Respected Shri Ashwini Vaishnawji,
Pranam.
I am Hemen Parekh, 93 years of age, writing to you from Mumbai.
I have spent the better part of a decade attempting to place a single idea before
the world's greatest technology leaders — Sundar Pichai of Google, Satya
Nadella of Microsoft, Bill Gates, and Elon Musk among them — across more
than 20 letters and emails.
None acted upon it.
I write to you today not in disappointment, but in vindication — because science
has just proven that the idea was right all along.
And because I believe India, under your stewardship, is the one nation capable of
turning this vision into civilisational reality.
The idea has two chapters, ten years apart.
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CHAPTER ONE : ARIHANT ( October 2016 )
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Inspired by Microsoft's then-breakthrough in speech recognition, I conceptualised
ARIHANT — named after the Jain ideal of the conqueror of inner vices — as a
smartphone-embedded AI system that would continuously listen to human speech,
transmit it to a central database called MIND READER OF HUMAN INTENTIONS,
and use Big Data analytics to detect and prevent harmful intent before it could
translate into harmful action.
ARIHANT was, in essence, a proposal to use AI as humanity's moral sentinel — not
to punish after the fact, but to intervene before harm occurred, while rigorously
protecting the innocent. I envisioned it working through the very IoE ( Internet of
Everything ) network that was then just emerging.
I published this on my blog on 21 October 2016:
https://myblogepage.blogspot.com/2016/10/fast-forward-to-future-3-f.html
I then sent it to technology leaders across the world. The world did not act. But
the world did not stand still either.
In the years that followed, speech recognition matured exactly as I predicted. AI
language models arrived. Neural interfaces moved from science fiction to clinical
trials. And on 10 March 2026 — a decade after ARIHANT — the University College
London published a study that changed everything.
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THE UCL BREAKTHROUGH : 10 MARCH 2026
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On the very same day that I conceived UNMAT, researchers at University College
London announced they had successfully reconstructed 10-second video clips of
what mice had watched — using nothing but recorded brain activity.
Not fMRI approximations, but single-cell neural recordings of unprecedented
precision
A dynamic neural encoding model mapped individual neuron responses to specific
visual frames, growing more accurate as more neurons were tracked.
The researchers made an observation of profound philosophical importance:
- the brain is not a faithful camera. It skews, warps, and edits what it perceives.
These deviations are not errors — they are the very signature of individual
consciousness, the cognitive fingerprint that makes each human mind
irreplaceable.
Full article:
https://interestingengineering.com/science/scientists-reconstruct-videos-mice-watched-brain-activity
Published in: eLife Journal — https://elifesciences.org/articles/105081
This was the scientific starting gun. ARIHANT had imagined decoding spoken
words.
UCL has now demonstrated decoding of visual thought itself.
The gap between these two points is not a chasm — it is a roadmap.
And it leads directly to UNMAT.
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CHAPTER TWO : UNMAT ( 10 March 2026 )
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UNMAT — Unified Natural Messaging App for Telepathy — is the natural
evolution of ARIHANT.
Where ARIHANT listened to spoken words, UNMAT reads thought directly.
Where ARIHANT sought to prevent harm, UNMAT seeks to dissolve the
very barriers that generate misunderstanding between humans.
At its core, UNMAT envisions:
• A BBI (Brain-to-Brain Interface) — non-implantable wearable hardware, issued
as a national utility
• A CO-THINKER AI layer — a personal AI agent that learns each person's unique
cognitive fingerprint, understands intent, and manages communication on their
behalf
• End-to-end Quantum Encryption — guaranteeing absolute, inviolable privacy of
every thought transmitted
• Universal Access — no registrations, no passwords, no apps, no devices. Just
thought.
The UCL finding is architecturally critical here. UNMAT's CO-THINKER must not
merely decode raw neural signals — it must honour each person's cognitive
individuality, their unique way of interpreting and colouring the world.
Two people witnessing the same sunset carry different neural movies of it
UNMAT must transmit not just the thought, but the texture of the thinker — which
is the very essence of human communication.
The phased roadmap is realistic:
→ By 2030: CO-THINKER as software layer riding existing infrastructure
→ By 2040: Dedicated BBI wearable hardware; smartphones become optional
→ By 2050: Full non-invasive Brain-to-Brain communication — pure telepathy
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WHY INDIA MUST LEAD THIS — AND WHY NOW
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Dear Shri Vaishnawji ,
I spent 10 years writing to Sundar Pichai, Satya Nadella, Bill Gates, and Elon
Musk. None responded with action. The world's richest technology companies,
sitting atop the very infrastructure that ARIHANT and UNMAT would one day
replace, had little incentive to disrupt themselves.
India has no such conflict of interest. India has every incentive.
Today, 1.4 billion Indians use communication platforms built entirely by American
companies — WhatsApp (Meta), Gmail (Google), FaceTime (Apple). India
generates vast data wealth and exercises zero sovereignty over the infrastructure
carrying it.
If India now designs and governs the foundational open protocol — UNMAT-P, as
HTTP was to the Web — India becomes the sovereign architect of 21st century
communication, not its tenant.
The strategic conditions are uniquely aligned today:
1. Neural decoding science has just crossed a historic threshold (UCL, March 2026)
2. India has the world's largest unified digital identity infrastructure (Aadhaar) —
the natural foundation for BBI identity
3. India AI Mission has seeded precisely the institutional capacity this requires
4. No nation has yet staked a claim to this territory
5. India's philosophy of Vasudhaiva Kutumbakam — the world is one family —
gives UNMAT a moral authority no Silicon Valley company can ever replicate
This is not merely a technology project. It is India's bid for Vishwa-Guru status in
the most consequential domain of the 21st century: how human minds connect
with one another.
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MY HUMBLE REQUEST
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I request that MeitY consider establishing an UNMAT Research Consortium as a
flagship project under India AI Mission, bringing together:
• IIT Bombay / Delhi / Madras — Neural interface and signal decoding
• AIIMS New Delhi — Neuroscience, cognitive safety, and ethics
• ISRO — Satellite mesh for universal rural coverage
• C-DAC — Open protocol development and India's sovereign stack
• TIFR / IISc — Foundational AI for the CO-THINKER layer
The initial investment for a 1,000-person adult volunteer pilot and protocol
definition is modest.
The civilisational return is without precedent in the history of Indian technology.
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ON GOVERNANCE AND TRUST
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A system that touches the most private space a human possesses — their own
mind — must be governed with constitutional seriousness. I propose that privacy
architecture be enshrined in legislation before any hardware deployment begins.
Government access to the content layer must be constitutionally prohibited; only
anonymised metadata permissible, under independent judicial oversight.
This commitment, made publicly and upfront, is what will make the world trust
India's UNMAT over any alternative that emerges. It transforms a technology
mission into a civilisational covenant.
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CLOSING THOUGHT
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Dear Shri Vaishnawji ,
I launched my blog on my 80th birthday, writing:
" There is just no time to look back. "
I write to you now, 13 years later, not looking back — but forward.
The UCL paper of 10 March 2026 did not just validate a decade of letters that went
unanswered. It fired the starting gun for a race that India is uniquely positioned
to win.
When a farmer in Vidarbha can share a thought as effortlessly with a scientist in
Silicon Valley as with a neighbour across the field — when language, literacy,
and poverty are no longer barriers to the meeting of human minds -
- India will have given humanity its greatest gift since the invention of zero.
I am available at your convenience to present the full framework, system
architecture, and phased roadmap in person.
With deepest respect and Jai Hind,
Hemen Parekh
10 March 2026,
Mumbai
www.hemenparekh.ai
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REFERENCES :
• ARIHANT — Original Blog Post ( 21 October 2016 ):
https://myblogepage.blogspot.com/2016/10/fast-forward-to-future-3-f.html
• UCL Breakthrough Study ( 10 March 2026 ):
https://interestingengineering.com/science/scientists-reconstruct-videos-mice-watched-brain-activity
• UCL Paper in eLife Journal:
https://elifesciences.org/articles/105081
• Author's Digital Avatar & Complete Blog Archive:
Reference :
https://myblogepage.blogspot.com/2026/03/unmat-my-chat-with-claude.html
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