Indian ambassador on the technological revolution in his country

Last Friday, The Day’s editorial office was visited by the Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of India in Ukraine, Vidya Bhushan Soni. India is today a unique example of technological breakthrough a half century after it gained independence. According to the ambassador, the revolution in information technologies led to a situation when a third of specialists in the famed Silicon Valley, USA, and 20% of NASA experts come from India. Nevertheless, the country is not afraid of any brain drain so typical of Ukraine: Indians remain attached to their homeland and while working abroad invest in its economy. This became possible because the government earlier created favorable conditions for this breakthrough, also actively attracting private business to technological development. Relations between India and Ukraine are developing not as fast as they could. “Friends do not do such things,” Ambassador Soni thinks, citing such causes of the inadequate level of relations between the two countries as the Ukrainian-Pakistani tank deal and Kyiv’s condemnation of Indian nuclear tests.

Yet, Ambassador Soni is convinced there are fresh chances to revitalize the relationship. The more so that Indian businessmen do not complain about the Ukrainian business climate: they, the ambassador says, are used to “working under complicated conditions.”