Policy commentary and rights advocacy by Vikas Gupta — IIM Ahmedabad alumnus writing on AI governance, economic opportunity, disability justice, and the institutions that shape young lives.
Structural inaccessibility in India's criminal justice system violates the rights of persons with disabilities — an argument that the design of detention itself becomes a pre-conviction sentence.
For millions of disabled Indians, justice is inaccessible not only in time but in understanding — physical, intellectual, and legislative barriers compound at every step of the legal process.
While private schools integrate AI tools, India's public education system is being left behind — deepening a digital divide that compounds across every year of schooling.
AI-driven optimisation in hiring and promotion is quietly recasting diversity as an inefficiency — with disproportionate consequences for persons with disabilities and other marginalised groups.
Democratic identity in India is fracturing along a fault line: the periodic voter and the continuous citizen are no longer the same person — and institutions are being built around the former.
When market logic colonises rights discourse, rights become priced goods — and the cost of being Indian is that the market almost always sides with those who can afford to pay.