India, July 1 -- If AI can write reports, generate code, analyse data, and respond to complex queries within seconds, what will continue to distinguish a human professional?

Higher education has weathered disruption before. When the internet arrived, many predicted it would make universities obsolete. It did not - but it changed them in ways that took a generation to absorb fully. What we are living through now feels different. Not because the technology is louder or faster, though it is both, but because it strikes at something more fundamental: the question of what a university is actually for.

Artificial Intelligence is no longer a horizon we are moving towards - it is the ground we are already standing on. In classrooms, laboratorie...