What's On My Mind
Sukumar RanganathanA weekly conversation on some topics that were on @HT_ED's mind.
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SIR, visas, AI, and botched jobs
Some may choose to believe that the big news of the past week was the anti-Special Intensive Revision and anti-Chief Election Commissioner protest by opposition parties in Delhi.
I’ve written extensively about SIRs in previous newsletters...
Jumping through hoops
One sought to unearth black money — only it didn’t really do that, put people through great inconvenience, but also accelerated India’s adoption of digital payments.
Another sought to unearth illegal voters — only, it didn’t really do that...
Reluctant partners
Many years ago, at a party, I was introduced to the India head of a large multinational Private Equity firm (he was an Indian), and his expat wife. As we got talking I realized that the man and I were of the same age, and that he had studie...
Creators, short videos and real drama
The real issues — aesthetic, hygiene, civic, and intellectual — with short-form videos present both a demand-side problem and a supply-side one.
By some estimates, there are in excess of 60 million short-form videos being created every day...
Delhi, from one mishap to another
In a 2025 essay marking five years of the pandemic, I wrote about how sometimes the biggest regret for a journalist is not being wrong about something, but being right about it. I have a feeling my colleague and the head of HT’s data journa...
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