Pratik Kanjilal

Senior Fellow, Henry J Leir Institute of Migration and Human Security, Tufts University.

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Pratik Kanjilal

Futurologist Alvin Toffler was highly acclaimed for correctly predicting that the knowledge-based economy would eclipse the post-industrial age

Blurred visions of future past

Pratik Kanjilal

09 Jan 2026

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Bangladesh redefined itself on linguistic basis, rejecting the Islamic identity Pakistan had adopted. Now, minorities and migrants are being targeted on both sides as politics is threatening to tear apart the neighbours.

India and Bangladesh: United by blood, divided by politics

Pratik Kanjilal

25 Dec 2025

4 min read

Professor Joseph Weizenbaum being clicked using the Eliza chatbot at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts

Poetry outfoxing AI, for better or verse

Pratik Kanjilal

12 Dec 2025

4 min read

A soldier standing guard near the McMahon line

Claiming Arunachal | Drawing maps in the mind

Pratik Kanjilal

28 Nov 2025

4 min read

A rendition from a 14th-century Arabic text of the catapult system, quite similar to the one used in the Siege of Caffa (also pronounced Kaffa) in 1346, which was believed to be used to throw plague-infected soldiers

Plagued by suspended scepticism

Pratik Kanjilal

14 Nov 2025

4 min read

Dr Rajeev Bhargava conducting his session titled, 'The Good, The Bad & The Ugly: The Many Meanings of Being Secular in India' for Pint of View Delhi on Sunday

Why nerds are herding to pubs

Pratik Kanjilal

31 Oct 2025

4 min read

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