New Delhi: As artificial intelligence redraws the global balance of power, India has quietly but decisively entered the foundational layer of this transformation. At the heart of this moment stands BharatGen, India's sovereign generative AI programme – built from the ground up for the country's languages, culture, governance needs, and societal realities. And behind BharatGen's rise lies a sustained, strategic push by the Department of Science & Technology (DST), which has helped India do what only a handful of nations have managed so far: build its own foundational AI models. That effort reaches a defining milestone with the upcoming announcement…