Can India Produce the Next Steve Jobs?
By siliconindia   |   Wednesday, 12 October 2011, 00:18 IST   |    17 Comments
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Bangalore: A question that many want an answer for. Why is this question important to a country like India? For a country which has a 2000 year old history, which boasts about Upanishads, Arya Bhatta, the decimal system, and the zero why can't it boast about innovators like Wright Brothers, Bill Gates or Steve Jobs who changed the world map through their innovations? Is India just making mountains out of its pebbles like most number of Nobel Laureates, scientific papers and patents? Does India lack the knowledge of day-to-day scientific significance? The news of Steve Jobs death spread a silence among many aspiring Indian techies who could not find a unique innovator and role model such as Jobs in their own country. The fact that Jobs' death made such big news in India shows that young people are seeing themselves in him. Like the Doppler Effect, Jobs has caused a Jobsian effect, an everlasting wave that generates the question in many: When will India have its own Jobs? A question that India has not answered for many years, but the question has been reframed strongly this time with the death of Jobs. Time and again we have always reasoned out our failures, be it corruption scams, be it our inflation or be it our government system. For everything we have a reason to lean on. So here again we list out the reasons for failing to produce talented and innovative thinkers.

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