Atmanirbhar Internet: winners and losers in India’s quest for the middle in the era of splinternet

Theatrum Orbis Terrarum (Theatre of the World) is considered to be the first true modern atlas.

Synopsis
Shaped by economic, geopolitical, and societal pulls and pressures, efforts have been on for a while to create a distinctly Indian model for the Internet. Like most things mired in complexity, there is the good, the bad, and the ugly in this conversation.

Global village. Remember that phrase? Or, the time when Thomas Friedman told us how the world was to be reimagined as flat, with the ‘information superhighway’ creating a shared future for all? Those ideas are well and truly on the retreat. Over the last many years, the Internet has been cut up, sliced, and splintered, with the shape of splintering closely matching the political map of the world and its many ideologies. The Internet is dark in