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Updated On: 26 June, 2009 09:42 AM IST | | Namita Gupta and Madhusudan Maney
On his big day, MiD DAY calls up Dharwad to dig up details about the young Nandan Nilekani... He was respectful, concerned and generous
On his big day, MiD DAY calls up Dharwad to dig up details about the young Nandan Nilekani... He was
respectful, concerned and generous
Noble tradition
Nandan Nilekani joins an illustrious list of Kannadiga engineers, such as Sir M Visvesvaraya and N R Narayana Murthy, who gave up the opportunity of personal enrichment for the larger good of their societies. When Nandan goes to Delhi, he sets an example for India's best minds, and makes his techie fraternity proud. Bravo, Nandan!
He donated Rs 4 cr for a hall
Karnataka's golden boy Nandan Nilekani, who's been appointed chairman of the Unique Identification Authority of India, is many things to many people.
He's the guy who helped build the legendary Infosys, the one who inspired columnist Thomas Friedman to write his book, The World Is Flat, the student who still goes back to his alma mater.
His teachers remember him as bright and well-behaved, generous, concerned and cultured. And others who know him well agree though wife Rohini was a little more guarded in her response to his new posting. "I don't know anything about this and wouldn't want to comment on it," she said.
But here's what others had to say:
Dr Veena Shantesh-war, Kannada novelist and Nilekani's English teacher during his pre-university course:
"He is a very generous person. When Karnatak College was about to celebrate its platinum jubilee, I met him and told him about the college's progress and about our plans to construct an auditorium. I requested him for a donation. The estimated cost for the auditorium was Rs 80 lakh but the cost went up to Rs 3.5 crore which he took care of. Apart from this, he also donated Rs 50 lakh for the auditorium's maintenance. Construction started in 2000 and the auditorium started functioning in 2002. He wanted to name it after his grandfather, Dr Annajirao Shiroor, and it is now a centre of art and culture in North Karnataka.
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