India Will Truly Develop When We Start Inventing—Not Just Taking Aarti of Inventions
India is a nation that knows how to celebrate. We celebrate gods, festivals, victories, and even technology. When a new machine arrives, a new app launches, or a foreign innovation lands on Indian soil, we garland it, light lamps, break coconuts, and take aarti. The irony is not spiritual—it is structural. We often worship what we did not create. Development does not come from reverence alone. It comes from responsibility. Aarti is an act of respect, but invention is an act of courage. For decades, India has been exceptionally good at adopting . We adopt technologies built elsewhere, scale them efficiently, and extract value from them. This has made us consumers, operators, and sometimes optimizers—but rarely originators. We celebrate rockets, AI tools, medical devices, and platforms, yet most of them are designed, patented, and owned outside our borders. We clap when they arrive instead of asking why they didn’t begin here. A civilization that once gave the world zero, metallurgy, sur...
