The next four years will be a unique and unprecedented test of American founding father Benjamin Franklin’s warning: "A Republic, if you can keep it."

Ongoing political turmoil in the United States captures the democratic experiment in all its glory, along with its follies, with pointers for India.

As Prime Minister Narendra Modi completes seven years at the helm, India is gasping for breath on economic and social fronts.

Under the guise of simplifying our lives, software engineers have enslaved us to their innovations. As a society, are we ready for these new rulers and their social disruptions?