Vanshika Chhabra

Voice Arena and Hugging Face partner to launch open ASR evaluation for Hindi and Indian English Benchmarks decide what gets built. A model that scores well on the Open ASR Leaderboard gets adopted and iterated on, while capabilities the leaderboard does not measure tend not to improve. Much of the recent work on the leaderboard has gone into making the evaluation metrics more trustworthy: Held-out private splits.

The Dignity Of Difficult Watching: What We Owe Films Like 'Homebound' Through patient observation, emotional honesty, and visual poetry, Neeraj Ghaywan's Homebound achieves what cinema at its most powerful can accomplish: it changes how we see society.

Neeraj Ghaywan’s Oscar-shortlisted film Homebound operates as both an indexical document and a formal interrogation, a film that deploys cinematic excellence itself to make visible the mechanisms of structural violence. It reveals how marginalisation operates not through grand gestures but through spatial arrangements and the exhausting dailiness of having to prove one’s humanity.