Abhishek Jain

Artificial Intelligence is not merely a technology upgrade cycle but a once-in-a-generation test of managerial courage and operational discipline. In 1876, when Alexander Graham Bell demonstrated the telephone, a senior executive at Western Union reportedly dismissed it as an “idiotic toy” with no commercial possibilities. The company famously declined to buy the patent. A few decades later, that ‘toy’ had rewired global commerce. Similarly, in the early 1900s, automobiles were mocked by...

While the India AI Impact Summit signalled ambition, building credible AI capacity will be harder. For decades, India’s economic rise was measured in visible achievements in the form of highways laid, ports expanded and software exported to the world. But last week at Bharat Mandapam in New Delhi, the metric of national power shifted during the India AI Impact Summit 2026 - the first such global AI summit led by a nation of the Global South. Which saw delegations from over 100 countries. The...

Artificial intelligence is fast snapping our work-based social contract and populous countries like India will feel the strain first. For more than two centuries, modern societies have rested on a deceptively simple bargain. In exchange for labour, citizens received wages, dignity and a stake in the future. Work was not merely a means of survival but the organising principle of economic life, social status and political legitimacy. Governments taxed it and democracies were built around it....