How India became the pharmacy of the world. #shorts

Added: 2026-06-03

[00:00:00]One in five medicines worldwide is Indian.

[00:00:02]That did not happen by accident.

[00:00:05]For decades, India's patent law had a deliberate gap.

[00:00:09]It refused to patent medicines themselves.

[00:00:12]You could patent how a drug was made, never the drug itself.

[00:00:16]So, any Indian company could copy a blockbuster medicine, make it cheaper, and sell it. Completely legally.

[00:00:24]That one rule turned India into the pharmacy of the world. Trade rules later forced patents back.

[00:00:29]But, the generic giants were already built. So, one in five medicines on Earth is still Indian.