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The fall-out of the stabbing of Henry Nowak by a young Sikh shows the vulnerability of Sikhs who, despite being British-born or British citizens, are often viewed as foreigners. This reflects the racialisation of Sikhs as non-white and raises significant questions about home, identity, & belonging.

LLMs are powerful statistical learners, but human language acquisition is biologically constrained and structurally selective. For a multilingual society, conflating LLM usefulness with genuine understanding carries real costs, particularly in education.

Hindi cinema has recalibrated itself to serve majoritarian ideology and we have a new market for state-supported hatred. In post-truth times, audiences seek self-validation over truth, and films like Dhurandhar mirror the mood of our times.