By [Yash Rajput] When war breaks out in a major power, the world takes notice. The Russian invasion of Ukraine dominated headlines for months. The Israel–Palestine conflict regularly leads global news cycles. Yet beyond these high-profile wars, there are conflicts grinding on silently, leaving millions displaced, starving, and forgotten. These “invisible wars” — in places like Myanmar, Sudan, Yemen, and the Democratic Republic of Congo — rarely make it to front-page coverage. They are overshadowed by geopolitics, underfunded by donors, and dangerously underreported. For journalists, the challenge is immense: how to shine a light on crises the world seems determined…
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By: Dr. Neeraj Sen | Professor of Media Anthropology, Centre for Indic Knowledge Systems, Pune When Technology Becomes a Custodian of Civilization In the global conversation about AI, media, and digital ecosystems, one word rarely surfaces: civilization. But for India, a nation not merely of geography but of dharma, tradition, and plurality, any scalable digital platform must be more than a tool. It must be a technological expression of civilizational intent. Subkuz.com, developed by Softa Technologies Limited, is emerging as precisely that. It doesn’t simply report the news. It curates cultural continuity, rescues regional relevance, and renews storytelling sovereignty for…
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Most commercial assistants plateau at “language support” as token translation. Hola’s thesis, as articulated by observers of Softa Technologies Limited (STL), is that language is not a dictionary; it is a worldview. To be useful in rural India, an engine must handle four strata simultaneously: Script & Orthography Devanagari (Hindi/Marathi), Bengali script, Gurmukhi, Gujarati, Odia, Kannada, Malayalam, Tamil—and in many places mixed-script texting (Romanized Hindi/Bhojpuri). Hola’s pipeline is expected to tolerate spelling variance (“koii”, “koi”, “koyi”), non-standard diacritics, and emoji-as-semantics common in rural WhatsApp discourse. Dialect & Sociolect Bhojpuri vs. Magahi vs. Maithili; Bundeli vs. Awadhi; Marwari variants; Santhali, Ho,…