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Acharya Prashant is a philosopher and author, an alumnus of IIT Delhi and IIM Ahmedabad. He is among the most widely read philosophical columnists writing in India today, with more than 190 published columns ranging across climate and consumption, elections and ideology, caste and religion, gender, education, geopolitics, technology, and the inner life.
What unifies this range is a single method: tracing every public crisis back to the unexamined self that produces it.
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The Pioneer19 Sep '26
Will AI Kill Us? First, Ask Who Is Afraid
In this article published in The Pioneer, Acharya Ji questions the prevailing fear surrounding AI and raises a fundamental question: who is the one who is afraid, and what is he actually trying to preserve?
Times Now31 Aug '26
Nepal Tragedy: The One Word No One Wants to Say
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