4th Dimension

The collapse of the dot-com bubble in the early 2000s and the devastation of the 2008 financial crisis were seismic events in the history of the global economy. However, neither compares to the technological storm that erupted in 2025, reshaping the global power dynamics of artificial intelligence (AI). The U.S. tech sector witnessed an unprecedented market collapse, losing $1 trillion in a single day. At the heart of this disaster was Nvidia, the titan of AI chip manufacturing, which saw $600 billion wiped off its valuation within hours—a scale of destruction never before seen in American corporate history. The shock did not originate from regulatory crackdowns, economic downturns, or investor panic. It came from an unexpected revolution in AI, orchestrated by a small Chinese company and a handful of engineers who introduced the DeepSeek R1 model—an AI system so efficient and disruptive that it threatened to topple Silicon Valley’s dominance. DeepSeek R1: The Disruptor of ...

Kumbh Mela reveals a side of Hinduism that is often not talked about. It is not about temples, gods, devotion, songs, or saints. It is primarily a ritual, dominated by boisterous masculine energy embodied in naked ascetics (digambara). These ascetics are covered with ash (bhabhut), with matted hair (jata), and hold staffs (dandi). They belong to various gymnasiums (akhara). They evoke the followers (gana) of the wild form of Shiva (Bhairava). It's a ritual gathering, not about meditation or contemplation. It is about taking a dip in a particular spot in the river at the right time, after it's consecrated by bathing ascetics. The roots can be argued to be Tantrik, involving the body (tanu, in Sanskrit). Such rituals happen in many parts of India, where the ash-smeared ascetics congregate. These ascetics likely originated in the east, in the Terai region, and challenged the Vedic order from the western Punjab region, possibly around 1000 BC. They clashed at Gangadwar, now called ...