Browse my articles, showcasing the core themes of my reportage

The Global Influence of Chinese Technology

• What the U.S.-China chip war means for India

• How China’s ShareIt became the world’s go-to file-transfer app

• Apple and Foxconn lobbied India to relax its labor laws. Unions are fighting back.

• How Indian is an Indian smartphone?

• Xiaomi tries to win back Indian consumers

• Foxconn’s whirlwind year in India

• Chinese investors lose out in Indian tech IPO boom

• Meet the rising stars of India’s video apps

• Counting the cost of India’s ‘Boycott China’ campaign

• TikTok is fuelling India’s deadly hate speech epidemic

• Censorship claims emerge as TikTok gets political in India

• Browser wars: How Google beat Chinese giant UC in India

Rise of AI and its Societal Impact

• AI Modi started as a joke, but it could win him votes

• AI comes for YouTube’s thumbnail industry

• AI image generators have a moderation problem

• DALL.E has a mysterious obsession with women in sarees

• Forget subtitles: YouTube now dubs videos with AI-generated voices

• An Indian politician says scandalous audio clips are AI generated. We had them tested

• YouTube has created a multimillion-dollar dubbing economy

• Indian teens earned a fortune on Shorts. Then YouTube came after them

• ”We are digging our own graves”: Translators are being left behind in India’s streaming boom

• This AI startups is creating personalized deepfake for corporations

• An Indian politician is using deepfake technology to win new voters