man i keep thinking. why cant india get into stuff like this. Do their own manhattan project to build factories and tech for this and immigrate experts with high salaries.
India needs to first figure out the absolute basics
At least we have the CIA to blame on religious fundamentalism.
The Indian Government is heavily pushing for domestic capabilities.
To understand why India failed to replicate the Chinese or East Asian model, I recommend A Sixth of Humanity by Devesh Kapoor and Aravind Subramanian.
I had a similar view to you ~2 weeks ago. Spending some time there very quickly made me realize that there’s a lot of other things that are much more pressing.
Higher education want to move or distant themselves from the poor, dirty or just caste separation.
If you have the feeling that certain things are not your problem, you are not rising.
You really can’t expect the same bureaucratic setup to think in terms of the decade+ it would take to be competent at something like chips
The whole system needs to be dismantled while an alternative system gets built; given the nature of Indian politics (freebies/jobs/reservations to certain groups; monthly stipends to certain groups by borrowing money while at the same time looting public funds), it is impossible.