India could be economically poor but trust me, those people are one of a kind, I am not a indian but those people are one of the most smartest human race I've ever known, they are genuinely smart, both small and old indians, that's why you will find these people in every big companies around the world.
You talking technologies? Indians are made for this, go to Microsoft, Nvidia, AMD, Gigabyte, and MSI companies, Indians have the highest numbers of the most employee in these companies.
I remember a lecturer of mine who once told me that he loves having indians has his students, he claimed that are born smart, he said their IQ of learning is very fast, he made fun of himself getting married to an India lady because of this and we all laughed. The way they speak English may sound funny to you but do not underestimate Indians.
India used to called golden bird, do you know why India used to called golden bird? India's history is very large and very rich with culturally and economically. India was the land of brave kings which was famous for it's royalty. India was one of the major export hub which use to fulfill 43% needs of world. During 300BC under the rule of Mauryan Empire that time World's western country was already doing trade with India. During the Mauryan Empire borders was secured with guards their modes of trading was gold coins. Now you can think how rich India was. At that time 732000 gurukuls was there in India from where genius students use to come out like Aryabhata who invent Zero, in his book Aryabhata in 499 AD at that time he already written about Astronomy, Astrophysics and mathematics. In 1835, the British brought the English Education act to India. This destroyed the Gurukul system.