When Indians started assembling mobile phones, people mocked us for doing "screwdriver giri."
Little do they realise that, that is exactly how every manufacturing ecosystem begins.
First, you assemble.
Then someone asks, “Why are we importing this part?”
They make the part.
Then someone makes the machine that makes the part.
Then suppliers, engineers and factories show up.
And suddenly, an ecosystem exists.
That's what is happening with mobile phones.
The interesting part is..
If India can build one of the world's most complex consumer products, imagine how many simpler products we still import.
Every one of them is an opportunity waiting for someone to ask:
“Why aren't we making this in India?”
Add India's strengths in software and AI to manufacturing.
And I think we're sitting on something much bigger most people can realise.
The first and greatest psy-ops in history. The entire known world and the great powers and cultures of the era subjugated by permeating them with the Stories, Ethics, monastic institutions, religion, mythology and even Legal systems developed in Magadha. For scale and comparison, larger than the collaspe of USSR, or Arab culture erasing multiple civilizations.
This should be the stuff of fascination. What is 'Alexander the Great' in front of this phenomenon?
You will be studying this for centuries to come-
Every few years, the world reminds us of our place. A threat here, a tariff there. But the message is the same: stay in your lane, India.
Global powers will always bully us, unless we take our destiny in our own hands. And the only way to do that is if we collectively decide to become the world's largest most unapologetic superpower in the world. In economy, in technology, in defense, and most importantly, in ambition.
There is absolutely no other way.
आप बिहार के किसी भी दूरस्थ गाँव में पता कर सकते हैं... 22 घंटे से ज़्यादा बिजली आती है। वोल्टेज इतना स्थिर रहता है कि आपको AC लगाने के लिए स्टेबलाइजर की ज़रूरत नहीं पड़ेगी। आप अपने किसी स्थानीय पत्रकार से ही पूछ लीजिए। कृपया अपने पूर्वाग्रहों और पहले से बनी धारणाओं से बाहर आइए।
Let us reclaim Indian history. Let us remind the world of its debt..
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