Blue Screen Blues: Microsoft Triggered Cyber Meltdown and the Case for Atmanirbharta

The champions of Atmanirbhar Bharat, isolationists among conservatives and the malcontents of globalisation are having a "told you so moment." The Microsoft outage has given all of them a chance to have a right royal moan about the perils of blind belief in the overarching credo of the liberal world order: that international post-World War II system characterised, at least in one context, by the encouragement of global trade, economic interdependence, and multi-lateral agreements. And it's not hard to see why. Look at the mayhem caused by a single rogue file called c-00000291*.sys. This teeny-weeny alpha-numeric code in a single…