April , 2007
Bharat's first citizen
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NR Narayana Murthy is one of Mother India's most admirable sons. He is a homegrown capitalist, the boy next door who made good at home and abroad, the son of a schoolteacher who built India's flagship IT company. Infosys Technologies Limited is not only globally competitive but also known for its excellent human resource practices. Narayana Murthy himself is a corporate leader with a heart, his success so very attractive precisely because it is so rooted. Infosys Technologies may have a turnover of 2.2 billion dollars and be listed on the NASDAQ, yet there's always been the comfortable belief that its chief goes home every evening to sambhar and rice. No wonder, recently on a visit to the Infosys campus in Mysore, when APJ Abdul Kalam, our magnificent and most beloved eccentric, was asked how he would feel if Narayana Murthy succeeded him as president when....
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Sagarika Ghose has been a journalist for 20 years, starting her career with The Times of India, then moving to become part of the start-up team of Outlook magazine, subsequently joining The Indian Express as Senior Editor. She was anchor of the flagship BBC World programme Question Time India before moving to CNN-IBN as prime time anchor and Deputy Editor. She is the anchor of the award-winning flagship debate programme Face The Nation on CNN-IBN. She is also a columnist for the Hindustan Times. She has won numerous awards including FICCI Media Achiever Award and Gr8-ITA Award for Excellence in Journalism. She is a graduate in History from St Stephen's College and was awarded a Rhodes Scholarship to Oxford University where she gained an MA and M.Phil in History and International Relations. She is the author of two acclaimed novels The Gin Drinkers and Blind Faith, both published worldwide by HarperCollins Publishers.
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