A few days ago Karthik Ayyar, the founder of an IIT Madras-incubated company that developed India’s first indigenous mobile operating system, BharOS, said his company is considering providing this technology for routers. BharOS is being launched as an alternative at a time when the tech giants like Google are under the scanner for anti-trust practices in India.

However, this is not the first time India is trying to develop an indigenous operating system, both for mobile and computer devices.

The failure of the OS projects in the past may hold some important lessons for anyone making a future attempt.

Tune in for the details.

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