Ideas For The New Century

Imagining India

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 cofounded 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. Nilekani was born in Bengaluru. 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 and 2009. He also received the 22nd Nikkei Asia Prize for Economic &amp; Business Innovation 2017. He is the author of Imagining India: Ideas for the New Century and the co-author of Rebooting India: Realizing a Billion Aspirations with Viral Shah.

Indian software entrepreneur Nandan Nilekani has written the definitive book about modern India. 
 
Nilekani gives us a fascinating new perspective for the twenty-first century, defying received and imported wisdom, and showing us what is really at stake in the world's largest democracy. He reveals why India's huge population has now become her greatest strength; how information technology is bringing the benefits of globalization; why rapid urbanization is transforming social and political life; and how we can learn from India's difficult journey towards a single internal market. 
 
He also gets to the heart of debates about labour reform, the social security system, higher education and the role of the state. And he asks the key questions of the future: how will India as a global power avoid the mistakes of earlier development models? Will further access to the open market continue to stimulate such extraordinary growth? And how will all this affect - and be shaped by - her young people.

Nandan Nilekani

Viral Shah

Fascinating . . . a welcome detour to the often over-looked realities of how principles translate into reality

Energetic . . . extraordinarily ambitious

There is a bracing optimism about Nilekani's analysis . . . which can only be welcome in this age of doom and gloom

The Bill Gates of Bangalore . . . Nilekani achieves an impressive breadth

A pioneer . . . one of India's most celebrated technology entrepreneurs

Realizing a Billion Aspirations

For many aspects of how our countries are run - from social security and fair elections to communication, infrastructure and the rule of law - technology can play an increasingly positive, revolutionary role. In India, for example, where many underprivileged citizens are invisible to the state, a unique national identity system is being implemented for the first time, which will help strengthen social security. And throughout the world, technology is essential in the transition to clean energy. 
 
This book, based on the authors' collective experiences working with government, argues that technology can reshape our lives, in both the developing and developed world, and shows how this can be achieved.

Nandan Nilekani

Praise for Rebooting India

Fascinating . . . a welcome detour to the often over-looked realities of how principles translate into reality

Energetic . . . extraordinarily ambitious

There is a bracing optimism about Nilekani's analysis . . . which can only be welcome in this age of doom and gloom

Fascinating . . . a welcome detour to the often over-looked realities of how principles translate into reality

Energetic . . . extraordinarily ambitious

There is a bracing optimism about Nilekani's analysis . . . which can only be welcome in this age of doom and gloom

Fascinating . . . a welcome detour to the often over-looked realities of how principles translate into reality

Energetic . . . extraordinarily ambitious

There is a bracing optimism about Nilekani's analysis . . . which can only be welcome in this age of doom and gloom

Books by Nandan Nilekani

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