Abstract: As India reimagines its education system in the wake of the National Education Policy (NEP) 2020, digital technologies have emerged as both promise and peril . The policy advocates the use of disruptive technologies, online education, and AI-driven assessment systems, reflecting a shift toward techno-solutionism in educational reform. However, as this episode of the Building Educated India podcast reveals, these developments risk deepening existing inequalities, compromising pedagogical relationships, and transforming students into data commodities. In conversation with Dr. Sulagna Chattopadhyay, Professor Anita Rampal, a renowned educationist and former Dean at the University of Delhi, offers a sobering critique of the policy’s underlying assumptions. Drawing from her decades-long engagement with curriculum development, public schooling, and democratic learning, Professor Rampal challenges the reduction of education to mere information delivery and warns of the long-term dangers of surveillance-driven, market-centric models of learning.