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  "title": "The Generational Bet: Will India Build the AI Age or Scroll Through It?",
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  "thesis": "India has the youngest large population on Earth, deep software talent, and cheap AI-assisted tools, but the attention economy has trained a generation to consume before it creates. The next few years are a compounding bet on whether young Indians use AI to build, learn, and solve problems or remain primarily passive consumers.",
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