Lessons from AadhaarIndia’s Aadhaar experiment supplies ample empirical evidence of why a purely technocratic approach to education and examinations is dangerous. To unleash this exact philosophy onto the country’s education and examination ecosystem is to misdiagnose the disease entirely. Over the years, there has been a systematic destruction of university autonomy, the politicisation of educational appointments, while public education has been hollowed out. India’s education system puts a premium on rote memorisation, which makes question papers prone to being easily leaked. Nilekani may be a brilliant manager of corporate systems and digital infrastructure, but education is not a software platform.