India’s AI Deficit The World’s Largest Engineering Pipeline Produces Workers, Not Innovators | Varna Sri Raman

Why the US invested 94 times more in AI than India last year, why 62% of India’s top engineering talent emigrates, why every semiconductor fab proposal keeps collapsing, and what this means for an IT sector already shedding tens of thousands of jobs to the very technology India cannot build.

IN DECEMBER 2025, India’s IT Minister proudly tweeted that India had