On Thursday 14 September 2006 10:19 am, krishnakant Mane wrote:

slightly ot but...

> but one man called sam pitroda came and changed it all. 

Actually it was the late PM Rajiv Gandhi. He brought in the 
technocrats. He was the one who forced powerful vested interests in 
the system on the backfoot and shoved India on the road to 
modernisation. Telecommunications ( he forced the DOT to permit use 
fax machines !. It was ILLEGAL !!! until 86 afair ), Internet, 
computerisation. If it werent for him we would still be stuck with 
designing "modern" bullockcarts to the exclusion of everything else. 
We are where we are cause this man stuck his neck out.


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