Apr 16–Apr 30, 2017
"The World at His Doorstep"
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Scene 1 — Smear Campaigns Begin
New York, April 18.
At an oak-paneled boardroom inside Google HQ, the regional chief for Asia-Pacific slapped the morning reports onto the table.
> Chief: "We're losing India. Saraswati is eating search, maps, mail — everything. Forty percent market share in under two months. If this continues, we'll be irrelevant in the subcontinent."
A PR executive leaned forward, voice sharp.
> PR Exec: "Then we go for the jugular. Push stories about privacy violations, Chinese-style surveillance. Whisper 'nationalism' and 'data control.' If people fear their searches are being monitored, adoption slows."
Within hours, a string of op-eds appeared across The Guardian, New York Times, and Le Monde:
"Is India's AI a Trojan Horse for State Surveillance?"
"Digital Sovereignty or Digital Prison?"
"The Dangers of Saraswati."
The attempt was coordinated, surgical.
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Scene 2 — Counterflow: India's Response
In Delhi cafés, students scrolled through the articles and scoffed.
One particularly fiery debate lit up on a college forum.
Student 1 (posting): "Western media cries about privacy only when it's not their companies running things."
Student 2: "Yeah, as if Facebook isn't selling our data to advertisers daily. Saraswati doesn't even show ads yet."
The thread went viral. Soon, hashtags surged:
#SaraswatiForBharat
#DigitalSwadeshi
MC, watching from his estate, remained silent. But he noticed something: smear campaigns could be turned into fuel. Every negative headline only pushed Indians closer to Saraswati.
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Scene 3 — The Global Launch
April 20.
MC summoned Maya Iyer and his closest team into the Noida supercluster's glass conference hall. Behind him, a wall-sized screen pulsed with live analytics from India: billions of searches, mails, map queries flowing every second through Shakti processors.
He spoke with quiet finality.
> MC: "They want to corner us. Let's step outside the cage. Saraswati goes global — now."
Maya hesitated. "That means servers in dozens of languages. Infrastructure strain will be—"
Aarya's hologram shimmered onto the table.
> Aarya: "Translation systems already functional in 42 languages. Shakti nodes in Singapore and Dubai prepared for load balancing. With your approval, deployment can begin within three hours."
MC nodded once. "Do it."
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Scene 4 — 50 Million in a Day
The world woke up on April 21 to banners across app stores:
✨ Saraswati Global: Search, Maps, Mail, AI Assistant — 100% Free. ✨
The app exploded like wildfire. By midnight:
50 million downloads — a record-shattering launch.
#Saraswati trended in Brazil, Nigeria, Indonesia, Germany, and the US.
Reviews flooded in: "Faster than Google." "Feels human." "Finally something not made in Silicon Valley."
In Lagos, a street vendor used Saraswati Translate to negotiate with a Chinese supplier over video call — live, flawless interpretation.
In São Paulo, teens tested Saras AI against Siri, laughing when it cracked jokes in Portuguese slang.
In Berlin, a local newspaper wrote: "The Indian Iron Man has given Europe its first real alternative."
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Scene 5 — POV: A Google Engineer Resigns
That night in Bangalore, Rohit Verma, a mid-level engineer at Google India, stared at his laptop. He had joined full of idealism, dreaming of being part of the "world's most advanced tech company."
But watching Saraswati's fluid, lightning-fast results, he realized: This is the future.
He opened his resignation email. Before sending, he typed one last line:
> "I am leaving to join Saraswati. Because it feels like history is being written, and I want to hold the pen, not just watch."
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Scene 6 — The Personal Undercurrent
At the estate, Ananya sat with MC in the library, papers spread across the table. She had come to consult on environmental AI projects, but her eyes kept drifting to the live feed of downloads ticking upward — a golden counter rolling past 50,000,000.
She whispered, almost in awe:
> Ananya: "You've touched the entire world in a single day."
MC didn't answer immediately. His face, lit by the glow of the counter, was unreadable.
Finally, he said quietly:
> MC: "The world is at our doorstep now. That means opportunity… and danger. Both will arrive together."
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Scene 7 — Closing Montage
In Washington, a Senator slammed his desk: "If India controls AI and chips, America's dominance is finished."
In Beijing, PLA cyber command planned its next infiltration attempt.
In Paris, students painted murals of Saraswati's logo beside graffiti reading: "The Future Speaks Hindi."
In a Mumbai chawl, a child whispered homework questions to Saras AI and got clear answers, smiling wide.
And in the mountain estate, MC stood at the window, gazing out over the valley as night settled. Aarya hovered silently beside him.
The world had named him The Indian Iron Man. Now, with 50 million hands holding his creation in just a single day, the storm he had unleashed was only beginning.