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12 oct 2025,
Arattai vs WhatsApp: The answer to Western Big Tech is not Indian Big Tech
The internet is abuzz with talk about moving, in India, from Meta-owned WhatsApp to Zoho-owned Arattai. Arattai is “an easy-to-use, instant messaging app”. A lot of the discourse seems to revolve around moving away from a US/West-owned platform to an Indian-created/owned platform.
Amongst the technology-aware, the conversation seems to centre around the fact that text messaging on Arattai is not end-to-end encrypted, unlike WhatsApp. WhatsApp is one of the chat applications I use, alongside Telegram, Element, Quicksy, and Signal.
Every time I come across a message about moving from WhatsApp to Arattai, I wonder if the person is cognisant of the fact that they’re moving from one walled garden to another. I am saddened by their lack of awareness and disappointed by the lack of fruitful advocacy from the Indian Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) community.


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