The world was last designed seventy-five years ago, about the same time that Sam Pitroda was born. That design, which gave birth to organizations like the UN, World Bank, IMF, NATO and WTO, among others, has now outlived its utility. Hyperconnectivity and the COVID-19 pandemic offer a unique opportunity to redesign the world and take humanity to the next level.Redesigning the world is not about looking at it from the point of view of liberal or conservative; left or right; capitali...

The world was last designed seventy-five years ago, about the same time that Sam Pitroda was born. That design, which gave birth to organizations like the UN, World Bank, IMF, NATO and WTO, among others, has now outlived its utility. Hyperconnectivity and the COVID-19 pandemic offer a unique opportunity to redesign the world and take humanity to the next level. Redesigning the world is not about looking at it from the point of view of liberal or conservative; left or right; capitalism or s...

सत्यनारायण गंगाराम पित्रोदा...ओडिशा राज्यातल्या तितिलगड या छोट्याशा गावातला हा तरुण 'स्वप्नभूमी 'अमेरिकेत गेला काय आणि झपाट्याने विस्तारत जाणाऱ्या तंत्रज्ञानाच्या अवकाशात त्याच्या हाती सोनं लागलं काय!सत्यनारायणाचा सॅम झाला आणि जागतिक पेटंट्स्च्या मालकीमुळे कोट्य्धीश बनला...पण गांधीवादी विचारांचा पगडा असलेल्या सॅमना मात्र आपलं ज्ञान आणि गाठीशी असलेला अनुभव आपल्या मायभूमीसाठी वापरावा अशी आस लागली. आणि म्हणून ते भारतामध्ये परतले,तेच एक 'महाध्येयं घेऊन...भारतात 'टेलिकॉम-क्रांती' घडवण्याचं!तत्क...

A young man from Titilagarh, Orissa, buoyed by nothing but dreams, boards a boat to America in 1964. There, in the land of opportunity, Satyanarayan Gangaram Pitroda strikes gold in the burgeoning tech space to become the American millionaire Sam Pitroda. Armed with global patents and a vision supported by Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi, he vows to return home and fix India’s telephone troubles.Sam Pitroda became synonymous with the bright-yellow PCO/STD booths that sprang up across th...

In Deora, a remote village near Lucknow in Uttar Pradesh, Shiva Balak walked 24 kilometres to and back from his school each day, only to be left wondering why there were no schools in his own village. A brilliant student, he struggled through extreme hardships, and achieved laurels by winning a scholarship to fund his post-graduate degree in geology in Canada.'This book chronicles the journey of an extraordinary Indian who has the courage to be ordinary. I went to his village and ca...

CODE SWARAJ is the story of a modern-day campaign of civil resistance which takes inspiration from Mahatma Gandhi and his campaigns of satyagraha that changed the nature of how our governments interact with their citizens. In their quest for universal access to knowledge, democratizing information, and decolonizing knowledge, Malamud and Pitroda apply those Gandhian values to our modern times and lay out a compelling agenda for change for India and the world. Source for this book is availa...