Book Review: October 11, 2024
Brian Christian. The Alignment Problem: Machine Learning and Human Values. New York, NY: W.W. Norton & Company, 2020. 476 pages, ISBN: 9780393635829.
John H Noble, Jr
Letter: October 05, 2024
Every English lesson in high school concluded with the introduction of a new word, its meaning and its usage in a sentence. “Harrowing” was one such word, meaning “distressing”. “My grandmother told us many harrowing stories” was the sentence taught in class. This ...
Salik Ansari, Uma Kulkarni
Film Review: September 19, 2024
To Kill A Tiger, Executive Producers: Priyanka Chopra Jonas, Dev Patel, Mindy Kaling, Rupi Kaur, Director: Nisha Pahuja, Hindi, 2 hours 8 minutes, Oct 2023, Netflix release 2024
Usha Raman
Letter: September 18, 2024
In 2023, as per the World Health Organization (WHO), India emerged as the country with the highest number of tuberculosis (TB) cases, reporting 2.8 million cases and contributing to 27% of the global TB burden [1]. Worldwide, there were 7.5 million newly diagnosed TB cases in 2022, marking the hi...
Prajna Anirvan
Book Review: September 12, 2024
Ranjana Saha, Modern Maternities: Medical Advice about Breastfeeding in Colonial Calcutta (Routledge, 2023), 290 pages, Rs 1295, Hardback ISBN 9781032768243.
Kiran Kumbhar