Jonathan Ananda

Desk Editor @thomsonreuters | Opinions are personal

[Sushant Singh @SushantSin]

As this piece explains, Ram Temple under the Modi govt has been given too many exceptions. Not controlled by any law or statute made by the state govt but a private trust. No stautory audits by the state or central govt, only private audit. This system was designed for theft.

[Sushant Singh @SushantSin]

Can a former CEC take such a commercial role?

[Anusha Ravi Sood @anusharavi10]

the BJP government in West Bengal & ISKCON claims soya beats eggs on protein. ICMR-NIN nutrition tables say otherwise. This is science over fragile sensibilities.

Soya does not match eggs in protein quality or provide key nutrients like vitamin B12, vitamin D, choline & preformed vitamin A
https://t.co/xWPszlsP4p

[Sushant Singh @SushantSin]

Oying, Paniar, Marpan, Potrang and Tindingtang, all under traditional Nah control until 2020, have gradually come under Chinese occupation.

What is the army's and the govt's response to this PLA land-grab in Arunachal Pradesh?

[Sushant Singh @SushantSin]

Oh definitely, but not for the reasons you mention, Mr Amit.

[Seema Chishti @seemay]

Why the court order justifying the ban on telegram is such a dangerous one.

[Rajat Pandit @IamRajat_Pandit]

The spreading rot of #Pseudoscience at the #IlTs will encourage top-tier Indian talent to move to universities abroad, says Vasudevan Mukunth.

[Nav Toor @heynavtoor]

A student submitted an essay she wrote by hand. Her university ran it through an AI detector. The detector said she cheated. She is autistic.

Her name is Moira Olmsted. Adelphi University. February 2026. Turnitin flagged her essay as 100% AI-generated. She was disciplined.

Two other AI detectors classified the same essay as human-written.

She sued. She won. The court called the school's decision "arbitrary and capricious."

She is not the only one.

In May 2026, a high school student in Palo Alto was expelled after an AI detector flagged his work. He faced visa revocation. He filed a federal civil rights lawsuit.

A researcher at Griffith University just proved mathematically why this keeps happening. The paper is on arXiv. The finding is one sentence.

AI text detectors have a structural flaw that no amount of better engineering can fix.

Here is what the math says.

If a university wants its detector to catch 80% of cheaters, at least 750 out of every 10,000 innocent students will be wrongly accused. That is not a software problem. It is a theorem.

If the university tries to limit false accusations to 1%, detection power collapses to 6%. It catches 6 out of every 100 AI-written papers. The other 94 get through.

There is no setting where the detector is both fair and effective.

The reason is diversity. Every student writes differently. Non-native English speakers use simpler vocabulary. Shorter sentences. Clearer structures. So does AI. A Stanford study found that 61.3% of TOEFL essays written by non-native English speakers were misclassified as AI-generated. A separate analysis tested 14 commercial detection tools. Zero out of 14 reached 80% accuracy.

The students most likely to be wrongly accused are non-native English speakers, neurodivergent students, and anyone who writes with clarity and precision. The qualities that make their writing effective are the same qualities the detector mistakes for a machine.

Vanderbilt University understood this. They disabled Turnitin's AI detection in 2023 after calculating that even a 1% error rate across 75,000 submissions would produce 750 wrongful accusations per year.

750 students accused of cheating for writing like themselves.

The paper's conclusion is not that we need better detectors. It is that the diversity of human writing itself makes accurate detection mathematically impossible.

The same thing that makes your writing yours is the thing that gets you accused.

https://t.co/L91ldtXP05

[Sushant Singh @SushantSin]

In a country where a majority of children struggle with malnutrition. And the effect doesn't vanish in the grown up years. We are actively destroying India's future.

[Sushant Singh @SushantSin]

Is anyone surprised?

[Sushant Singh @SushantSin]

Such desperation.

[Sushant Singh @SushantSin]

A couple of things. No mention of video recording of when the donation boxes were emptied and counted. No mention of an FIR.

Also the charge that Mr Champat ran it like a RSS office is rather weird, because it implies RSS offices are mismanaged and corrupt.

[SANJAY HEGDE @sanjayuvacha]

Sometimes you don't even need to click the link, to know which judge would have said that.

[Sushant Singh @SushantSin]

The name of the HC judge sounds familiar. Also look at what he says about Vijay and churches. Sick.

[Sushant Singh @SushantSin]

They will destroy the education system, both because of their ideological designs and their incompetence to govern. The consequences are scary.

[Rajdeep Sardesai @sardesairajdeep]

IMPORTANT: In this season of political splits and mergers, the Supreme Court’s questionable role has largely escaped scrutiny.
1) The SC is yet to deliver a final ruling on the Shiv Sena (UBT) appeal filed in January 2024 challenging the Maharashtra Assembly Speaker’s decision on the party split. That’s 30 months, four CJIs and counting.
2) The SC is also yet to rule on a petition filed by Goa Congress leader Girish Chodankar in March 2022 challenging a Bombay High Court order related to defections. More than four years have passed.

When the history of this period is written, the Supreme Court’s performance as a constitutional guardian must come under serious examination.🙏

[Tony Joseph @tjoseph0010]

Funny that a party that came to power on the back of a supposedly anti-corruption movement now buys legislators at scale, in bulk, all across the nation in a pretty brazen and unprecedented manner. May be futures trading in legislator prices should be allowed, with analysts tracking the sector and its price and profit dynamics. Let everyone be a stakeholder in the corruption.

[Sarayu Pani @sarayupani]

What Priyank Kharge is doing is trying to hit at the respectability that the RSS feigns with its bourgeoisie base.

To my mind it won’t matter because their supporters are more likely to be impressed than shamed by their gaming the system for 100 years.

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[Sushant Singh @SushantSin]

The only problem is for an hour of namaz during Eid. Else the road can be closed now for days.

[Sam C @culturedbuoy]

The original sin of the Indian National Congress was giving RSS the privilege of existing (thriving) without even a shred of basic transparency and accountability, let alone prosecuting for their communal & anti-society activities.