The thing about a potato, a Postman, or a taxi driver is that they are invisible, not because of being absent but because they are omnipresent and obvious. They are everywhere. And that's exactly why it is hard to distinguish one when the big question pops. Many recipes are made or ruined by potatoes' sheer presence or absence. Many detective stories show the sleuth explaining in the climax why no one was able to see the real culprit- disguised as an everyday driver.
Invisibility by ubiquity has a lot of power. But it is not a cloak that is earned easily. One has to try hard to be indispensable. More so, when it is about being the potato stuffing inside a smartphone, a new-age car and of course, a computing device. It cannot be too soft or too hard. It has to be just right'. And in the right shape.
Because someone might like them thinly sliced. And someone else might prefer them as fries with their burger. There is so much appetite now. And so many possibilities.
FRENCH FRIES ARE BELGIAN- AND FRIED TWICE
For a country that has been the soul of every technology buffet all over the world, India took a while to realise that there is more to this party than being the software salt. It can not only aim for but also gain from, cracking the potato game. But the good news is that we know well the game of invisible fuel scalability with talent and cost advantages sprinkled just right'.
India has been a late entrant in the semiconductor manufacturing market, which is dominated by Taiwan, followed by countries such as South Korea, China, the USA and Japan, as Devroop Dhar, Founder, Primus Partners confronts at the very onset. "While India had started its journey to becoming a semiconductor powerhouse in the 80s with the State-owned enterprise SCL starting production in 1984 in Mohali, however a massive fire in 1989 brought production to a grinding halt."
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