India's private tech sector has crossed a credibility threshold no policy paper could achieve. If a startup can design, build, and fly an orbital rocket 100% from scratch on Indian soil, the "but we're just a services economy" argument is officially dead. Skyroot Aerospace's Vikram-1 has rewritten what Indian startups can do in capital-intensive, IP-heavy industries.

Evidence For

• Vikram-1 successfully placed multiple customer payloads into a **450-km Low Earth...