India's universities are now competing to commercialise research, work with industry, and produce graduates able to start businesses.

India has nothing to gain from defending a programme that exploits its citizens, discredits their achievements, and harms its own standing.

For decades, institutions have been pressured to mirror Western universities. US university system has its strengths, but India should not copy its weaknesses

AI can provide every child with a personalised tutor that speaks their mother tongue, adapts to their pace, and presents ideas through tailored pathways

Next revolution will come from smaller models, specialised models, reasoning systems, neurosymbolic AI, edge AI, agentic workflows.

Too much of Indian life sciences still operates as if the country’s highest calling is to serve as a low-cost execution arm for others

When the idea of soul is reduced to data, something essential to being human is quietly erased

India’s educational system needs an urgent, fundamental reset to encourage creativity and innovation and to avoid AI-generated slop

The cyberwar has already begun — and India is not responding at the level the threat demands

Trump seeks visible victories, which creates room to separate substance from optics for those who recognise the distinction

AI is now forcing a reckoning, because the playing field has shifted, and for the first time in centuries, India has the tools to build its own future

The competition will not be won by those who build the largest models, but by those who design intelligence that works under real-world constraints

Domestic entrepreneurs, and not returnees, have led the country’s economic transformation. Policy must prioritise nurturing domestic talent

India doesn’t need to wait for institutions to take cues from western gatekeepers. The next generation is already innovating — and is not asking for permission

When systems are built for hundreds of millions of people, efficiency becomes mandatory, inclusion critical, and cost discipline the engine of innovation

The reality is that progress will come from solving real problems, not from joining the race to build the next giant model

New York mayor-elect’s campaign saw the community return to back the Democratic Party, the move driven by a need for respect and belonging

One tweet from Washington could silence a billion Indian voices. New Delhi needs to look beyond WhatsApp and Meta

True reform would have addressed the green-card backlog. But the US’s message that foreign talent is expendable has reversed brain drain, which benefits India

Walking through the courtyards of the old Nalanda I thought about Manjhi’s ridge again — the chiseled rock, the village of dreamers, and this reborn university

From regulatory reforms to rewarding research and discoveries instead of patients treated, the existing ecosystem needs many changes to be future-ready

The Trump administration’s decision to impose a $100,000 fee on new H-1B visa applications stems from legitimate concerns about wage suppression and job displacement.