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AI is teaching a generation to sound smart. That's not the same as being informed

India, Dec. 8 -- Artificial intelligence didn't storm into education. There was no grand moment when classrooms suddenly changed. Instead, AI arrived slowly - through shortcuts during late-night study... Read More


India risks becoming an AI rule-taker unless it builds standards fast

India, Dec. 1 -- Recently I reviewed a policy briefing circulated by an international standards consortium and followed it with a long exchange of emails with regulators and practitioners. One line st... Read More


When the market learns to think: How AI is rewriting India's economic consciousness

India, Nov. 24 -- Recently, while ordering dinner from the same neighbourhood restaurant I have trusted for years, I noticed something unsettling. The price of my usual dish had risen by nearly twelve... Read More


The forgotten Indian theory now powerfully driving the quantum age

India, Nov. 20 -- A hundred years ago, a young physics teacher in Calcutta quietly rewrote the way nature counts. On November 20, the idea he discovered-now known as Bose-Einstein statistics-turns 101... Read More


Colonisation Won't Come With Flags This Time - It Will Come With Code

India, Nov. 11 -- Most conversations around AI in India are positive - new apps, innovative startups, and rising productivity. That optimism is understandable. But beneath the excitement, a more serio... Read More


India's AI boom comes with a power bill

India, Oct. 27 -- Every question we often ask an AI system carries a hidden cost. Behind the digital magic of chatbots, image generators and predictive models, a quiet physical process unfolds - one t... Read More


Cities learning to think, but for whom?

India, Oct. 20 -- On a humid evening in Bengaluru, a stretch of road clears itself of traffic without a single policeman intervening. Sensors beneath the ground detect congestion forming a kilometre a... Read More


The Cage Without Bars

India, Oct. 13 -- For years, one image has stayed with me: a dog in a cage. At first it fights to escape, scratching at the bars and whining at the shocks that come without warning. Then, slowly, it s... Read More


The Algorithmic Afterlife: when your data refuses to die

India, Oct. 6 -- The cloud remembers what the river forgets In India, death has many rituals. Some are cremated by the river, some buried in silence and some left to the open sky. Yet across faiths a... Read More