The Silent AI Revolution Nobody in India Is Talking About Yet
The tea stall at the corner of the street opens every morning at six. Steam rises from chipped glasses, the radio crackles with old Hindi songs, and a man in a faded shirt scrolls through his phone while waiting for change. From the outside, it looks like any other morning in any other Indian city. But if you look closely at that phone screen, you might catch a glimpse of something else entirely—lines of code, dashboards, predictive graphs. A quiet future unfolding in plain sight. India’s next AI revolution isn’t announcing itself with billboards or headlines. It’s happening softly, in rented rooms, on second-hand laptops, between power cuts and chai breaks. And most people haven’t noticed yet. When the Future Doesn’t Look Like a Big City Anymore For years, we were told innovation lived in glass buildings and metro skylines. Bengaluru, Hyderabad, Gurugram—the names became shorthand for ambition itself. But something has shifted. The future has started slipping into places that do...