Smartphones and AI are remaking rural India

IT IS A warm afternoon in Nagepur and Bahadur Kumar is working at the power loom. Opposite the workshop stands his two-storey, half-finished house. Outside it are five goats, a motorbike, his wife and his 22-year-old son, Karan, who explains that he is busy doing a science degree at a local university while preparing for exams for a government job