On the margins of the India-US Forum in New Delhi, SCSP President Ylli Bajraktari sat down for a new episode of Memos to the President with S. Krishnan, Secretary of India's Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY), alongside SCSP Senior Advisor Dr. Sameer Lalwani. Secretary Krishnan is leading one of the most transformative tech efforts in the world today. As the architect of India's digital future, he is steering a $10 billion semiconductor strategy and deploying 40,000 GPUs to local innovators at a third of global market cost. The conversation focused on three core strategic pillars: India's Vision for AI: How India is leveraging a mix of sovereign and open-source models to rapidly scale its domestic ecosystem — and why India's comparative advantage lies in the application layer, not the frontier model race. Taking the US-India Tech Relationship to the Next Level: Moving beyond the status quo to focus on the real opportunities ahead — specifically how the two na...