Digital Sovereignty for India: Why It Matters Now
India is a digital nation now. Farmers check prices on phones. Shopkeepers take payment through a QR code. Students attend class on a screen. Voters learn about candidates through a video feed. Families share joys and fears through a chat app. This is a great achievement. It is also a great risk. Almost every digital road that Indians travel is owned by someone else. The feeds belong to foreign companies. The chat apps belong to foreign companies. The video platforms belong to foreign companies. The cloud servers and the AI models and the ad systems also belong to foreign companies. Their boards sit in other countries. Their laws come from other countries. Their loyalties follow profit and not the Indian citizen. This article makes a simple case. India must secure digital sovereignty. A nation that cannot control its own information space cannot fully control its own destiny. The case does not rest on fear alone. It rests on events. Some of these events are recent. Some are old but sti...