My mother never complained. Not once. She just showed up, every single day, without applause, without recognition. Everything I know about teaching — I learned watching her live. This Mother's Day, I want to tell her story.

AI gives students answers. It does not give them understanding. After 7 years of teaching NRI students from phonics to college, I have seen exactly what happens when AI replaces human teaching — and it is not what parents expect.

At 11pm, a parent in Singapore messaged me: "My daughter got 88% but her cousin in Pune got 96%. What is going wrong?" Here is the honest answer I gave her — and why this comparison was never fair to begin with.