they are copycat companies just focused on the indian market. Id like to see more creativity come out of such a skilled, educated country.

I slightly disagree. There is a tradeoff between what the local market wants Vs what startups develop. Frankly, the local market in India doesn't need a startup that can index all the planets and stars and make it searchable. They first need something as simple as this one.

There are different copycat versions of facebook, youtube, flickr etc, in each of China, Korea, Japan, Mexico and Brazil.

People don't do what you'd like to see, they do what makes money, regardless of how challenging or cool it is.