{"id":995830,"date":"2026-03-02T09:14:25","date_gmt":"2026-03-02T03:44:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=995830"},"modified":"2026-03-02T10:09:19","modified_gmt":"2026-03-02T04:39:19","slug":"indias-ai-reckoning-the-end-of-the-labour-arbitrage-era","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/03\/02\/indias-ai-reckoning-the-end-of-the-labour-arbitrage-era\/","title":{"rendered":"India\u2019s AI reckoning: The end of the labour-arbitrage era"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The recent sell-off in technology stocks was treated by many as just another bout of market volatility. But instead of thinking of it as a random market panic, it shows something else. <\/p>\n<p>In a matter of weeks, Indian IT companies lost nearly INR 6 lakh crore in market value. The Nifty IT index dropped more than 20 per cent, one of its sharpest corrections in decades. This was not triggered by a collapse in earnings. It was triggered by anxiety: AI is beginning to change the economics of the very model on which India\u2019s IT industry was built.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The recent sell-off in technology stocks was treated by many as just another bout of market volatility. But instead of thinking of it as a random market panic, it shows something else. In a matter of weeks, Indian IT companies lost nearly INR 6 lakh crore in market value. The Nifty IT index dropped more than 20 per cent, one of its sharpest corrections in decades. This was not triggered by a collapse in earnings. It was triggered by anxiety: AI is beginning to change the economics of the very model on which India\u2019s IT industry was built.<\/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-995830","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\/995830","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=995830"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/995830\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=995830"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=995830"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=995830"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}