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How GenAI Is Transforming Digital Campus Experiences in India

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Have you ever had the frustrating experience of rushing to the exam centre, already late and stuck in heavy traffic—and somehow reached, just to find out the exams have been postponed to another date? Have you struggled to understand your child’s learning patterns, strengths, or weaknesses? Or felt frustrated when school staff called about a payment mismatch, despite you doing everything right? What’s your take on gauging all the students on the same yardsticks, ignoring the fact that each child is unique and has their own strengths and weaknesses? These situations are common in today’s education system, where manual processes, outdated administration, and overwhelming workloads often lead to errors, delays, and inefficiencies. But this is changing rapidly.  Thanks to AI With the rise of Generative AI (GenAI), many of these problems will soon become rare—or disappear altogether. In the next few years, parents, educators, and students may look back and wonder how they ever managed w...

THE REAL VALUE OF A FIVE-RUPEE COIN (A true story that still teaches me something today)

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  What’s the value of a five-rupee coin? Most days, almost nothing. You can’t buy a chocolate with it anymore.  It’s the kind of coin we forget in pockets, ignore at billing counters, or drop in donation boxes.  But there are real instances that make you understand its value - like when you are short of five rupees while you're buying or when a bus conductor insists on exact change. Something similar happened to me once. And on that day, this tiny, ordinary coin became priceless—far beyond its face value.  It taught me a simple lesson of life: never value anything by its face value. The Day Everything Came Down to Five Rupees. It was a tiring Friday afternoon, and I was standing in a long queue at a local SBI branch.  My purpose was simple: buy a demand draft to pay my banking exam fees. “Bank exams? Friday evening? Standing in a queue?” It sounds strange today. But to understand this, you have to travel nearly two decades back— a time when PhonePe or Goog...

Fear of AI Killing Jobs?

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  ChatGPT : Today’s buddy, tomorrow’s rival… and your best colleague the day after! There’s no denying it— AI is completely shaking up the current job market , especially in some of the most lucrative IT and service sectors.   It’s rapidly replacing programming roles , and many once high-paying, high-demand jobs—such as content writing , graphic design , customer support , and data analysis —are already feeling the pressure.   Today, even a semi-skilled person can multitask effortlessly using AI tools that simplify what once required deep expertise.   Just think about it.   Building a website once meant weeks of coordination between writers, designers, and developers. Countless meetings, revisions, testing, approvals—remember that?   Now, AI can do it in minutes. A few refinements here and there, and it’s ready to host .   Earlier, developing software required top-notch programmers and a team of testers working tirelessly,  probably taking many ...