New Delhi, Oct. 29 -- Author Ajai Chowdhry, Co-founder of Hindustan Computers Limited, on Wednesday advocated that India progress towards becoming a "product nation" rather than relying on services, focusing on design and manufacturing.

"Our 60% of our economy is based on services, which is very, very dangerous. We should now move towards being a product nation in everything that we do, whether it's semiconductors, whether it's drones, whether it's EVs, whether it's whatever product you can think of, we must become a product nation," Chowdhry said in an interview with ANI.

"We have great design capability. We don't have manufacturing capability. Manufacturing for electronics has been established in the last few years. Semiconductor manu...