“Why India’s Civilisational Intelligence Will Outpace Silicon Valley’s Vision”, My Ind Maker, February 23, 2026
“In early 2026, the world witnessed something remarkable. At the India AI Impact Summit in New Delhi, Prime Minister Narendra Modi addressed leaders from over fifty nations with words that cut through a decade of Silicon Valley supremacism, “Some people see fear in AI, but India sees fortune and future in it. The real question today is not what AI can do, but what humans can do with it.”
These words were not mere political rhetoric. They were a civilisational declaration. They announced, quietly but unmistakably, that a billion-year-old culture built on Dharma, on righteous order, on the flourishing of all living beings, on wisdom rooted in Satya and Ahimsa, had entered the most consequential technological race in human history. And it had entered not as a consumer, not as an imitator, but as an architect with its own blueprint.
This essay argues that in the age of Artificial Intelligence, India’s Dharmic worldview is not a handicap but a profound competitive and moral advantage. That the Western, and specifically the American techno-capitalist model of AI development, is producing a form of civilisational poison, what our ancestors would recognise as Asuri (demonic) intelligence: intelligence without conscience, power without purpose, wealth without Dharma. And that India, if it holds its nerve and its roots, is positioned to offer the world not just a product, but a path…….”
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