On 21 June 2026 we found India's first Bengali-language AI Centre of Excellence in Siliguri. We are inviting the Government of your state, your ministry, your institution to participate as a founding partner — or simply to be present on the day.
২১ জুন ২০২৬-এ আমরা শিলিগুড়িতে ভারতের প্রথম বাংলা-ভাষাভিত্তিক AI উৎকর্ষ কেন্দ্র প্রতিষ্ঠা করছি। আপনার রাজ্য সরকার, মন্ত্রক বা প্রতিষ্ঠানকে প্রতিষ্ঠাতা অংশীদার হিসাবে — অথবা কেবল দিনটিতে উপস্থিত হিসাবে — আমন্ত্রণ জানাচ্ছি।
The first time I sat in a room and listened to colleagues in Bangalore describe the artificial-intelligence roadmap for India, I realised something that has stayed with me through the twelve months that produced this institution: not a single sentence of that roadmap mentioned my home.
Eastern India was an absence. Bengal — the region that produced India's first Nobel laureate, its first IIT, its first modern university, and the world's fifth-most-spoken language — was simply not in the conversation that will determine where the country's twenty-first-century jobs, capital, and intellectual capital concentrate.
What is recoverable, and what this Centre is about, is the next decade. The AI economy is not yet built. The institutional architecture for Bengali-language AI is not yet in place. The producers of the foundation models, the datasets, the safety frameworks, and the regional capacity have not yet been named. The window in which Bengal can move from absence to leadership in the language-AI build-out for twenty-seven crore Bengali speakers is open today and is closing fast.
On the twenty-first of June, two thousand and twenty-six, the SARGVISION AI Centre of Excellence for Eastern India opens its doors in Siliguri. It is the institution that consolidates the foundational Bengali-AI infrastructure. It is the institution that anchors the AI economy of the world's fifth-most-spoken language. It will exist whether the reader agrees or not. With the reader's contribution, it will exist sooner, be larger, and serve its public better.
I am writing to invite you to be present on the day. There are no speeches to applaud and no ribbons to cut. There is a foundation stone to lay, a document to release, and a public to whom the Centre's commitments will be made openly and on the record.
বাংলার দরজা বন্ধ হয়ে আসছে। কেন্দ্রটি সেই দরজা খোলার লিভার। এই উদ্বোধনে আপনাকে আমন্ত্রণ জানাচ্ছি।
— Abhishek Gupta · Founder · Kolkata · May 2026