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| T N Ninan: Citizen No. 473879621? | 27-JUN-09 |
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| Nandan Nilekani virtually wrote himself a new job when he wrote Imagining India. On pages 367-371, he went into the business of issuing a unique identity card to all citizens—a project that has now been handed over to him, to general approval about a great choice having been made. With a full measure of realism about what he is getting into, Mr Nilekani terms the project a “hairy” business; and in his book (excerpted on the facing page), he gives some idea why. |
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| Zapping those phantom IDs | 27-JUN-09 |
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| If Nandan Nilekani is confident he can deliver India’s first unique ID card in just two years, it’s because he’s been thinking about it for a long time. |
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| 'We will miss him but the company will continue to run as usual' | 26-JUN-09 |
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| Nandan Nilekani, the author of the book Imagining India, helped conjure the shape of what is now India's second largest IT services provider, Infosys Technologies, which he co-founded with five other tech professionals, including its current chairman, N R Narayana Murthy, in 1981. Now, even as most IT services firms are trying to emerge out of a crippling global financial crisis, Nilekani is stepping down to take up a bigger cause — heading a government project to provide a unique |
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| T N Ninan: Writer's buck | 28-MAR-09 |
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| Authors have finally started making news in India, with the size of their book advances and not just their books themselves. Ramachandra Guha had publishers vying to offer him upwards of a crore of rupees earlier this week. Admittedly, that was for five (or seven) books, not one; but it hit the headlines in almost the same way that Sachin Tendulkar’s first big endorsement contract did. |
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| 2008: The year's best non-fiction | 16-DEC-08 |
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| What was the world interested in this year? War, Barack Obama, the politics of food, V S Naipaul and how to get rich when the markets were doing their celebrated imitation of the walls of Jericho. |
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