India, June 7 -- Ask a child at the dinner table: "If your eyes were at the back of your head, what are three things you could do that you cannot do today?"

Then wait.

After the imaginative responses, ask another question: "How could you achieve those same things even though your eyes are in the front?"

In negotiating that constraint, the child invents. They adapt. They search for alternatives. What is being exercised is not recall, but mental flexibility.

That distinction matters deeply to India's future in the age of Artificial Intelligence (AI).

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