INDIALIVE

A doctor analysing the human anatomy using AI. AI is increasingly applied in India to health consultations, creative writing, and bureaucratic functions, but adoption faces societal bias, weak digital infrastructure, and reliance on foreign technology. (Image for representational purposes) | Photo Credit: Vithun Khamsong/Getty Images Recently, I used AI as a substitute for the urologist. […]

For more than three decades, Milind Soman has occupied a curious place in India’s cultural imagination — first as the model who defined an era of advertising in the 1990s, later as an athlete and symbol of endurance running and fitness, and then as an actor moving between languages and industries, on screens big and […]

It begins, as many food memories do, in a kitchen. In the recently released biography Chapal Rani: The Last Queen of Bengal (Seagull Books), author Sandip Roy recalls how Chapal Bhaduri, the legendary female impersonator of Bengali jatra folk theatre, lingered in his mother’s kitchen. Not playing rough with the para (neighbourhood) boys outside, but drawn instead to the rhythms of […]