Powai lake to LOC: How desi drone startups are disrupting warfare

Remember the scene in 2009 blockbuster film ‘3 Idiots’ where Ali Fazal’s character Joy Lobo flies his drone around the college campus? The prototype for that quadcopter — symbolising innovation in an environment of rote learning — belonged to three students from IIT Bombay, who are today the founders of IdeaForge, which manufactures drones for defence, mapping and surveillance.