India, May 27 -- A fourteen-year-old in Bengaluru builds a personalised news application at home. A student in Noida pairs Python with hardware to construct a working home assistant. A child in Pune has been writing functional websites since age ten. What distinguishes these students is not aptitude. It is access: the right tools, the right teacher, enough structure to make curiosity productive. The CBSE mandate to introduce AI and computational thinking from Class 3 onwards, beginning 2026-27, is an effort to institutionalise exactly that kind of access. The question it raises is which version of AI education the country ends up building: one that produces students who can think alongside these systems, or one that produces students who ha...