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It has been an unexpectedly entertaining season for Big Tech announcements in India, a sort of American-powered relay race where each runner refuses to be outshone.

It began innocently enough, with Google lobbing an impressive $15-billion investment plan into India’s Andhra Pradesh (a state where BJP's ally TDP is in power). A respectable number, strategic, neatly aligned with the country’s digital ambitions. For about two months, Google basked in the glow of being the tech giant most loudly professing its love for India.

Then Satya Nadella showed up.

Microsoft raised the stakes with a $17.5-billion declaratio

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