India, Nov. 6 -- In every industrial transformation, there comes a catalytic moment when a new force jolts an entire ecosystem into motion, exposing inertia, rewriting hierarchies, and compelling reinvention.

For Indian technology today, artificial intelligence (AI) is that force.

It is the catfish for the country's entire technology value chain - from legacy IT services to startups, PSU labs, universities, and regulators.

The Catfish Effect: A New Competitor As A Catalyst

The "Catfish Effect" stems from an elegant insight drawn from aquaculture. When sardines were shipped alive over long distances, they often arrived listless, sluggish, and unfit for consumption. Fishermen realised that introducing a single catfish into the tank kept...