Word: nilekani
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...reliance on the U.S. Such talk faded as a subsequent collapse in global trade left no nation untouched. Yet with their big populations and growing middle classes, the BICs now seem to have suffered only a glancing blow. The word redecoupling is beginning to appear in the media. Nandan Nilekani, who is about to leave the chairmanship of Indian tech company Infosys for a government post, speaks of "tactical coupling" and "strategic decoupling." That is, nobody could escape the short-term effects of a global crisis, but the basic BIC growth story still holds. (See pictures of China doing business...
...solve everything, God knows, but the world will be a safer place if those who have recently escaped poverty are not now told by those who have never known it that they have to accept less than they dreamed of. "We cannot deny people their aspirations" said Nandan Nilekani, co-chairman of Indian IT giant Infosys Technologies, in an interview by the New York Times's Thomas Friedman at the New York Public Library this week. Do so, and those denied aspirations will mutate into something much more dangerous...
Enter Nandan Nilekani, a co-founder of the global IT giant Infosys. Through his focus on global entrepreneurship (his globalization-friendly compadre Thomas Friedman of the New York Times credits Nilekani for inspiring his book The World is Flat and writes "Seattle has Bill ... Bangalore has Nandan"), Nilekani possesses a bird's-eye view of India's strengths and weaknesses. Though inclined to see information technology as a panacea for India's social ills (he admits he fears being deemed "the computer boy"), Nilekani is quick to caution that safeguarding India's growth requires far more than economic prowess. (Read...
While painting India's potential with broad rhetorical strokes, Nilekani achieves an impressive breadth nonetheless. He sketches an overwhelming list of sociocultural hurdles from the political legacy of Nehru-era socialism to education, the deeply entrenched caste system, and urbanization. But his reliance on platitudes and wide-eyed optimism is cogent only to a point: the hows are lost in the dust of repetitive hopeful declarations ("a different type of moment seems to be upon...
...intellectual's salvo on the power of ideas is only convincing if such initiatives like universal health care and education cease to be continually and fatally stalled. Until then, such optimism will continue to be shouted down by the piercing shrieks of India's present challenges. And as Nilekani concedes, if you are playing a waiting game with India, you will lose. The Bill Gates of India does his best to weave his "safety net of ideas," but resolving India's inherent internal conflicts is sadly easier written about than done...