Like telecoms equipment vendors, the webscalers face a double challenge – identifying growth regions as their core markets get more saturated and replicating their model effectively; while seeing some opportunities being constricted by geopolitic and recession. Of the famed BRIC (Brazil Russia India and China) economies, which were meant to deliver huge growth for ICT in the first quarter of the twenty-first century, China is increasingly closed to US providers, and Brazil and Russia are hit by economic meltdown and isolationist politics. That leaves India – certainly badly affected by the pandemic, and with its own brand of populist government, but still open for business and keen to stimulate its economy and its hi-tech ecosystem with help and money from…