The Next Digital Public Infrastructure: How India Plans to Make Artificial Intelligence a Public Utility
An influential opinion piece in The Hindu on July 31, 2026, by IAS officer Srivatsa Krishna, has advanced a provocative policy argument: that India should treat Artificial Intelligence the way it treated identity, payments, and data — as a Digital Public Infrastructure (DPI) to be commoditised and made near-free, rather than left to be monopolised…