DEMOCRACY

AI should not be controlled by three companies in San Francisco. Open source is how we keep AI democratic. That's not idealism — it's survival strategy for everyone who isn't OpenAI or Google.

Money in politics is corrosive, but walking away from the fight doesn’t make it better. You have to engage.

Fashion should be democratic. Everyone deserves to look good, not just people who can afford designer prices.

India's biggest risk is not poverty. It is the weakening of the intermediary institutions — the NGOs, the journalists, the universities — that stand between the citizen and raw state and market power.

Journalism is the immune system of democracy. And right now it's sick.