[nanairo]

Even if it were so, I find this kind of attitude damaging for society.

It's the same thing in Europe or the USA: nationalistic pride results in more expensive products, and people complain why they aren't cheaper. If instead they are cheaper but produced abroad they complain why they were not made in our home country, and why are we giving money to foreigners.

If the Indian government found that the only way to get a 35$ tablet was from a chinese company, kudos to them to do what's best for their society. A cheap tablet will be a lot more useful than the damage it will bring to Indian pride.

[kiuyhjk]

No - the Indian government claimed that the tablet was possible because of their world lead in IT and the involvement of Indian universities. It did this for it's own political purposes and to the embarrassment of the university involved.

As everyone on here knows, like OLPC, it would end up actually costing more than and doing less than a commercially produced model - like every other government initiative.

It seems that in this case they simply got caught cheating.

[Amanjeev]

I agree. India in general is a poor country. I don't give a rat's * where they bring it from if I can get a device just to play with for 35 bucks. You don't get a phone that cheap in contract from T-mobile in USA. Plus I hope that people rise above the jingoism and work as one for our future's own sake.