US media leader Mark Aitken hails India’s rise

Hailing India’s transformation from an underdog to a global technology powerhouse, Mark A. Aitken, Senior Vice President of Sinclair Broadcast Group, has said that the country has moved from “potential to execution” and is now “reshaping the global economy.”

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US media leader Mark Aitken (File photo/Agencies)

In his short piece written on Linkedin with the Title, “ India’s Moment: A Tribute to a Nation in Transformation”, Aitken highlighted India’s growth in all these years.

“In 1998, I believed India would lead the world. In 2025, it is. From satellites to semiconductors, from public platforms to space missions this is India’s moment,” Aitken said in a statement reflecting on his decades-long engagement with India’s broadcast and digital ecosystem.

Aitken first visited India in 1998 as a technologist and speaker at the Broadcast Engineering Society conference. Recalling his early impressions, he said he saw a nation “brimming with potential, spirited, resourceful, ambitious.”