Abhishek Jain

As IT hiring collapses, India’s universities stand exposed as assembly lines for jobs that no longer exist. Consider three names. Google. Facebook. Dell. Each of them was built inside a college dormitory. Google was a doctoral project at Stanford in 1996; its parent company is today worth over three trillion dollars. Facebook was a side experiment in a Harvard dorm in 2004; it now reaches half the planet. Dell began in a University of Texas dormitory in 1984, assembled by a nineteen-year-old...

As AI renders entry-level work obsolete, India’s education system risks producing graduates for jobs that no longer exist. Last week, I made a simple phone call. I was trying to help a young finance graduate - a bright kid, full of hope - find a job at a company I knew well. A BPO firm. The kind of company that used to hire hundreds of freshers every year. My friend, a senior leader there, heard me out. Then he said something I was not ready for. “We don't need freshers like that anymore.” He...

As other nations rebuild their entire knowledge systems for an AI-driven future, India remains trapped in incrementalism while leaving the deeper architecture of learning untouched. Picture a classroom. Thirty students. Bright faces, packed bags, parents who sacrificed holidays and savings to put them there. Now remove fifteen of them. Tell them that you studied hard, you passed your exams, you did everything right but are not ready for the world waiting outside this door. That is not a...