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[Nirupama Menon Rao 🇮🇳 @NMenonRao]

You are right about one thing: recent events have exposed uncomfortable vulnerabilities.

But India’s answer cannot be to swing from dependence on one pole to dependence on another.

The lesson of tariffs, technology restrictions, sanctions pressure and the deaths of Indian sailors is not that India chose the wrong great power.

It is that strategic autonomy remains unfinished business.

[kris gopalakrishnan @kris_sg]

Thanks for the right perspective.

[Nirupama Menon Rao 🇮🇳 @NMenonRao]

The defence of Indian IT services misses the larger point.

Nobody seriously expected TCS or Infosys to become OpenAI. These firms generated exports, created jobs, earned foreign exchange and helped stabilise India’s external accounts. By those measures, they have been spectacularly successful. They helped underwrite much of our economic rise.

But explaining why Indian IT did not build frontier AI is not the same as explaining why India did not.

China also had employment challenges, development gaps and vast numbers entering the workforce. Yet it produced firms operating at the technological frontier while continuing to absorb labour at scale.

The real question is not whether Indian IT fulfilled its purpose. It did. The question is whether India built an ecosystem capable of producing world-leading innovation in strategic technologies.

For three decades we became highly skilled participants in other people’s technological revolutions. We adapted, integrated, serviced and scaled. Far less often did we originate.

As AI becomes as strategically important as energy, semiconductors and telecommunications, countries that create foundational technologies will shape the rules. Those that only implement them may remain dependent on others.

India should be proud of what its IT industry achieved. But pride should not become complacency or defensiveness . The challenge before us is to ensure that a nation of India’s scale and ambition is present not only in the marketplace of technology, but also at its frontiers.

[Mohandas Pai @TVMohandasPai]

‘Mythos’ and ‘Fable’ deliver a reality check: India needs AI sovereignty and supply-chain resilience – Firstpost. Folks please see @utpal_kumar1 https://t.co/fWBMm5TDHR

[Anuradha Tiwari @talk2anuradha]

The first step is to create policies for reverse brain drain.

China did it in 2008 with Thousand Talents Plan. It offered relocation awards, research funding, new labs to attract overseas talent. Within a decade, program attracted 7000 people.

We need something similar ASAP!

[BJP @BJP4India]

ये है नए भारत की नई मुंबई का अद्भुत ड्रोन व्यू...

मुंबई के तट पर खड़ा यह अद्भुत इंफ्रास्ट्रक्चर सिर्फ सड़कें और फ्लाईओवर नहीं हैं, बल्कि उस सोच का प्रतीक है, जो भारत को विश्वस्तरीय सुविधाओं से जोड़ रही है।

जो कभी कल्पना थी, वह मोदी सरकार में आज हकीकत है! 🇮🇳

[Open Source Intel @Osint613]

Trump : This morning’s attack on Beirut should not have happened, particularly on a special day when we are so close to a Peace Deal with Iran. Israel has the right to defend itself against threats, but the attack it was responding to was very small and meaningless, nobody was hurt, injured, or killed, and should not disrupt this important process. We are very close to a Deal that will bring peace to the region, including to Lebanon, and all sides should stand down. There should be no more attacks by Israel anywhere in Lebanon, but there should also be no more attacks by any other party, including Hezbollah, against Israel. This could be the beginning of a long and beautiful peace — Let’s not blow it!

[Rajiv Malhotra @RajivMessage]

Agreed about Kant and other babus. But the industrialists drove the govt policy in a self serving direction, so BOTH are culpable.
Notice how Pai constantly evades discussing the issues I have raised consistently since the early 2000s - that tech giants must allocate at least 10% to fundamental R&D in tech. Each time he has responded by insulting me personally as a way to evade the topic, and protecting his peers.

[Kanwal Sibal @KanwalSibal]

FCRA is India’s domestic law.

Foreign funding for missionary work in India should not be allowed.

Hinduism does not believe in conversions. It is overwhelmingly the majority faith in India.

Hindus are primarily the target of conversions.

This is a form of assault on the majority faith.

We should stand firm on this and reject any intrusion into our internal affairs.

The US is not being secular in seeking to promote Christian lobbies in India.

[Frontalforce 🇮🇳 @FrontalForce]

“The RSS is not a political organization, but it will do anything for the country. 🔥

Ram Janmabhoomi and Article 370 are not political issues; they are matters concerning the country's unity and integrity.”

RSS Chief Mohan Bhagwat

[The Directorate- Clandestine @Delta_SquadAnex]

They're the ones sinking it.

[Rajeev Mantri @RMantri]

It is very curious and strange how a loud and foul mouthed section of the online mob keeps attacking India’s IT industry.

Why would you expect a services focused business to “get into” product development? It is very, very difficult to do both these things in the same organization. It is like asking a land animal to fly or a bird to swim.

Anybody who has run a business of reasonable size will recognize the difficulties of doing this. The constant ranting against IT companies just goes to show, how stupid and disconnected from reality the loudmouths are. https://t.co/0s1FhogGgc

Why don’t these people ever train their guns on the mega conglomerates? Why don’t Jindal, Reliance and other groups ever get questioned? https://t.co/UAKfe1wxRG If anything those in a conglomerate model should be able to deploy capital with more agility in new industries. And these groups routinely do it in old economy sectors.

But they too should be left to their own devices (as long as they don’t abuse their influence to trample and crush new age industries and startups) and the answer to their disproportionate power and sway is ease of doing business, reduction in barriers to entry, stronger regulatory institutions in areas like competition monitoring - but again, why aren’t these mega conglomerates ever questioned by the online commentariat?

I think the answer is that unlike their Mumbai and Delhi based billionaire brethren, Bengaluru’s IT company founders have remained more egalitarian, more approachable, less flashy and more grounded. This makes them soft targets to the pathetic pillorying by the deranged online mob runners - despite their great wealth and influence (honestly earned, unlike some other business dynasties), they appear to be “one of us” and hence, easy to villainize and even abuse.

There is a reason Mafatlal did not enter steel industry. There is a reason Reliance did not enter the IT industry.

The same holds for IT industry. Why vilify them in this condemnable manner?

Different businesses and new industries will require new entrepreneurs to build and create the way. And I can tell you one thing - the way founders and executives of IT industry have taken to not just entrepreneurship beyond IT sector but even angel investing and backing Indian venture capital funds, it is a golden example for other industrialists and business owners in India.

[Shankar Sharma @1shankarsharma]

@sandeep_PT But why is a trade deal so desirable from India's stand point anyway?

[Frontalforce 🇮🇳 @FrontalForce]

BIG

The Odisha Cabinet has approved the renaming of 64 places across 26 districts to restore their authentic Odia spellings and pronunciations.

Several names altered during the colonial era will now reflect their original linguistic and cultural identity.

Example- Balasore will become Baleshwar 🔥

[Lt Gen H S Panag(R) @rwac48]

I concur. US has been doing it. A former retired DGMO was denied visa to US for having overseen CI operations in J&K.

[Samir Saran @samirsaran]

#DataSovereignty is now a sharper negotiation. If access can be pulled on national security grounds, the trade of data will need a hard revision as well. Leverage sits with whoever holds the switch. Don’t give it away cheap. Focus on capability, not access 4/n

[Sudarshan News @SudarshanNewsTV]

जब तूती बोलती थी आजम खान की, तब हिंदुओं के शादी - ब्याह में घुस जाते थे उन्मादी आताताई..
किसी महिला से होती थी छेड़छाड़ तो किसी को उठा कर ले जाते थे अपने साथ..
रोकने - टोकने वाले सनातनी का कर दिया जाता था तालिबानी अंदाज में कत्ल..
छांगुर पीर के इलाके में नाबालिग संतान गंवा चुकी एक मां योगी काल में लटकता देखना चाहती है अरविंद के कातिलों को फाँसी के फंदे पर..

#Balrampur #UP @balrampurpolice @myogiadityanath @BJP4UP

[Vijay Thirumalai @vijaythirumalai]

Blaming India's leaders like Infy, TCS, Zoho for not building an LLM is the most low IQ /lazy pushback for India not having sovereign LLMs

They sent millions of Indians abroad giving us valuable remittances, gave us the confidence that we can build world class service companies & whatever middle class we have is largely because of IT/ ITES companies, basically got us from 0-1

No one in US blames IBM/ Accenture/ Deloitte for not building LLM/ no one in Canada blames Constellation for not building Chatgpt

Forget having gratitude, Indian Intellectuals have this unique disease of berating leaders who have delivered - Come on guys we can do better

[Mohandas Pai @TVMohandasPai]

My friend please go ahead and do this yourself. You are a big guy. Take up your own challenge! You forget 3 years from now what the world will be. You forget the 2tr$ investment the US is making right now, with 1 Tr$ this year. The speed of change, the huge investment is unparalleled anywhere. Try to understand this before you comment.
As for us we are investing hugely in AI starts up, have a portfolio of 25 AI first start ups, have seen 1000+ AI startups over last 9 months.

Not sitting still passing loose comments like so many loose heads in social media. We are putting our money where our mouth is.

[Sidharth @Cloudwatch199]

Bashing Indian IT service companies for not building frontier AI is fair.

But they were built for services.

The real question is much sharper:

Where is Tata’s Qwen?

Qwen came from Alibaba — a company smaller than the listed Tata empire.

Where is Ambani’s ERNIE? ( Baidu )
Where is Mahindra’s Hunyuan?
Where is Adani’s Pangu?
Where is L&T’s defence AI foundation model?
Where is Birla’s industrial AI model?

China’s established corporate giants are building frontier models.

Alibaba built Qwen.
Baidu built ERNIE.
Tencent built Hunyuan.
Huawei built Pangu.
ByteDance built Doubao.
iFLYTEK built Spark.

So stop gaslighting people with “India lacks capital.”

India does not lack capital.
India does not lack engineers.
India lacks a billionaire class willing to risk serious money on frontier AI.

There is money for weddings, cricket, retail, ports, media, and political access.

But when it comes to building India’s Qwen, suddenly everyone becomes a cautious accountant.

That is the scandal.