India, March 7 -- Indian women now rank first in the world in AI skill penetration. Not first among emerging economies. Not the first in Asia. First globally, ahead of women in the United Kingdom, Germany, Israel, and every other country measured by Stanford University's Institute for Human-Centred AI.

This sentence would have been unthinkable a generation ago. When India won its independence, female literacy in India stood at 9% - a symptom of centuries of colonisation.

Three generations later, the granddaughters and great-granddaughters of women who won independence are building AI systems that serve the world. That arc, from 9% literacy to the global #1 in AI skill acquisition,  is among the most remarkable human capital transfo...