The West will think they understand them. They will assume they understand them. They will be sure they understand them. But they will never understand them.
Hence the implication in the headline (well-written headline, by the way), that if nobody else uses it, India is wasting its time.
The same people said about UPI (Modi's digital payments push):
- hardly anyone has cellphones in India
- it'll take years to train India's illiterate masses how to use an app on a phone
India now has 850 million cellphone users. And the government is creating incentives to put one in every hand.
UPI now conducts more digital payments than China or USA (I've heard that it handles more than both combined, but I don't want to make that claim without a reference, and am feeling too lazy to look for one right now).