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...

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...

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...

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...