India trumpets the
tablet computer Aakash as low-cost, high-tech innovation required to bridge the
digital divide. It couldn’t be more wrong.
Aakash is not true
innovation. It is a simple contract manufacturing job that should make scrappy
computer makers swell with pride, not something that behooves an IT behemoth
and a nation on the rise. It would have been a remarkable story if the nation had
actually created such a low-cost computer. But it has merely assembled one
through a third
has been a journalist for over a quarter century during which he has written on cricket, business, technology and many other subjects, from India, the US and other countries. He now lives in Ooty.
