[Reader-list] On my view of Nandan Nilekani

[Rajendra Bhat Uppinangadi]

Nandu, leave the job, there is Taha waiting to take
over.................................!

On Fri, May 28, 2010 at 6:08 PM, Taha Mehmood
<2tahamehmood at googlemail.com>wrote:

> Dear Bipin and Rahul,
>
> Thank you for your mails.
>
> I think if he really feels for the underprivileged then if not for
> anyone else but for the sake of underprivileged people of India Nandan
> Nilekani must leave UID. Why, because he seems to have only a vague
> idea of what he is doing.
>
> Please allow me to revisit  craftsman argument once more.
>
> You see, it is the nature of a batsman to make more runs just like it
> is the nature of a bowler to restrict a batsman from making runs. Now
> we have in cricket batsmen and bowlers and all rounders. But then
> there are some people who epitomize excellence. People like Warne,
> people like Tendulkar. A craftsman hones his skill by persistently
> doing one thing and perfecting it. Which comes after spending hours
> and hours on that thing alone. Tendulkar expresses himself the best
> through his bat. Warne through his ball. It is in the nature of
> Tendulkar to make runs, he can bowl too but not with as much finesse
> as he can bat. It is in the nature of Warne to bowl, he can bat too
> but with not as much excellence as he can bowl.
>
> Nandan Nilekani's craft lie in creating wealth and harvesting it for
> gain. Private profit is his game. That is his nature. That is how he
> has been expressing his self for the past thirty years. Return on
> Investment. Gross profit. Turnover. These are words which were his for
> the last thirty years. These words have helped him convert 1200 rupees
> a month to more than a Billion dollars. He is one of our best and
> shining examples of what free market liberal democratic India has to
> offer to the world. He is an instinctive creator of wealth, wouldn't
> it be against his nature to distribute wealth? Wouldn't it be like
> expecting Tendulkar to take four hundred wickets?
>
> I think Mr. Nandan Nilekani must be persuaded to leave UID as soon as
> possible. It would not only be good for him but also good the country.
>
> Warm regards
>
> Taha
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Rajen.