Some Thoughts on Deep Tech in India

There is an interesting irony in the way we sometimes talk about innovation in India. We celebrate the extraordinary growth of fintech, quick commerce, grocery delivery, and consumer internet

There is an interesting irony in the way we sometimes talk about innovation in India. We celebrate the extraordinary growth of fintech, quick commerce, grocery delivery, and consumer internet businesses (and rightly so!), but occasionally question why anyone would choose to spend ten years building rockets, semiconductors, new materials, or advanced energy systems when far quicker commercial opportunities exist (as has been the case on X recently). I think this misses something fundamental. The