Bharat Mata Deserves Better: Higher Education Revolution, AI-Irreplaceable Competencies, National Survival

By Dr. Suresh Namboothiri

Late one night, a crowd fights outside Mumbai's Apple Store to buy an iPhone priced at ₹1.45 lakh-a device whose raw materials cost just ₹92.

A few kilometers away stands an IIT that launched its computer science program in 1978, yet has produced no breakthrough innovations in a field that witnessed over 2,500 world-changing inventions in the same period.

On Wikipedia's "List of Inventors"-cataloging 1,300+ names-only four Indians appear. One of them is Sushruta, who invented surgery in the 5th century BC

This is India's untold tragedy: a nation of 1.4 billion brilliant minds unable to innovate or invent across any discipline.

From 1991 onward, India emerged as a voracious consumer of the knowledge economy-computer hardware, software, and now AI-but never a creator. A service and manufacturing industry that can't create anything the world craves depends on rupee devaluation to remain competitive. Statistically, these should be impossible. What really happened?

This book is a fearless investigation into India's innovation crisis, delivering rigorous root cause analysis and implementable solutions to reverse a civilizational decline.

If we don't do, who will do?

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0H1D4ZPBT
• ISBN13: 9798902968214
• Release Date: May 2026
• Publisher: Notion Press
• Length: 336 Pages
• Weight: 1.36 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.0" x 9.0"