Rudra Chaudhuri
Sambhavna, which translates to “possibility” or “opportunity,” is not a term that immediately comes to mind as the theme for a global gathering that brings the often-separated worlds of geopolitics and technology under one roof. Good friends, many from the fragmented “West” and focused on geopolitics, have described this year’s theme for the Global Technology Summit (GTS) as “strange,” “out of sync,” “unreal.” In the dynamic world of technology, “possibilities” is the name of the game.
For those of us at Carnegie India, preoccupied with an outcome-oriented GTS, our sense was that despite the turbulence in global orders and international orientations alike, there is space for Sambhavna. The theocracy of older orders has met with a sledgehammer. Europe’s welfare future is in potential disarray. Trade and tariff wars are the common theme in national and local politics across the world. Get real. Get practical. And embrace realism—that is the tone of the day.
Still, there is a verve in India and beyond—across other parts of Asia, within Latin America, and in large parts of Africa—to seize opportunities for change and shake off older shibboleths that have slowed economic and technological progress. One cannot move without the other.
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