Tanuj Bhojwani

You might call him a “storyteller who codes”, but that description barely scratches the surface of Tanuj Bhojwani’s unique impact on India’s AI narrative. Armed with a chemical engineering degree from IIT Bombay and liberal arts training from Ashoka University and Young India Fellowship, Bhojwani bridges the gap between deep tech and human insight.

As the former head of People+AI, an independent initiative under EkStep, he quietly shaped India’s grassroots AI transformation. Bhojwani believes that “solutions must originate locally,” noting that village-level problems demand AI crafted by Indians for Indians. Under his leadership, People+AI built an open use case repository to catalogue and scale AI solutions for India-specific challenges.

He’s co-authored The Art of Bitfulness with Nandan Nilekani, a calm guide for navigating the digital today.

Beyond writing and speaking, his work at iSPIRT and the Digital Public Goods Alliance reflects a deep commitment to ethical AI in areas like digital identity, payments, data protection, and drones.

Currently, Bhojwani, who founded Sthaan.ai, is working directly with businesses to achieve their AI transformation goals. He believes that AI transformation must shift from being a huge leap of faith to a series of well-thought-out, measurable experiments.

Bhojwani’s team diagnoses challenges within organisations and builds bespoke tools and processes using AI. This hands-on approach allows for grounded, effective implementation of AI solutions that drive real change and don’t die as Pilots or PoCs.