The death of Sahil Wakode has carved a deep wound into the campus of IIT Bombay, a place usually associated with ambition, brilliance, and the promise of a better future. Sahil was a 22-year-old second-year B.Tech student, a young man with years of study and dreams still ahead of him. On the evening of September 18, he was found hanging in his hostel room, just hours after he had reportedly been caught using a mobile phone to access ChatGPT during a mid-semester examination. The news of his death has left his classmates in shock, his parents in unbearable grief, and…

There are moments when political rhetoric cuts through the noise and captures something deeper, and Andy Burnham’s response to Vladimir Putin’s disinformation campaigns is one of those moments. The Greater Manchester Mayor did not mince words. He called the Kremlin’s efforts to sow division in the UK “repulsive and insidious,” and his fury was not abstract. It was directed at a very real form of warfare—one that targets minds and emotions, not soldiers and cities. Burnham’s warning came against a backdrop of growing concern inside government that hostile states, Russia chief among them, have been waging an invisible war on…