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The Road to Thorium India’s first Fast Breeder Reactor (FBR) at Kalpakkam crossed a significant milestone in the first week of April 2026 when it attained criticality. If all goes to plan, when it is fully commissioned later this year, it will become one of the very few operational fast breeder reactors in the world. This is significant news. It opens up the possibility of India moving towards near energy independence and reducing geopolitical chokepoints on its growth trajectory by unlocking the vast potential of thorium. India has the world’s largest reserves of thorium, a resource that is often described—sometimes rather casually—as capable of powering the country for thousands of years. The claim is seductive, but it raises a more immediate question: how far are we, really, from turning that promise into reality? The answer lies not in thorium alone, but in understanding the layered logic of nuclear physics and the long, deliberate pathway designed to reach it. At the heart of nucl...

Bruce Lee entered our lexicon with his iconic movie, Enter the Dragon. Can artificial intelligence enter our daily corporate decisions with Enter the Centaur? But then what on earth is this Centaur? Before explaining the mechanics of this animal, it is worth asking a simple question. If AI systems are to assist in serious decision making, how should their cognitive roles be structured? Most current uses of large language models collapse description, evaluation and strategy into a single stream of text. The same system describes the world, judges options, anticipates adversaries and recommends action. That is perfectly adequate for drafting emails. It is less obvious that it is ideal for structured strategic reasoning. Centaur is an experiment in separating these functions and creating an artifact that has a novel approach to complex problem solving. It is a human–AI hybrid software construct designed to act as an adjudicator in complex strategic simulations. The current alpha version, ...

 

Celebrating the bountiful Harvest as the Sun transits from Dhanu Rashi to Makar Rashi - Happy Makar Sankranti 2026

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