too fast, and demands regime change — not reform. A sixty-year-old doctrine explains exactly what is happening.
