India, Sept. 17 -- justify;">Thirty years is a long time in technology. It is an even more consequential period in the life of a country.

When Samsung began its India journey in 1995, the country was taking its first steps into a newly liberalised economy. Mobile phones were a rarity, the internet had barely arrived and India's emergence as a global technology and manufacturing power was still years away.

Three decades later, both have been transformed.

India is today one of the world's largest digital economies, an important manufacturing base and a growing centre for technology, engineering and innovation. Samsung, meanwhile, has grown from a small office in New Delhi into a network of factories, R&D centres, design capabilities and ...