When Prime Minister Narendra Modi, standing on the ramparts of the Red Fort, delivered his longest ever Independence Day speech, it was more than geopolitics on his mind. His call to action for self-reliance in technology through innovation had, at its heart, an earthy understanding of the unique path India has treaded over the decades. Every few decades, whenever India has faced a choice about technology, we have refused to take the long road. When much of the world was busy laying copper wires for landlines, we jumped straight to mobile phones. When credit cards were still being mailed to
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