What if India’s only path to becoming a superpower is a monster willing to tear down the very fabric from dehati mindsets to babus that keeps it stuck?
Leave the satellite numbers aside. SpaceX operated inside a rich U.S. aerospace ecosystem with access to capital, talent, NASA contracts, and prior tech. ISRO started from near-zero industrial base, got pennies by comparison, faced tighter governance and technology denials, and still built a full indigenous capability.
>be india
>get semiconductor plans from Noyce in the 60s
> make him run between 50 government offices
>watch him leave
>build your first chip fab in 1984
>let it burn down in 1989
>take 8 years to restart
>invite AMD for a $3B fab in 2005
>let their equipment sit at customs for months
>charge them storage fees
>force them to ship it back
>make Intel wait years for a policy
>hear Barrett say “you missed the window”
>announce a semiconductor policy in 2007 with tough
conditions and weak incentives
>get almost zero fabs
>hand out LOIs in 2013
>drown them in paperwork until they die
Amazing that instead of East Asia, AMD wanted to Make India its Semiconductor Manufacturing Hub and was investing 3 Billion$ in a Fab in India back in 2005 but it all fell apart just because,
When their Equipment came it got stuck at customs and wasn’t cleared leading to return!