Guwahati, Feb. 11 -- When people consider gaming, they usually imagine pricey consoles, high-end gaming PCs, and youngsters fixed on TV displays. But India inverted this picture entirely. India's gaming sector blossomed in a somewhat unexpected way, straight in people's pockets, instead of following the well-known route of consoles and desktops. This monumental shift has created a special laboratory for analyzing how gaming culture evolves away from traditional assumptions.

The story of how India became a mobile gaming superpower goes beyond the technical or business sense. It is about how an entire community discovered its own special means of playing, communicating, and competing. Millions of Indians were starting a gaming revolution w...