Kunal

Seemingly benign yet insidious, the Hindutva pop playlist includes songs set to hypnotic beats with lyrics that hint at an Islamic takeover of India, or which claim to tell the truth about India’s freedom struggle. Some of these are filled with conspiracy theories and historical inaccuracies meant to stoke communal tensions. In H-Pop: The Secretive World of Hindutva Pop Stars, journalist Kunal Purohit begins by conducting a post mortem of a riot in Jharkhand. A truck with loudspeakers blaring vitriolic songs targeting…

In a dazzling display of creativity, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman harnessed the power of the newly-launched AI model Sora to transform a tweet by CRED CEO Kunal Shah into a mesmerising video. Altman launched Sora on February 15 on X and invited users to send prompts to him. Several X users then sent various suggestions to Altman based on which he created some stunning videos via this innovative new AI model. Among them was Shah and Altman responded to that by getting Sora to generate an awesome video from scratch.Kunal Shah's…

As the domestic regulatory environment gets heated, Cred cofounder Kunal Shah said that India continues to have a regulator which is innovating much faster than the fintech companies in the market. Shah was speaking at The Economic Times CEO Roundtable in Mumbai, as part of a panel that included top industry leaders such as Tata Sons chairman N Chandrasekaran, Kotak Mahindra Bank founder Uday Kotak, Arundhati Bhattacharya, CEO, Salesforce India, Prabha Narasimhan, CEO of Colgate-Palmolive India, Rishad Premji, chairman of…

Do you know that director Mrinal Sen’s wife, Gita, did not touch a rosogolla in her life? And why did she deprive herself of the syrupy sweet that is part of Bengali identity? Because she didn’t have the money to buy a rosogolla for her dying father when he had asked for one. Many of us also did not know that Kunal, Mrinal Sen’s only child, an early PhD in Artificial Intelligence, always addressed his father as “bondhu”, the Bengali word for “friend”. That’s why he felt that Bondhu would be the ideal title for a book on…

Kunal Shah's Cred is expanding its lending strategy as it looks to tap a wider user base beyond the top layer of customers and offer a wider use case for credit. In a major change to the company's lending strategy, Cred plans to tap into the large market of consumers who are new to credit, that is they have never taken any formal credit in the past, two sources in the know told ET. Also, Cred wants to go beyond pure play personal loans for its own users and tap into new opportunities around consumer durable loans or check…

Published By: Paras YadavLast Updated: March 15, 2023, 19:00 IST2023 Honda City e:HEV (Photo: Paras Yadav/ News18.com)Honda Cars India said the company would keep its option open on resuming operations at its facility in Greater NoidaPremium car maker Honda Cars India banks on boosting sales of its latest upper sedan City which is equipped with a host of features including self-charging facility and Honda SENSING technology, a top official said.The Tokyo-headquartered automaker said the company would keep its option open…

Filmmaker and military historian Shiv Kunal Verma’s account of his life, Life of an Industani: Six Degrees of Separation, is, in equal measure, a thrilling account of India’s sociopolitical landscape from the 1980s to the present. 575pp, ₹995; BluOne Ink Verma, who started as a reporter-photographer for a Delhi magazine, witnessed the riots that followed former Prime Minister Indira Gandhi’s assassination in 1984. He rode his scooter around Delhi, urging people in power to step in to help, and photographing the city…

I first heard Teejan Bai during my sophomore days in Pune. She was performing in town and some of us were intrigued by an article that had appeared in the morning paper. Teejan Bai is an exponent of Pandavani, a folk music form involving the narration of tales from the Mahabharata. Upon attending the recital, I realised that a Teejan Bai performance is both visual as well as aural. Her stage presence is remarkable. She commands an all-male team of accompanying musicians. In her redoubtable style, she sings and takes the…

Kunal Sawarkar, Chief Data Scientist & AI Thought Leader of IBM, is leading the Build Labs to craft embedded AI (Artificial Intelligence) products. He has a Master’s degree from the prestigious Harvard University with major coursework in Applied Statistics. Kunal is popular in the global tech market for being the driving force behind multiple product labs with over 20 patents and paper publications in the technical field. He promotes thought leadership through his articles, keynotes, and speech deliveries on AI.…

Given growing security breaches and data thefts, businesses are slowly but certainly realizing the need to have cybersecurity systems in place. Integrating the existing systems into IT security infrastructure is a challenge for most companies, as they are not well equipped with the wherewithals of the latest technologies to prevent the most frequent breaches, if not predict a possible one. eSec Forte is a CMMi Level 3 global consulting and IT services company that provides reliable IT security services and is…