India can build any technology, says Prof. Ashok Jhunjhunwala; calls for backing startup risk-takers

India possesses the talent to build any technology in the world, according to Professor Ashok Jhunjhunwala, Institute Professor at IIT Madras and Chairman of IIIT Hyderabad and the ITEL Foundation. He stressed that the nation must now back its young entrepreneurs to achieve complete technological self-reliance. While established domestic industry traditionally remains risk-averse, young startup founders are stepping up as genuine risk-takers capable of driving national transformation, he said wh