Will AI help or hurt Creativity and Entertainment?

It’s easy to say AI is evil because it is copying art made by humans. It feels as if AI is the world’s blatant plagiarizer that creates really bad art. There is truth there, AI today is a bad imitator at best and is far from being original. On the other hand, what’s creativity? Isn’t […]

Dawn of new Media and Entertainment

How will AI reshape new Media and Entertainment? I don’t have all the answers to that question but I know more people will create entertaining art, animation, games, stories because of how easy it is to do so with the help of AI. Think of it like this, before printing press was invented, there were […]

“Art Should Disturb The Comfortable and Comfort The Disturbed” –from a Charles river runner’s T-Shirt

Art for art’s sake is absolutely important. What is the point of rationalizing art, isn’t art a matter of the heart. Shouldn’t true art come from the heart. Absolutely. But if art doesn’t console and comfort people when they are disturbed or shake things up when they are feeling too comfortable, is it really art […]

#7 Tirthak Saha

On modernizing the power grid infrastructure and making life choices that you are happy with Tirthak Saha has a BS in Electrical Engineering from Drexel. He was selected by Forbes 30 under 30 for his work in electric grid modernization. He worked on Smart Grid projects at utility giant American Electric Power. One of his […]

#2 Sriram Emani

On disrupting the 600-year old Indian music and dance industry and choosing to do what you love Sriram Emani is the Co-founder and CEO of IndianRaga. He is a 2015 Global Fellow with the International Society for the Performing Arts (ISPA), where he was the only Indian out of 52 Fellows from across the world. Dedicated […]

I Cheated On My Love For 15 Years, I Was Blind But Now I See

“like the parting of ways in human relationships, getting distracted and moving away from my love for art was gradual and almost invisible.” __Madhav SBSS One beautiful evening in 1982, I broke my leg and found my love. I fell in love with art when I fractured my left leg while playing a stupid game […]

Leicester Codex: Leonardo’s Notes On Water Flow

“The painter is the rival of nature” __Leonardo da Vinci Leonardo Da Vinci spent many a day watching the water flow, hitting rocks and other obstacles along the way. He made a binder of his notes on water, popularly known as the Leicester Codex. In his observations of nature, he is said to have remarked […]