[Reader-list] On my view of Nandan Nilekani

[A.K. Malik]

Hi Taha,
         Some analogy I can give from legal profession.There have been several cases of advocates/lawyers acceptin judgeships in High Courts accepting a paltry salary which might have been even less than one-hundreth
of what they were earning in their practices.Some of these HC judges have  been elevated to Supreme Court and they might have decided cases of wealth running into thosands of times of their own wealth.So please don't say it is is not possible.
With warm regards,

 (A.K.MALIK)


--- On Sat, 5/29/10, Taha Mehmood <2tahamehmood at googlemail.com> wrote:

> From: Taha Mehmood <2tahamehmood at googlemail.com>
> Subject: Re: [Reader-list] On my view of Nandan Nilekani
> To: "Bipin Trivedi" <aliens at dataone.in>
> Cc: "sarai-list" <reader-list at sarai.net>
> Date: Saturday, May 29, 2010, 1:22 PM
> Dear Bipin,
> 
> Thank you for taking pains to repeat a para again.
> 
> But first I would like to answer your question:
> 
>  But you have not given answer to my question. So,
> according to you let the
> > Nilkeni leave this project of UID and in that case, do
> you believe that this
> > project will not go ahead? No, it will go ahead then
> also with some other
> > alternative.  What will be your stand in that
> case?
> 
> You see I am a researcher. Mostly I scavenge around for
> ideas,
> opinions, views, perspectives, notions, beliefs and so on.
> Sometimes I
> share with others what I think. I am really sorry as you
> can clearly
> see that it is outside the purview of my very limited
> abilities as a
> lowly scavenger of ideas to tell you exactly what will
> happen to a
> post related to a department of an organization which also
> appears to
> distribute fake identities belonging to the Government of
> India. Why
> don't you tell me what do you have in mind?
> 
> You write-
> 
> For mental satisfaction probably one may not distribute his
> own wealth
> (however after reaching more than sufficient wealth level
> one will make
> small portion of his wealth by way of charity), but
> definitely like to give
> some honorary service without any wealth greed for their
> fullest mental
> satisfaction.
> 
> Could I ask what's your premise for this view? Can you
> please give me
> a precedent in India for this? Please bear in mind we will
> have to
> look for a very wealthy industrialist probably a
> billionaire who is
> given a post with privileges equivalent to a Cabinet rank
> minster and
> entrusted with a responsibility to re-distribute wealth
> which is
> probably thirty-forty times the size of his own wealth. If
> you cannot
> find any precedent then it's alright. We can live with
> that.
> 
> Warm regards
> 
> Taha
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