‘Cleverest individuals on this planet’: UK parliamentarian Lord Bilimoria hails Indians’ mind at Rising Bharat Summit 2025

On the News18 Rising Bharat Summit 2025, British-Indian entrepreneur and Home of Lords peer Karan Bilimoria struck a characteristically upbeat notice about India’s world standing. Talking on the flagship occasion in Bharat Mandapam at Delhi, the businessman praised the nation’s entrepreneurial expertise and the worldwide influence of Indians in management positions—from Silicon Valley to Westminster.

“Definitely, the world has woken as much as India,” Bilimoria declared, including that the seeds of this transformation have been sown greater than three a long time in the past with financial liberalisation.

“If you happen to return to when the liberalisation began in 1991, it really took a decade. It’s solely from 2002 onwards that the Indian economic system really began to rocket, nearly reaching double-digit development per 12 months. We have now not appeared again since then. At this time, India is the fastest-growing main economic system on this planet at over 6 per cent development… It’s phenomenal.”

Indians seen as ‘cleverest individuals’

He additionally touched on perceptions of Indians overseas, noting that the world more and more appears to India as a hub of mental and technological prowess. “The world appears upon Indians because the cleverest individuals on this planet, and that’s a truth!”

He talked about that he has mentioned within the Home of Lords, “Why can’t the UK be like India the place 1.5 million school-leavers are set to enter the IITs, 150,000 make it within the first lower, and 15,000 get positioned…and people 15,000 at the moment are operating the world as engineering, maths, and science are the preferred topics—the UK can study from India.”

Bilimoria, who based Cobra Beer and sits within the UK Home of Lords as a crossbench peer, identified, “I went to the Hyderabad Public College, and from that faculty at the moment, [we have] Satya Nadella, head of Microsoft; Ajay Banga, the pinnacle of the World Financial institution; Shantanu [Narayen], the pinnacle of Adobe; and I don’t know what number of chief ministers of states and cupboard ministers,” he mentioned. “We had a chief minister of Indian origin within the UK simply now. And it makes me very proud.”

One other of India’s strengths, he mentioned, is its entrepreneurial spirit, which had been suppressed for many years after Independence however is now thriving. From startups to multinational giants, Indian entrepreneurs are making their presence felt throughout the globe.