Posterity may view MAGA President as destroyer of American greatness

By K Raveendran

Bill Gates’ recent revelation about how a critical recruitment drive of fifteen Indian engineers had once saved Microsoft from slipping into irrelevance comes at a time when the United States under Donald Trump is imposing restrictive visa measures that are designed to block the very talent pool that had proven indispensable for America’s technological ascendancy.

Gates’ candid acknowledgment not only underlines the transformative contribution of Indian technologists in shaping the world’s foremost digital empires but also illustrates the irony of American policy today, which, by prioritising short-term protectionist gains, risks undermining the long-term supremacy of the US in the knowledge economy. At

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