View sam pitroda s profile on linkedin, the worlds largest professional community. My journey to connect india an autobiography of satyanarayan gangaram pitroda a. Sam pitroda s autobiography traces the countrys telecom revolution with a touch of wry humour. Pitroda says not modi but rajiv gandhi started digital india.
If india owes its emergence as an information and communication p. He was advisor to the prime minister of india on public information infrastructure and innovation and recently served as chairman of national innovation council. Sam pitroda challenges pm modi, says debate with me, im. He holds around 20 honorary phds, close to 100 worldwide patents, and has published five books and numerous papers and lectured widely all over the world. Satyanarayan gangaram pitroda, popularly known as sam pitroda, was born in a remote orissa village called titilagarh in may 1942 and is a telecom. Salil pitroda senior advisor francisco partners linkedin. Book extract when rajiv gandhi fired two babus in their presentation to rajiv they had shown a kind of feelgood, advertisementtype video on indias water and food productionpretty. See the complete profile on linkedin and discover sam.
Sam pitroda became synonymous with the brightyellow pcostd booths which sprang up across the country, and was a dynamo in the congress machinery in the 1980s. Pitroda is the father of telcom revolution in india who developed worldclass infrastructure in telecommunications and introduced make in india concept in early 80s. The congress may field gandhi family loyalist and technocrat sam pitroda or senior leader janardan dwivedi from karnataka for the rajya sabha polls on march 23. Manmohan singh, rahul gandhi attend sam pitroda s book launch. A biography, by mayank chhaya, konark publishers pvt ltd, 1992 this biography of sam pitroda by mayank chhaya was on the best seller list in india.
Dreaming big paperback jan 01, 2016 sam pitroda book. Pitroda also holds a collection of over 40 years of his personal daily diaries and workbooks. Sam pitroda has 11 books on goodreads with 328 ratings. Dreaming big paperback jan 01, 2016 sam pitroda by sam. As an entrepreneur, operator, advisor and investor, he has led high. Salil pitroda is a business builder focused on growthoriented, softwarebased companies across a variety of formats. Pitroda said the lok sabha election is the most important in the history of india, saying it is not a contest between bjp and congress. Sam pitroda is an internationally respected telecom inventor, entrepreneur, development thinker, and policymaker who has spent 50 years in information an. For indians who began reading newspapers and watching television in the mid1980s, sam pitroda is the archetypal technocrat, the first of the breed, then a 40something brainiac with a frenchcut beard who let his hair hang lank and loose over his face.
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