Sandals, Scandals, and Owning Our Story

Indian fashion has a clear influence on global trends, but needs to better stake its claim

- By PANKTI MEHTA KADAKIA

Metres and metres, rolls and scrolls: New Delhi has furnished us with reams worth of newsprint, flush with reports, opinion and interviews from its recently concluded, power-packed AI summit. As India looks to position itself at the centre of the AI revolution, a question loomed from Forbes India’s edit meetings to power corridors: Can it go from being the consumer of innovative technology to becoming the creator?

As India rises up to the challenge, it got this writer thinking: Perhaps we don’t talk enough about the areas in which India has been the creator of coveted technology. And perhaps we shouldn’t need Prada to ‘borrow’ it to pay it heed.