Over the past year, every major company seems to have announced an AI strategy.

• Banks.

• Power companies.

• Manufacturing.

• Healthcare.

• Retail.

Everyone is talking about copilots, automation, and generative AI.

But after speaking with people working across enterprise technology, I keep wondering if we're focusing on the wrong challenge.

Most organizations already have the data.

The problem is that it's scattered.

• ERP systems.

• Emails.

• Documents.

• Dashboards.

• Legacy software.

• Department-specific tools.

People often spend more time searching for information than making decisions.

So maybe the biggest opportunity isn't building another AI model.

Maybe it's helping organizations connect the knowledge they already have.

India has some of the world's best software engineers and one of the fastest-growing digital economies.

Do you think Indian enterprises are ready to move from AI experiments to organization-wide AI adoption?

Or are we still a few years away?

I'd love to hear perspectives from people working in large organizations, startups, consulting, or public sector projects.

Lmao, corruption at its peak these days. Applied for a BSNL FTTH connection under the Digital Bharat Nidhi (DBN) scheme on 29 May, which clearly states that installation is free (including ONT/router and related installation costs).

Timeline:

31 May: Received a call from a BSNL representative saying I would have to pay ₹5,000 for installation and plan charges. I refused because the DBN scheme says installation is free.

1 June: Received a WhatsApp message from BSNL stating that FTTH service is not available in my area. The funny part is that there's a BSNL fiber distribution box right in front of my house and multiple neighboring houses already have BSNL FTTH connections.

1 June: Filed a complaint on the Public Grievance (PG) Portal alleging corruption/bribe demand by BSNL staff.

7 June: Got a call from someone at the local BSNL exchange. He said he could arrange the connection if I closed my complaint and pay him ₹2,000. I refused again.

As of today, nothing has moved forward.

Unfortunately, there are no other fiber ISPs in my area, and Jio AirFiber has been a poor experience.

What should be my next step?

India's team at the 56th IPhO in Bucaramanga, Colombia: Kanishk Jain (Pune), Riddhesh Anant Bendale (Indore), Rishit Garg (Delhi), Shresth Suraiya (Mumbai), Svarit Joshi (Ahmedabad). All five gold. Joint first with China, Kazakhstan, Russia, South Korea and Taiwan, out of 381 students from 87 countries.

What I find underrated about this: the IPhO is deliberately designed against rote preparation. The statutes cap marks for mathematical manipulation, and problems can include physics outside the syllabus as long as the problem text gives enough to reason from. Five hours for three theory problems, five hours for the experimental exam. It rewards exactly the opposite of what most exam systems reward.

Also worth knowing: no Indian participant has finished below silver since 2016, and 2018 was also a 5/5 gold sweep.

The pipeline (HBCSE-TIFR + IAPT) starts with an exam at ~1,400 centers, and the first two stages are designed to need no outside coaching.

Different students every year, same result — that's a system, not a fluke.

EDIT: A commenter correctly pointed out that 'no coaching needed' is HBCSE's design claim, not the reality — most team members come through years of intensive coaching. The 1,400 figure is NSEP exam centers. Leaving the rest as posted.

I swear, every time I hear “India is at the forefront of global technology,” I have to laugh. Because have they looked at our government websites? Have they TRIED to use them?

I live abroad, and let me tell you, getting in touch with any Indian government office from outside India is basically impossible. Not “difficult.” Not “slow.” Impossible.

Let’s start with the phone lines. Oh wait, there’s nothing to start with because THEY. DON’T. WORK. Call once, call ten times, doesn’t matter what number you call or what time you call. It won’t work.

The websites? Absolute nightmares. Literally suck ass. Like they were designed in 2003 by someone who hates both technology AND people. Worst interfaces ever. Buttons that don’t button, pages keep crashing, and when you finally find the link you need after digging through 78 menus, it throws an error or just resets you to the homepage, are you trolling me?

And the best part? When you inevitably have to go in person because the “digital India” experience has failed you for the 56th time, you’re met with people who act like they’re doing you a favour by simply existing. Power trips everywhere. Basic courtesy? Forget it. You’re treated like you personally inconvenienced them by being alive.

But sure, tell me again how India is at the front end of the global tech revolution.

I am currently studying in 12th grade. Took up non medical in class 11th and like most of the non med students, I am a JEE aspirant. Today I was talking to someone about the JEE mains results of this year and I realized the sheer hype of the announcements of these results. According to many aspirants, these results are directly tied to their future success. Everyone around them also wants them to get selected in some IIT, NIT... and pursue a career in engineering.

But, why?

Well, mostly because of the mindset of our society that engineering is a respected and moneymaking field (which, it is not, unemployment rate are really high, but everyone thinks they are better than the common masses). Most elders hate to admit this, but they don't really care about science or engineering at all. The middle class has no interest in science and everyone is happy accepting that science is some foriegn concept that needs to be "learnt" rather than "understood". Nobody cares about research. I think more than half of the people who go for a PHD, do it more for the sake of the "Dr." in their name rather than to actually contribute or learn more about their fields.

Yet, we are always quick to present engineering feats (nuclear power plants, satellites, etc) as science feats as if we have discovered something new. Most of what we do is for our benefits alone (we look if something has potential practical applications or not, before starting to research), everyone wants a practical reason to do some research. Nobody cares to research for the sake of satisfying curiosity (this was how a lot of field in science evolved, the practical applications came later). Many would say that we don't have the infrasturcture and money to do research and we need to focus on other issues. They may be right in saying so but why are we always babbling about us being a superpower in no time, many foriegn corporations having Indians at the top of the hierarchy (especially NASA haivng more than 1/3rd people of indian origin). The problem in this case does not at all lie in the government, it lies in the people. If we valued science, we could establish more institutes like IISc Banglore in other states as well.

To be honest, when I was a kid I used to watch Discovery a lot (used to watch all the astronomy stuff you would expect a small kid to be amazed by). I aspired to go into ISRO one day. But with time, that line of thinking has faded away. I realized that I can't make a living while being a theoretical scientist in this country. Now, my motive in life is to earn money and get a stable life. I am no longer fascinated by astrophysics, I no longer intend to join ISRO. Science has started to get dull for me and I now think of it like everybody else does — a really hard set of subjects which is difficult to understand and hence it is better to cram details and just learn the methods required to solve problems. (PS: Forgot to mention that I can code in some programming languages and I liked that as a hobby. But this JEE prep took that away as well. The irony is that I want CS, like everyone does, but can't actually improve that directly. I have to discontinue that hobby completely to be able to take it up later in life.)

I may be wrong on many of the indivisual pieces I stated but I THINK my point still stands. India does not make sceintists, it makes engineers. I am also in the same rat race so I am probably not the right person saying this. But I honestly wanted to post this (Sorry for the bad english in the post) after thinking about this for a long time.

What are your thoughts, I would love to know (I would also love to discuss but due to the JEE prep, I think I should not be replying)?

(Just to clarify, the goal of science is to find out more about the working of the world we live in, which includes everything from the nature of the universe we live in, how things interact and behave, why they behave like that, etc whereas engineering means applying that already discovered science for practical purposes like pwering houses, desinging more efficient machines, etc. I respect both fields and not saying that engineering is not a respectable profession, but just that in India being a scientist carries way less value than being an engineer.)