Modi Tells the World in Nice That India Has Stopped Being a Technology Adopter and Become a Provider (opens in new tab)

Standing beside Emmanuel Macron in Nice, Narendra Modi declared that a country the world once treated as a buyer of foreign technology now intends to sell its own. The claim, made at the inauguration of Bharat Innovates 2026, is the cleanest statement yet of how the government wants its twelve years in office to be read: not as a story of catching up, but of pulling ahead.