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Why India is a tech laggard

The author attempts to figure out the underlying reasons for this reluctance to adopt the right technology at the right moment

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Ajit Balakrishnan
Reluctant Technophiles: India’s Complicated Relationship with Technology
Author: Rakesh Kumar
Publisher: Sage
Pages: 324
Price: Rs 595

How is it that people of Indian origin dominate the technology industry in the United States, but India-based technology companies do not figure in any world rankings of technology companies, asks the author.

As examples, he points out that the tech giants of our time, Google and Microsoft are both headed by Indians, so are other tech leaders such as IBM and Adobe. Other Indians helped found and grow other giants such as Sun Microsystems, Bose Corporation and Hotmail. As a contrast, leading India-based giants such as TCS and

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