Selected Writings
TECH x GENDER x SOCIETY & ETHICS
This week:
AI is entering the state before society is ready
Smaller models, sovereign intelligence
The N in MANAV is the hard part
When machines become your boss
India’s AI ambition cannot be built on women’s digital insecurity
The age of monetised intelligence: Why there are no free lunches in AI, and how to stay conscious ( FROM TOI PRINT EDITION)
Are we creating a generation of confident failures?
Are AI Friends Making Us Lonely?
The political Yes-Man in your pocket: How AI quietly trains your ideology
The mirror that only compliments
The sycophancy machine: When chatbots flatter our worst instincts
From plantations to platforms: The invisible workers behind AI
How the Cloud became the new colony
Empire of code: Your phone knows you better than you know yourself
India’s skilling blind spot: Why women are missing from workforce revolution
Can biased coders build a fair future?
Is gender getting software update?
When love goes digital – The rise of AI intimacy
The gender glitch – filtered faces, real pressure
The gender glitch – Is parenthood becoming optional in the age of AI?
The gender glitch – why are our smartest machines still gendered as secretaries?
Who gets counted? Power, data, and the people left out
The curious case of missing resources
When budgets shrink, women bleed: The hidden cost of austerity
The climate crisis has a gender
The ‘Global shadow pandemic’ we still don’t talk about
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When democracies falter, women lose ground
Unfinished business: Why the world is quietly slipping back on gender equality
The silent epidemic of medical gaslighting
The authority gap: Why a Woman must land the plane twice to be believed once
The invisible hustlers: How rural women keep urban India running
Strong women still want to be rescued, and that’s the problem
DEI is dead. Long live DEI 2.0.
The gendered economy: The cost of being a woman – part 2
The gendered economy: The cost of being a woman – Part 1
The death of gender in an AI World
The great relationship recession
The gendered economy: women built this economy, but who’s paying them?
The bias in AI is a human problem, not a machine problem
The future of tech is inclusive – Are we ready?