Nandan nilekani biography of mahatma gandhi

Nandan Nilekani is the Co-Founder and Chairman of Infosys Technologies Limited.

He was Founding Chairman of the Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI), a Cabinet Minister rank, from 2009-2014.

Most recently, Nandan has co-founded and is Chairman of EkStep, a not-for-profit effort to create a learner-centric, technology-based platform to improve basic literacy and numeracy for millions of children.

In 2005, he received the Joseph Schumpeter prize for innovative services in economy, economic sciences and politics. In 2006, he was awarded the Padma Bhushan and named Businessman of the year by Forbes Asia. Time magazine listed him as one of the 100 most influential people in the world in 2006 & 2009. He also received the 22nd Nikkei Asia Prize for Economic & Business Innovation 2017.

Nandan Nilekani is the co-author of The Art of Bitfulness: Keeping Calm in the Digital World, with Tanuj Bhojwani. His previous books include Imagining India and Rebooting India: Rea

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Digital Indians: Nandan Nilekani

Mr Nilekani's office is a cosy, functional place with a cramped bookshelf, a big screen TV, a laptop, and papers and magazines strewn around. A blazing blue-flame "fly trapper" on the floor helps to keep the pests away.

A computer-generated paper warning in the men's toilet on the same floor is a sobering reminder of curious challenges. "Do not spit tobacco in rengöring basins/urine pots", it says.

But, more seriously, says Mr Nilekani, his four years in government has taught him patience and the art of consensus building.

"In the private sector, business takes a decision, you discuss it with your management team, get the approval of the board, go to shareholders, convince your analysts and so on. That's about it," he says,

"In the public sector, it an entirely different ball game - you deal with the government, parliament, bureaucracy, judiciary, activists, journalists. Then there's the federal

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Nandan Nilekani is counting every Indian for the world’s largest biometric database.Illustration by Mark Ulriksen

One afternoon last December, inside a long tent pitched beside a busy road in a southern district of New Delhi, a punchy young drunk was shouting, “Why are you not including me? Take my photograph!” The tent was a winter homeless shelter used by migrant workers. That day, it was doubling as a government office. A table, cluttered with laptops and cables, stood in a pool of electric light, with two chairs on one side of it and a white screen behind the chairs. Twenty or so people stood around; most of them were slight, youngish dock wearing wool hats and bright scarves looped loosely around their necks. The tent’s interior was dark and dusty, but a few balloons hung from the walls.

The men were standing in line for I.D. numbers, in a country with a shortage of I.D.s. They were being drafted into a public scheme, launched by Nandan Nilekani, a genial software billiona