[Reader-list] On Nandan Nilekani and democracy.

[Zainab Bawa]

Dear Taha,
I came to know about Nilekani's remarks from a friend. This friend mentioned
to me that Nilekani made this remark on a television talk show on STAR. The
talk show would have been held in 2006 sometime because this was around the
time when I wrote this post.

Regards,

Zainab

On Wed, Jul 15, 2009 at 2:45 PM, Taha Mehmood
<2tahamehmood at googlemail.com>wrote:

> Dear Zainab, (Dear All)
>
> This pertains to a post which you made on the reader-list sometime
> ago. In this particular post, the following bit was mentioned-
>
> 'Thom Friedman, the interviewer, asked Nilekani what is the difference
> between India and China. Nilekani replied saying that China does not
> have the problem of democracy which India has.'
> https://mail.sarai.net/pipermail/test1/2006-December/008448.html
>
> If true, then I'd like to consider this as an extremely significant
> statement, coming from a person, who now holds a cabinet level berth
> and is responsible to give us all tokens of national membership. It
> would be interesting to know more about his views on democracy, open
> society and other impediments.
>
> However one is not sure about these things till one can attribute it
> to a source. My request to you therefore is, could you please provide
> us with a link or a source which links what is being claimed to Nandan
> Nilekani so that  we can then study the interview in greater detail.
>
> Warm regards
>
> Taha
>



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Zainab Bawa
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