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Sunday Essay — The Delhi Convocation, and What Its Fifty Certificates Cannot Fix

India's mobile networks are mid-transition to AI-managed control loops; the public response has been fifty certificates after a one-month course. The arithmetic does not close — 380,000 operational workers need meaningful retraining by 2030, and cohort-based convocations are theatre for the annual report. What will actually work is paid, on-shift reskilling anchored to a live network problem, which is also the pattern that built India's field-engineering workforce in the first place.