A 'Make in India' achievement

A quiet revolution is underway in India that could upend the notion that Indians are tech adopters, not innovators

India’s Techade: Digital Revolution and Change in the World’s Largest Democracy

Author: Nalin Mehta

Publisher: Westland

Pages: 184

Price: Rs 599

While the world media is flooded with headlines about how America’s “Big Tech” companies such as Amazon, Microsoft, Google, Apple and Meta are dominating the world, which prods us to think that India is only an adopter and user of tech invented by others, a quiet revolution has been underway in India that could change all such notions. Nalin Mehta’s book (I guess the word “Techade” in the title is supposed to be an acronym for “Tech Decade”) describes this silent revolution. It’s