This book offers a comprehensive exploration of India’s technological renaissance within a broader global and historical context. Drawing on extensive research conducted across India and abroad, it combines insights from interviews with influential policymakers, industry leaders, entrepreneurs, and technology professionals with the author’s own professional observations and experiences. The narrative captures the evolution of India’s IT and software sector from an insider’s perspective, highlighting the strategic decisions, institutional frameworks, and human ambition that fuelled its rise.
By examining the interplay between global technological shifts and India’s domestic innovation ecosystem, the book reveals how international trends became catalysts for national transformation. Essential reading for policymakers, business leaders, scholars, technology practitioners, and students, this volume provides critical insights into the forces driving India’s continuing ascent in the global digital economy.

S. Krishna is a distinguished academic and leader with extensive expertise in Information Systems, e-Governance, and Public Health Systems. A former Professor and Head of Information Systems & Decision Sciences at IIM Bangalore, he has significantly shaped academic and industry understanding of technology's role in India's development. He has published over 45 research papers in top-tier international journals and three books with international publishers. His extensive fieldwork across North America, Europe, Japan, Korea, and Singapore, in collaboration with international researchers, led to seminal work on global work arrangements in the Indian software industry. His expertise extends to critical national initiatives; for example, he was a core group member for the National Informatics Centre, supporting high-level decision-making in the Government of India.