Meghna Bal is a lawyer with experience in media and emerging technology. She is the Director of the Esya Centre, a New-Delhi based think tank.
Calls for democratised AI ring hollow unless India fixes data access rules, procurement bias, and compute policy to empower start-ups and domestic innovation
Meghna Bal
February 23, 2026 at 3:12 AM IST
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At its core, the case exposes the State’s failure to balance two competing freedoms: the freedom of the State to tax, and the freedom of an investor to structure its investments in reliance on the rule of law.
February 5, 2026 at 8:29 AM IST
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Grok has shown willingness to generate responses that other AIs would typically refuse. But it seems to mirror the tone of the user too.
April 7, 2025 at 7:29 AM IST
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