Can Australia afford its own workforce?
There is a quiet irony in Australia’s jobs boom. More people are working than ever, yet many owe their paycheques to a sector that...
Operation Sindoor: War on Patriarchy?
The Devil’s Advocate, serving you a cocktail of humour, wit and sarcasm
Sindoor—for women who are not familiar with it—is a traditional red or vermilion...
What if the machine dreams of us?
A machine does not breathe. It does not sleep. It does not want, or need, or forget. But somewhere inside its lattice of logic,...
Space Girls: Glam in Orbit or Just a PR Joyride?
The Devil’s Advocate, serving you a cocktail of humour, wit and sarcasm
Space Girls isn't a pop band like the Spice Girls; they’re a crew...
What the system can’t hear
It listens perfectly. To tone. To syntax. To shape. It knows how I begin. It knows how I end. It knows my favourite hesitation,...
The ghost in the machine is us
There was a time when cave painters didn’t sign their work. When oral storytellers didn’t seek bylines. When music wasn’t recorded, only remembered. Creativity...
When power acts and failure claps
Despite dealing heavy blows to terror networks and asserting its strategic dominance with clarity and restraint, India remains calm. It does not burst crackers...
I don’t know who’s speaking anymore
There’s a moment—not always, but often—when I’m writing, and the words begin to arrange themselves too neatly. I stop and read them aloud, and...
What if you were the algorithm all along…
Originality is a trick mirror. We spend our lives peering into it, hoping to see something no one else has. But every time we...
We trained it on ourselves, then called it strange
The machine did not arrive from the void. We summoned it. Not with spells, but with prompts. Not with prayers, but with data. We...