(The Hedgehog Review) – India’s digital systems are built not to profit from users but to govern them.

India today sits at a curious intersection of technological optimism and political anxiety. At a time when liberal democracies are scrambling to regulate Big Tech and authoritarian regimes are deepening algorithmic control, India’s digital state-building project occupies a category of its own. In the world’s largest democracy, where 1.4 billion people navigate deep social inequalities, infrastructural deficits, and postcolonial legacies, the project of digital governance has become nothing less than a redefinition of what it means to be a citizen, a subject, and a state. (Read More)