{"id":1011672,"date":"2026-06-02T10:10:39","date_gmt":"2026-06-02T04:40:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1011672"},"modified":"2026-06-02T10:47:42","modified_gmt":"2026-06-02T05:17:42","slug":"can-ai-pass-gandhis-talisman-inside-indias-rs-25530-crore-sarthak-pds-gamble","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/06\/02\/can-ai-pass-gandhis-talisman-inside-indias-rs-25530-crore-sarthak-pds-gamble\/","title":{"rendered":"Can AI pass Gandhi\u2019s talisman? Inside India\u2019s Rs 25,530-crore SARTHAK-PDS gamble"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the closing days of his life, Mahatma Gandhi offered the leaders of a nascent India a moral compass, famously known as his Talisman. \u201cRecall the face of the poorest and the weakest man whom you may have seen,\u201d he advised, \u201cand ask yourself if the step you contemplate is going to be of any use to him.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>For nearly eight decades, the Indian state has attempted to operationalise this empathy through the Public Distribution System (PDS) \u2014 a heavily subsidised logistical leviathan designed to ensure that no citizen starves.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the closing days of his life, Mahatma Gandhi offered the leaders of a nascent India a moral compass, famously known as his Talisman. \u201cRecall the face of the poorest and the weakest man whom you may have seen,\u201d he advised, \u201cand ask yourself if the step you contemplate is going to be of any use to him.\u201d For nearly eight decades, the Indian state has attempted to operationalise this empathy through the Public Distribution System (PDS) \u2014 a heavily subsidised logistical leviathan designed to ensure that no citizen starves.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[79,4,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1011672","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-pioneer","category-newspapers","category-the-pioneer"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1011672","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1011672"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1011672\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1011693,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1011672\/revisions\/1011693"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1011672"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1011672"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1011672"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}