Jagriti Sharma

everyday deciding to buy my own flowers
St Stephen’s ‘19. Ashoka YIF’20.
Currently a Digital Desh Fellow

[Jagriti Sharma @jagsha97]

@GulatiSinghJ @ArthurMacwaters Oh absolutely! There’s such a gap when it comes to the intangible Indian artefacts. As an Odissi dancer, one thing I know is there’s plenty of knowledge residing in bodies passed down through oral traditions between the student and the teacher. It’s a world worth diving into.

[Jagriti Sharma @jagsha97]

The bottleneck in Punjab is not imagination. AI made that easy.
It is consensus: approvals, litigation, everyone playing devil’s advocate.

A machine can give us possibility, not permission.

#digitaldesh #punjab #AIinIndia
@GulatiSinghJ @peakxvpartners @BlumeVentures @BrijDam

[Jagriti Sharma @jagsha97]

Doctors get patient reports from #WhatsApp groups, farmers track MSP prices and schemes, school administrators announce updates.

We love our baatein, business and bonding, only that it’s on a 6x3 screen now.
#digitaldesh #punjab #TechinIndia

[Jagriti Sharma @jagsha97]

A Khanna shopkeeper found the seam in every UPI app's incentives and started mining it. Cashback turned into funding.
The app got a customer. He got his seed capital.

On the ground, fintech adoption is feeding another economy in Bharat.
#FintechIndia #UPI #DigitalDesh #Punjab

[Jagriti Sharma @jagsha97]

The range of screen time in Punjab ranged between 4 minutes (Phillaur, farmer, 38 years) and 8hr and 49 mins (Jalandhar, student, 19). And Bharat wakes up at 29 years of age.
What is the gap telling us?

[Jagriti Sharma @jagsha97]

A research dean raving about India’s innovation future, a cabbie whose phone pings differently for each app, and a farmer selling produce online walk into a bar. They walk out: the dean fears data theft, the cabbie still wants cash, and the farmer won’t share his bank details.

[Jagriti Sharma @jagsha97]

6k followers with 5 million views. A Punjab wedding decorator runs his Pulsar on the streets of Ludhiana but doesn’t know he can monetise from it. That is the power most Indians feel under confident about.
#digitaldesh #punjab

[Jagriti Sharma @jagsha97]

Education and Healthcare are the first sectors, named to benefit most from AI, especially if tech companies come together.
Punjab's doctors and teachers are still filing requests for WiFi.

@GulatiSinghJ @RajanAnandan @sanjeevsanyal @BKartRed @BrijDam

[Jagriti Sharma @jagsha97]

I went to Punjab knowing anthropology and policy but not tech. Turns out, most of the people I spoke to, were in the same position.
We’re all standing outside the vocabulary of something that has already changed us.

[Jagriti Sharma @jagsha97]

@jialiiiz So good to see art and tech come together. Congratulations!

[Jagriti Sharma @jagsha97]

Pets in a town 30kms from Ludhiana eat Japanese food.
We’re still deciding if we want to share our new contact. Perhaps at the launch.
#digitaldesh #itsnotsushi

@GulatiSinghJ @RajanAnandan @sanjeevsanyal @BKartRed @BrijDam

[Jagriti Sharma @jagsha97]

“Agar mil jaaye toh aa jaana, nahi toh mat aana.”
Phillaur gave our team its compass for the drive. Show up when it comes together. Don’t force it if it doesn’t.

In frame- Satluj and Beas coming together.
#digitaldesh

[Jagriti Sharma @jagsha97]

@muditkhurana @RajanAnandan @GulatiSinghJ We met a young man of Ludhiana who thought Tun Tun Tun Sahur was the name of a village nearby.

[Jasminder Singh Gulati @GulatiSinghJ]

Bharat spends 33% of their time on the phone.

Every single day.

#ComingSoon #DigitalDesh #AI #Punjab

[Jagriti Sharma @jagsha97]

Patiala farmer, 25, pays ₹2000 for Claude and learns hydroponic farming. Even Dario might be surprised.

[Jasminder Singh Gulati @GulatiSinghJ]

Practice you craft everyday. Keep the Sundays' for your art.

#ComingSoon #DigitalDesh #Punjab #AI

[Jagriti Sharma @jagsha97]

Jagraon bakery serves kimchi flavoured Flax Seed sticks. Towns of india aren’t catching up anymore, it seems they’re arriving first.
#digitaldesh

[Jagriti Sharma @jagsha97]

Algorithms have been curating our shelves for some time now.
‘What does the machine think I’ll want’
And we are calling it personal taste because it still is so.

[Jagriti Sharma @jagsha97]

AI in Punjab was embraced only in corners where it expanded their agency, and resisted when that control was taken away.

It was convenience over exposure; the digital threshold was hardly ever the same.
#digitaldesh

[Jagriti Sharma @jagsha97]

The most interesting stories about tech aren’t so much about the technology. They’re becoming more about the moment they find a new tool and bend it around an old habit.

And suddenly, trust, ingenuity, and culture are negotiating with each other.