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Nandan Nilekani
Indian
Politician
Born:
Jun 2
,
1955
Change
Me
Money
People
Politics
Will
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Congress is my ideological home; I come from a Nehruvian family.
Nandan Nilekani
Home
Family
Congress
Come
Ideological
I don't decide my politics based on the flavour of the month.
Nandan Nilekani
Politics
Month
Decide
Based
You don't choose a party because it's the flavour of the month. I feel I will be able to work under a political system. I feel if people like me don't enter politics to bring change, who will?
Nandan Nilekani
Work
Politics
Me
You
Change
People
Political
Will
Party
Month
Enter
System
Able
Feel
Like
Because
Political System
Choose
Who
Bring
I am not in politics to make more money.
Nandan Nilekani
Politics
Money
More
Make
Am
My transactions are above board: I do not have money deposited in other accounts and have transparently declared all assets. My real wealth is, however, my experience as cofounder of Infosys and as Aadhar Chairman, which gave away 60,000 crore identity cards to people of India as promised.
Nandan Nilekani
Experience
People
Money
Wealth
Other
Gave
Promised
India
Above
Identity
Real
However
Accounts
Transactions
Which
Board
Chairman
Away
Assets
Cards
When India got independence, entrepreneurs were seen as a bad lot, as people who would exploit.
Nandan Nilekani
People
Independence
Seen
Bad
Would
India
Entrepreneurs
Got
Were
Lot
Exploit
Who
Indian higher education is completely regulated. It's very difficult to start a private university. It's very difficult for a foreign university to come to India. As a result of that, our higher education is simply not keeping pace with India's demands. That is leading to a lot of problems which we need to address.
Nandan Nilekani
Education
Result
Problems
Higher Education
Difficult
Our
Address
India
Indian
Higher
Simply
Leading
Demands
Come
Foreign
Private
Lot
Very
Pace
Which
Keeping
Start
Need
University
My parents were concerned that I would not get good schooling, so they put me up in my uncle's house in Dharwad, and I spent about six years there. So at a very young age, I was away from my parents. I developed an amount of independence and learned to stand on my own feet.
Nandan Nilekani
Good
Me
Age
Independence
Parents
Uncle
Own
Young
Spent
Would
About
My Own
Developed
Put
Feet
House
Schooling
Concerned
Learned
Were
Years
Up
Very
Get
Six
Young Age
Stand
Away
Amount
I think politics is the biggest lever of change in India.
Nandan Nilekani
Politics
Change
Think
India
Biggest
Lever
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