India, April 5 -- At a time when war rages in the Middle East, the concept of sovereignty is clearly under threat. However, in the digital age, not as clearly, the technological sovereignty of nations is also under threat. And that is what makes Pranjal Sharma's latest book, "India Innovates: Technological Sovereignty in a Weaponized World", a timely contribution to the technological discourse in India.

Sharma defines technological sovereignty as the review "the ability [of a nation] to access, control and weaponize critical technologies without necessarily owning them." Other scholars have defined technological sovereignty as "sovereignty of governmental action, rather than (territorial) sovereignty over something." The risks of losing ...