India, Oct. 13 -- Something remarkable happened in India over the past decade that we often forget to tell ourselves. We built digital public infrastructure at a scale no other country has achieved-and made it available to everyone, not as a commercial product, but as a public good. Aadhaar gave over a billion people a digital identity. UPI now processes over ten billion transactions a month. When the pandemic came, we delivered vaccines to a billion people using architecture that existed only because we had built it over the previous decade.

This is not merely a technology story. It is a governance story - a testament to what happens when administrators, engineers, and policymakers work together with clear purpose. And it is a story tha...