In this article for Acting Man, I examine the myth of India’s information technology industry and the exaggerated narrative that India has become a high-tech economy.

I discuss the difference between perception and reality, the weakness of India’s education system, the role of wage arbitrage, the poor quality of much of India’s IT output, and why the industry’s apparent success does not reflect a broader civilizational or institutional transformation.

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