Google, Perplexity, Meta, Amazon… how the West won India

Thanks to millions of Indians with cheap data connections and little to do, Big Tech continues to make giant strides in the country. The narrative of an atmanirbhar Bharat in technology is now dead in the water.

19 July, 20257 min
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Google, Perplexity, Meta, Amazon… how the West won India

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