KERALA RISING · FROM EXPORTING PEOPLE TO EXPORTING IDEAS THE ETHICAL FLOOR Lawful under the DPDP Act, opt-in and consentfirst, minimal in what it collects, blind to affiliation and to clinical data, never punitive, engineered for equity, and honest about its own failures; because a civic AI the public cannot trust is not worth building, and trust is earned by constraint, not asserted by intention. 297