Japan, Korea and Germany improved as much they could by pushing more of there people into manufacturing. All three have stagnate incomes , poor demographics and completely under the thumb of Uncle Sam.
While India started much later become the big boss due to its flow of high end talent. and these people will set example for more people to come. how fast is progress for a girl like stanford engineering girl professor.
India taking every opportunity presented in developed world. Its hands on transfer of knowledge and wealth. with this wealth Indian people can reduce risk of not having to store all the wealth in one country after all 1.4b people in one place can become unstable. and it also create personal connections as larger wealthy diaspora interact with wealthy of Middleast. India always seat in high table and can listen to things to make inform decisions. This is not Philippine or Vietnam.