Abhishek Jain

What a Chola-era Dam Can Teach Us About AI’s Future

Somewhere around the second century CE, near present day Thanjavur, a Chola king named Karikala put thousands of labourers to work sinking unhewn stone into the sandy bed of the...
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Degrees Without Destiny: The Great Indian Placement Illusion

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...
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The Fresher Crisis Nobody Is Talking About

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...
Education 
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Degrees Without Skills: India’s Silent Crisis

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....
Education 
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Stop Building Toys

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...
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After the Summit, the Hard Work Begins

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...
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AI and the Great Decoupling

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...
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Elon Musk and the Age of Abundance

Musk’s vision of a world run by AI and robots promises plenty, but revives unsettling questions about power, purpose and who controls the future. At the recent World Economic Forum...
Foreign Affairs 
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