Dr Jaijit Bhattacharya

It’s not agriculture, but technology that made India a great ancient power

India needs to create a 21st-century welfare ecosystem to transform benefit delivery programs. The private sector can help.

All it takes is a single website which collates everything about you, and farms out all your benefits accordingly.

Wherever you are, you can’t escape the sight of ugly wires and cables snaking across lampposts, streets, houses, temples and toilets. Even Rashtrapati Bhavan is not spared.

It is critical for civil society and citizens to identify such apps and alert the government in order to maintain security and hygiene in the Indian app ecosystem.

Weaponization of narration has been going on for thousands of years, but it has been sharpened recently by using social media as a highly efficient tool to amplify the narrations.

Social media platforms, which have evolved into public platforms, continue to lack oversight to protect freedom of speech, and are driven by the whims and fancies of the platform owner.

Imagine if Google stops its Map services in India, It will destroy billions of dollars’ worth of businesses built in India over Google Maps, and make millions of drivers of aggregated cab services jobless and have severe repercussions on the economy per se. This is the high time, we must develop anything of our own.

China has now become a leader in solar panels, electric vehicles, battery technology, telecom infrastructure, mobile apps etc, in a very short span of 15 years.

This piece talks about Taiwan and South Korea's gaining prominence in becoming tech based economies.