“Pseudoscience is now well and truly institutionalized, and the participating IITs have signalled their willingness to trade their academic credentials for theological dogma… The spreading rot of pseudoscience at the IITs will encourage top-tier Indian talent to move to universities abroad that still see the line between decolonising and science.”

Vasudevan Mukunth, journalist, in an essay titled ‘A Trojan horse has breached the IITs’ (The Hindu, June 23)

“India ranks first in AI skill penetration at 2.8 times the global average, ahead of both the US and Germany, and its AI talent concentration has risen sharply over the past decade. India is no longer simply exporting engineers to the world. It is increasingly absorbing talent domestically as global capability centres, startups and major firms build AI teams inside the country. This signals that India is moving from being a back office for the AI age to becoming one of its principal operating theatres.”

Amitabh Kant, Chancellor of NIIT University (The Indian Express, June 30)

“More than twenty lakh students compete through a single examination. One paper. One day… NEET concentrates extraordinary stakes into a single examination. That structural reality increases the incentive for organised fraud.”

Shantanu Gupta, author, on the NEET-UG exam paper leak (The Print, June 5)

“So, who is a citizen? The US Supreme Court’s answer to the question was centred on belonging. Our Supreme Court opted for bureaucratic norms, linking belonging neither to fact, nor feeling, but as a good bureaucrat might demand — a few authoritative pieces of paper. That’s because the US Constitution advances liberty; ours constrains it.”

Arghya Sengupta, Research Director, Vidhi Centre for Legal Policy, in an essay titled ‘So, who is a citizen’ (The Times of India, July 7)