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Opinion

Reliance's Facebook deal highlights India's troubled tech sector

Country is drifting into techno-nationalism with dominant local players

| India

James Crabtree is an associate professor in practice at the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy at the National University of Singapore. He is author of "The Billionaire Raj."

There are two ways of interpreting April's $5.7 billion deal between Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg and billionaire Mukesh Ambani.

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