Shajida Khan
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How would you explain that while India claims to travel such enormous distance in outer space but is unable to create products requiring much less ingenuity like
1. military arms and equipments
We indeed produce our arms and equipment. We import a lot as well.
2. mobile phones, computers
Its a question of scale and economics. Mobile Phones and Computers use semiconductor chips which require huge capital to produce. Plus unless you are producing them in bulk you are not going to make profit. Wonder why advanced countries like UK/France/Canada still rely on Taiwan and Japan for their chips and chipsets? Its not about capability, its about economics. Will you like to invest 30-40 billion dollars to setup a semiconductor fabrication unit in India or import 500 million dollars worth of chips? I guess later is certainly less risky and these are commodities so cann't exactly be denied.
3. better trains
We are indeed making better trains nows. Look at tejas express. Its a pity that it was damaged by the public in its very maiden run.
4. nuclear power plants
Huh? What makes you think we are not making our own nuclear power plants. Heck we have our own design called AHWR.
http://www.barc.gov.in/reactor/ahwr.html
Its one of the few Reactor designs which can burn Thorium. It is also much much safer design compared to HWRs and LWRs with lots of passive safety. Meaning, it will have much less chance of melting down like Fukushima.
Before this we had build quite a few of our own reactors and power plants. Look at BARC or NPCIL site to see that.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Madras_Atomic_Power_Station . --- Also called as Kalpakkam Power plant. It is indigenous power plant of India.
Besides Indians have mastered CANDU design and have quite a few CANDU design based power plants running in India.
5. online social network
India has her own fair share of 'online social network'. I remember Indian Rediffmail was quite in vogue in 2000s.
Currently, we have Hike Messenger of our own.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hike_Messenger
There is SPYKK
https://www.spykk.com/
BTW, On a related note, InMobi, one of the largest Mobile Ads network is an Indian company.
6. medicines
I do not even want to comment on this. If you don't know about Indian Pharma Industry, I give up!
7. softwares
Again, there are too many to list. But I will give you my favourites.
1. Kony Labs : One of the biggest MEAP platform called Kony.
2. Zoho : https://www.zoho.com/ A major Indian SaaS provider. All software is developed inhouse. Plus the way they developed is grand too. Most of their developers are not having a degree in CS. Most of them are locals from TN, often from very poor background. BTW, SalesForce offered to buy them and they refused. I have personally used their email calander, productivity apps, cloud storage etc and they are pretty good for small, medium scale businesses.