Indian market is one of the fastest growing smartphone market. Yet the biggest players are Chinese, Korean or American.
Railways has been the primary source of connection across the country and within cities. Yet metro trains are made by Japan and european companies.
In the cities IT services are the main source of economy, yet India never shipped its own microprocessor until very recently.
I can go on, but you get the point. Having a vague idea of how to do something vs shipping a world class product are two different things. What’s happening with the moon mission is the latter, though at a very beginning stage.
India to some degree skipped a step on the way. Much like central and rural African countries skipping broadband and going straight to mobile internet.
India took a similar path in 90s, selling IT services. But it isn’t simply enough given the size and the population of the country. The only sustainable way forward is to become strong exporters of good products along with services.
"Self made"
Exactly.
And the objection was around the seeker technology more specifically
Your behaviour is scandalous and anathema to any reasonable discussion. You simply invent your own argument to have with yourself. I'm finished here.
https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Edit: we've had to warn you about this more than once before. I don't want to ban you, so would you please fix this?
More importantly, corruption and backstabbing has so far ruined such talent, spilling into developed nations; so if there is a somewhat level playing field being established through ISRO and via Indian startups for Indians, then that's a great start.
EDIT: Since Hacker News won't allow me to post a reply. I am editing this post here.
You misunderstood what he said. He said that "majority of Indians" are doing cutting-edge research in foreign Universities. Not "majority of cutting-edge research" are being done by Indians. Both have different meanings. Most Indians who travel to foreign countries get higher education grants/fellowships to work on cutting-edge research. Very few Indians actually travel for undergraduate courses. India has prestigious universities like IITs/NITs which are equal to and in some cases better than Western counterparts. The reason why Indians travel to Western countries for research is because of lack of research grants to carry out Scientific experiments that might run into many millions/billions of dollars. In other words, this is brain drain at its finest.