Lord Bilimoria said the world increasingly looks to India as a hub of intellectual and technological prowess, adding that the UK can learn from the country’s success in STEMread moreAt the News18 Rising Bharat Summit 2025, British-Indian entrepreneur and House of Lords peer Karan Bilimoria struck a characteristically upbeat note about India’s global standing. Speaking at the flagship event in Bharat Mandapam at Delhi, the businessman praised the country’s entrepreneurial talent and the global impact of Indians in leadership positions—from Silicon Valley to Westminster.“Without a doubt, the world has woken up to India,” Bilimoria declared, adding that the seeds of this transformation were sown more than three decades ago with economic liberalisation.Advertisement“If you go back to when the liberalisation started in 1991, it actually took a decade. It’s only from 2002 onwards that the Indian economy actually started to rocket, almost reaching double-digit growth per year. We have not looked back since then. Today, India is the fastest-growing major economy in the world at over 6 per cent growth… It’s phenomenal.”More from India
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People who thought India will go slow and steady are seeing a fast and fearless India: PM ModiIndians seen as ‘cleverest people’He also touched on perceptions of Indians abroad, noting that the world increasingly looks to India as a hub of intellectual and technological prowess. “The world looks upon Indians as the cleverest people in the world, and that’s a fact!”He mentioned that he has said in the House of Lords, “Why can’t the UK be like India where 1.5 million school-leavers are set to enter the IITs, 150,000 make it in the first cut, and 15,000 get placed…and those 15,000 are now running the world as engineering, maths, and science are the most popular subjects—the UK can learn from India.”Bilimoria, who founded Cobra Beer and sits in the UK House of Lords as a crossbench peer, pointed out, “I went to the Hyderabad Public School, and from that school today, [we have] Satya Nadella, head of Microsoft; Ajay Banga, the head of the World Bank; Shantanu [Narayen], the head of Adobe; and I don’t know how many chief ministers of states and cabinet ministers,” he said. “We had a prime minister of Indian origin in the UK just now. And it makes me very proud.”Another of India’s strengths, he said, is its entrepreneurial spirit, which had been suppressed for decades after Independence but is now thriving. From startups to multinational giants, Indian entrepreneurs are making their presence felt across the globe.TagsIndiaUnited KingdomEnd of Article
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