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SMALL SLIGHTS matter when you want to be a big power. Take a recent exchange on a panel at Davos, an elite salon, in which the boss of the IMF appeared to dismiss India as a second-rate AI power. A few seats along Ashwini Vaishnaw, the country’s IT minister, bristled. Then he launched a salvo citing Indian prowess, from chips to apps. In patriotic, tech-mad India, the clip went viral.
This article appeared in the Asia section of the print edition under the headline “Artificially Inflated ”
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