India, June 17 -- More than 2,500 years ago, students travelled from Babylon, Persia, and Greece to study at Takshashila not for certificates, but for bodha: the kind of awakened, applied understanding that lives in how you think, not what you have memorized. I think about that when I sit across from a hiring manager describing a fresh engineering graduate who aced every AI course on their resume and could not debug a real model under real pressure. The vocabulary was right. The understanding was not. India produces over 1.5 million engineering graduates annually. A NASSCOM-McKinsey report warns the country could face a shortfall of 1.4 million AI professionals by 2026 not because we lack engineers, but because too many of the engineers we ...