India Is Collapsing — And Why It Affects the Tech Industry

GitHub repo: github.com/hejhdiss/Truth-Of-India Live site: truthofindia.netlify.app You might be wondering what a collection of investigative articles about Indian politics is doing on a tech platform. Fair question. Here is the honest answer: this affects you directly — if you are a developer, startup founder, investor, or anyone building something in or with India. India Shut Down the Internet More Than Any Country on Earth — Five Years Running India is the world's largest democracy. It is also the world's number one executor of internet shutdowns, five consecutive years in a row. In 2022 alone, India was responsible for 84 of the 187 internet shutdowns recorded globally — nearly half the world's total. A peer-reviewed study published in the journal Democratization found this is not politically neutral: shutdowns are 3.5 times more frequent in BJP-governed states than in others. Every time the internet goes down in a region, developers lose working hours, remote workers lose income,