Education has always reimagined itself around its tools — the slate, the blackboard, the overhead projector, the internet. Each expanded the reach of the classroom, but none disturbed its moral core: the slow, human process of thinking. Generative AI has done just that. For Indian students, this new phase isn’t unfolding in well-funded laboratories or research hubs; it’s happening on hostel beds, between part-time shifts and semester deadlines, on the same phones where they stream reels and lecture notes. OpenAI’s new initiative Chats for Students in India captures this pivot vividly. What it does offer is a mirror — showing how students are already using AI to study, build projects, plan careers, even navigate hostel life. The initiative is a collection of 56 real use-cases—short, re

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