The Karmayogi in the age of AI: Why ethics must be the operating system of governance

Something remarkable happened in India over the past decade that we often forget to tell ourselves. We built digital public infrastructure at a scale no other country has achieved-and made it available to everyone, not as a commercial product, but as a public good. Aadhaar gave over a billion people a digital identity. UPI now processes over ten billion transactions a month. When the pandemic came, we delivered vaccines to a billion people using architecture that existed only because we had built it over the previous decade.