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We build for the world but own so little of it. What happens if tomorrow, political tensions cut off India’s access to global platforms like X and Meta? China’s building its own AI, chips, and apps — it’s time India did too. From funding research to keeping our best minds here, the time to act is now.
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hey everyone you know how Indian coders
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and engineers help run platforms like X
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Meta and LinkedIn however these
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platforms are owned by the other
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countries and not us and the world often
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cheers louder for Western ideas than
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ours what if one day due to political
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shifts or sanctions our access to these
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platforms are revoked india would be
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stuck it's time India builds its own
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tech like China's Deepseek AI to be free
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not just for users but for owners and
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leaders india is great at IT services
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tcs makes nearly $30 billion a year
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infosys and Repro are also major players
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with revenues of $18.6 billion and 11
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billion respectively in financial year
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24 but we are building other people's
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tech and not our own meanwhile China's
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Deep Sea created a killer AI for just 5
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million bucks owning their tech startups
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like Swiggy are cool but they are not
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making cuttingedge AI or chips we need
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to start building our own gamechanging
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tech to stand tall billions are pouring
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into Indian startups awesome but too
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much goes to apps like Baiju which got
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tons of cash for education and not
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future tech AI similarly big money has
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gone into Zeppto and Academy and Blinket
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focusing on delivery and edtech sectors
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china's different wayback projects like
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Deepseek AI to own their tech india's
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got to fund big ideas like AI robotics
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and chipm that screams made in India and
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competes worldwide starting a business
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in India easier than before but
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protecting ideas still tough years ago
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weak laws hurt a startup called XU they
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lost out because their tech wasn't safe
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and even now while initiatives like UDIM
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registration and the digital India
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mission have made people work better
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entrepreneurs struggle with approvals
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digital signatures and GSC registrations
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that often take weeks
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china's Hawaii nearly owns one lakh
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patent locking in their ideas india
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needs stronger laws so the innovators
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can build and own without fear india got
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tons of talents sundar Pichai runs
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Google and it's not just him satya
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Nadela leads Microsoft arvin Krishna
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heads IBM parag Agarwal was at Twitter
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and Vakup Tanija is the CFO of Tesla but
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thousands like two lakh in one year move
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to the US building their tech and not
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India's
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this hurts the country's freedom china
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brings back talent with big
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opportunities india needs to offer
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highquality jobs research labs and
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rewards to keep its geniuses here
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creating Indian platforms
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research makes tech happen but India
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spends less than 1% of its money on it
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isro's moon mission was amazing but
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super cheap compared to NASA china
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spends over $600 billion on research
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building stuff like Deep Seek AI india's
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got to pour way more into research to
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create its own tech and not borrow
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others
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india is huge with 1.4 4 billion people
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but diversity makes it hard to build one
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app for everyone china's WeChat works
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for everyone startups like Deart Help
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Farmers and Kissan Network connects farm
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produce to markets but India needs more
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apps that unite everyone from cities to
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remote villages so the country isn't
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dependent on foreign ones people in
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India love playing it safe steady jobs
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like Zoho which built a $10 billion
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company without big risks but to own its
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tech the country needs to dream big like
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China's deepseek destructing AI in the
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US PayPal's team fail a bunch before
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winning it's time to cheer bold ideas
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and learn from flops to build India's
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tech giants so how to get there first
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fund cutting edge research like AI
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second protecting ideas with strong laws
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third be bold take risks fourth create
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app for all over India from cities to
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villages and fifth keeping talent here
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with great opportunities so if sanctions
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hit X or meta India will be ready with
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its own platforms
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