Western coverage and expatriate commentary often miss India’s realities. Firsthand observation offers a different picture—and a case for engagement grounded in respect.
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AI companies must take responsibility for harm caused by their systems. India needs enforceable liability, meaningful safeguards, and accountability for reckless deployment.
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India's universities are now competing to commercialise research, work with industry, and produce graduates able to start businesses.
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India has nothing to gain from defending a programme that exploits its citizens, discredits their achievements, and harms its own standing.
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For decades, institutions have been pressured to mirror Western universities. US university system has its strengths, but India should not copy its weaknesses
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AI can provide every child with a personalised tutor that speaks their mother tongue, adapts to their pace, and presents ideas through tailored pathways
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Next revolution will come from smaller models, specialised models, reasoning systems, neurosymbolic AI, edge AI, agentic workflows.
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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
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When the idea of soul is reduced to data, something essential to being human is quietly erased
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India’s educational system needs an urgent, fundamental reset to encourage creativity and innovation and to avoid AI-generated slop
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The cyberwar has already begun — and India is not responding at the level the threat demands
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Trump seeks visible victories, which creates room to separate substance from optics for those who recognise the distinction
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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
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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
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Domestic entrepreneurs, and not returnees, have led the country’s economic transformation. Policy must prioritise nurturing domestic talent
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Across every major technology shift of the past half century, immigrants founded or co-founded a disproportionate share of the most valuable companies.
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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
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When systems are built for hundreds of millions of people, efficiency becomes mandatory, inclusion critical, and cost discipline the engine of innovation
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