India, March 2 -- The recent Galgotias University faux pas at the AI Summit comes as a vindication of all the critics who pointed fingers at the government policies and questioned the "Vikaas" that Modiji promised at the beginning of the decade. His promises made over the decades must now sound hollow to everyone, even the most hardcore Modi fan, though some would still dare to believe.

The brazenness of displaying foreign technology as indigenous, and that too in an era when Internet accessibility is ubiquitous, and information is at everyone's fingertips, just a few taps away, should confound anyone with a modicum of discomfiture. Does not the complete disconnect of even the teacher from reality strike anyone as surreal? If such is the...