[OJFord]

Fantastic article. I'm not Indian, so I apologise for my ignorance - but I would have liked to have read a bit more under the 'education' heading.

I would (this is where I fear I may be ignorant of the truth) assume that there is perhaps a rather strong correlation between money/education and English-fluency?

With that premise, it would seem that those with the power to effect change (educated engineers and entrepreneurs) are less incentivised to do anything about it - since they're presumably able and content to use "the English-language internet".

I suppose money can be the motivator though, if there's ~0.9*1.2B people clamouring for more internet in their native tongue.

I am trying to learn Hindi, so having read this I think it'd be interesting to toy around with pan-alphabet internationalisation when I've got a bit of a grip on it.

[amitsy]

Thanks OJFord. Under education, I tried to highlight a few short term opportunities for indian startups to focus on. From K 12 education to college education, all technology solutions have been built only for English speaking users.

There is no mobile based learning app for students to learn Math in Hindi language. No test prep platform in Hindi/Bengali or any other language (there are tons of test prep apps in English) No employee training or certification providers provide their online platform in any regional language. Not even an LMS exits (to be fair not many regional language medium institutions would be willing to pay for one) There is no Khan Academy in Hindi language.

As per the second point, yes I believe that should be true. Its not necessarily true that these non-english speakers don't have propensity to pay.