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WILL AI DESTROY THE MEANING OF TRUTH?

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Will AI Destroy the Meaning of Truth? When Seeing Is No Longer Believing For thousands of years, human beings have trusted their eyes. If we saw something happen, we believed it happened. If someone showed us a photograph, it was considered evidence. If a camera recorded an event, the recording could become proof. A person's voice, captured on tape, could establish that they had said something. In courts, newsrooms and ordinary conversations, visual and audio evidence became powerful because people assumed that reality could be captured. Artificial intelligence is beginning to challenge that assumption. Today, a photograph can be created without a camera. A person's voice can be reproduced without that person speaking. A realistic video can show someone doing something they never did. A face can be placed into a scene where the person never existed. The technology is fascinating. But its greatest consequence may have little to do with entertainment, creativity or even automatio...

BEYOND COLONIAL SHADOWS: HAS INDIA’S NEW CRIMINAL LAW TRULY REPLACED THE BRITISH LEGACY, OR IS THE JOURNEY STILL INCOMPLETE?

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                              For nearly two centuries, India lived under British colonial rule. During that period, numerous laws were enacted to administer a vast colony that was governed not by the consent of its people, but by the authority of a foreign empire. Many of these statutes, particularly in criminal law, became deeply embedded in India’s legal framework. Even after Independence in 1947, several of them continued to remain in force, not because India chose colonialism, but because every newly independent nation requires legal continuity until comprehensive reforms can be undertaken. With the enactment of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita (BNS), Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita (BNSS), and Bharatiya Sakshya Adhiniyam (BSA) in 2023, India embarked upon one of the most significant legal reforms since Independence. These new laws have been widely described as an effort to modernize the criminal justice syst...