Category: Insights
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Who Owns a Song Written by a Machine? Copyright in the Age of AI Music
Tarak Dhurjati Recently I gave prompts of my poem published in the anthology ” The Unedited juvenile verses , Part-1, ” available on Amazon. I added an interlude “dum dum dum tipu tipu tipu tipu” to make it funny. Hats off to the power of AI, it generated a great song which I have posted…
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Beyond GDP: Why India needs an Innovation-Led Development State
Tarak Dhurjati Mar 29, 2026 For decades, economic strategy—both globally and in India—has revolved around a single number: GDP. Governments track it obsessively, global institutions forecast it with precision, and policy frameworks are built around nudging it upward. The IMF and World Bank project global growth at around 3.3% for 2026, supported by incremental policy…
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Fire from the Sky: Operation Meetinghouse, Atomic Decisions, and the Ethics of Total War
An Essay on War planning for Hiroshima and Nagasaki By the spring of 1945, the United States had learned how to burn a city to the ground. Before Hiroshima and Nagasaki ushered in the nuclear age, Tokyo had already been turned into a furnace. On the night of March 9–10, 1945, under General Curtis LeMay,…
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AI-Powered Patent Intelligence: Scoring Innovation for Real Commercial Value
In today’s innovation economy, patents are often described as the currency of technology. Yet, paradoxically, most patent portfolios remain underutilized, mispriced, and poorly understood. Across corporations, universities, startups, and public research institutions, thousands of patents sit dormant — some incremental, some half-formed, some commercially trivial, and a few potentially transformative. The challenge has never been…
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AI is transforming Plant Breeding: Accelerating Breeding Cycles and Delivering Climate-Resilient Varieties for the Seed Industry
The global seed industry is operating under unprecedented pressure. Climate volatility, escalating biotic and abiotic stresses, rising R&D costs, and shortening commercial product lifecycles are forcing breeders to deliver superior varieties faster than ever before. Traditional plant breeding—while scientifically robust—was never designed for this pace of change. Artificial Intelligence (AI) is now emerging as a…
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SEED ENCAPSULATES THE GENETICS OF A PLANT VARIETY – SEED BILL ,2025
JANUARY 3, 2026 A CRITICAL LOOK AT INDIA’S SEEDS BILL, 2025 Tarak Dhurjati Seeds are not merely inputs. They are compressed packets of genetics, science, history, and power. How a nation regulates seeds ultimately determines who controls agricultural productivity, farmer choice, and food sovereignty. India’s Seeds Bill, 2025, which seeks to replace the Seeds Act of…
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Don’t Kill the Pest—Stop the Mating
How sustainable crop protection works by breaking insect population cycles, not poisoning fields Pest control is not about extermination, but balance. By disrupting insect mating and keeping pest populations below economic thresholds, pheromones and semiochemicals offer a proven, sustainable way to protect crops, farmer incomes, and food safety—without collateral ecological damage. Rethinking pest control: from…
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CROSSING LINES: A Short History of Passports, Visas and How We Control Movement
From clay tablets and royal letters of safe conduct to biometric chips and mobile-based digital IDs, the passport has always been more than paper — it’s a statement of sovereignty, technology, and identity. The story of passports and visas mirrors the evolution of human mobility itself: the quest to move for survival, trade, faith, or…
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📰 Copyright in the Age of Artificial Intelligence: The New Creative Frontier
Tarak Dhurjati © 2025 Introduction: When Machines Learn to Create The world of art, literature, and media is undergoing its most profound disruption since the invention of the printing press. Artificial Intelligence (AI) systems — from ChatGPT and Gemini to Grok, DeepSeek, and Perplexity — are not just tools for analysis or automation; they have…
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