Will Indians be able to come up with something like Google, Facebook, or Twitter?

The most "innovative" thing that  indians have done in the past 2 -3 decades and mastered is the offshore development model. This has become all pervasive. Even if india is into product development outsourcing it is still treated as a outsourced project and loses its essence of innovation. All parameters on which project outsourcing work is done are applied to Product development  : for example work hours, salary, CTC etc. In my opinion Indians can be innovative in getting products out , but not in Indian companies in India.

Develop and encourage ability to QUESTIONING mainly WHY

 I dont believe something interesting coming out of india in near future untill and unless we change the way think First and foremost we must have curiosity mind which we dont have we generally takes everything as given not have habit of asking big WHY. Untill that happens not much innovative products come out of india I give u one example How many of us know why we do certain things in our rituals like arti, tilak. Untill we start asking WHY we closed our mind for better alternative

Are these three a benchmark of judging success?I think you are barking up the wrong tree.Indians are far far ahead in many things.They are main ingredient of every sector;be it business,science,commerce,even techonology.These three are at the apex,i admit but it is irrelevant to compare our own success with respect of these three sites.

Not in the near future. Believe me, we do have the capability, but, because we are a young nation; only about 60 years old; we do not yet have a sophisticated business, economic, social and cultural eco-system in place, which supports innovation. We are developing fast through globalization and liberalization, so, there will be a day in the future for sure where one will see companies like IBM and Google rising from India and competing with the west.

Everyone knows that Indians have the capabilities; the proof for which is the number of Indian entrepreneurs doing well in the west. But, currently it is difficult for such companies to develop and flourish in India. 

Regards,

Om Deshpande

its not possible in near future...and its not because of work environment.. but also because of study and cultural environment,..

70% of indian student want  to be goverment servent... jaha no kaam.. 10 to 5 job... and pension...

fix salary on last date...etc...

koi kuch karna hi nahi chahta.... parents want ke unka bachcha padh ke job pakad le...bas.. jaise taise job kar le...

chahae kuch bhi ho...

same.. in offices... just do given work. no need to think on ne thing else...or something different...

how can it be possible to design ne thing innovative.. it this kind of mentality...