Imagining India The Idea of a Renewed Nation

by Nilekani, Nandan

• ISBN13: 9781594202049
• ISBN10: 1594202044
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2009-03-19
• Publisher: Penguin Press HC, The

Summary

"Nandan helped to found Infosys Technologies Ltd., based in Bangalore-India's Silicon Valley. And Infosys, Wipro, and Tata Consultancy Sercvices are the Microsoft, IBM, and Sun Microsystems of India. What makes Nanadan unique? for me it comes down to one moniker: great explainer. Yes, he, the other co-founders, and N.R. Narayana Murthy, Infosys's legendary chairman, have built agreat global company from scratch. But the reason Nanadan is so sought out is that he has a unique ability not simply to program software but also to explain how that program fits into the emerging trends in computing, how those trends will transform the computing business, how that transformation will affect global politics and economics, and, ultimately, how it will all loop back and transform India. It was his insight that the global playing field was being 'leveled' by technology that inspired me to weite my own book The World Is Flat. And nowhere are his explanatory skills more on display than in this, his first book." Book jacket.

Author Biography

Nandan M. Nilekani is the co- chairman of the board of directors of Infosys Technologies Limited. Nandan is the recipient of several awards, including the prestigious Joseph Schumpeter prize for innovative services in economy, economic sciences and politics. He was listed as one of the 100 most influential people in the world by Time magazine in 2006 and was named Forbes Businessman of the Year in 2007. Nandan received his bachelor-'s degree in electrical engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay, India, in 1978.

Table of Contents

Foreword	p. ix
Notes from an Accidental Entrepreneur	p. 1
India Reimagined
Ideas That Have Arrived	p. 31
India, by its People	p. 34
From Rejection to Open Arms: The Entrepreneur in India	p. 57
The Phoenix Tongue: The Rise, Fall and Rise of English	p. 77
From Maneaters to Enablers	p. 95
Home and the World: Our Changing Seasons	p. 119
The Deepening of Our Democracy	p. 140
A Restless Country	p. 164
All Aboard
Ideas in Progress	p. 169
S is for Schools: The Challenges in India's Classrooms	p. 172
Our Changing Faces: India in the City	p. 195
The Long Roads Home	p. 218
Erasing Lines: Our Emerging Single Market	p. 242
Moving Deadlines	p. 266
Fighting Words
Ideas in Battle	p. 271
The Sound and the Fury: Our Biggest Fights	p. 274
Jostling for Jobs	p. 297
Institutions of Sand: Our Universities	p. 315
A Fine Balance	p. 334
Closer Than They Appear
Ideas to Anticipate	p. 341
ICT in India: From Bangalore One to Country One	p. 345
Changing Epidemics: From Hunger to Heart Disease	p. 366
Our Social Insecurities: The Missing Demographic	p. 385
The Forest for the Trees: India's Environment Challenge	p. 404
Power Plays: In Search of Our Energy Solutions	p. 428
The Network Effect	p. 450
Conclusion: The Awakened Country	p. 453
Acknowledgments	p. 465
Notes	p. 471
A Time Line of Key Events	p. 481
Index	p. 495
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