Nandan Nilekani Version 3.0: now, a politician
An IT billionaire, a top bureaucrat, a candidate from prestigious Bangalore South. That is one man, not three. Nandan Nilekani rose to fame as the co-founder of Infosys, a company that made him a billionaire. He quit that lucrative job to take up the challenging and sometimes controversial job of heading the country's Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI). And now - in stage three of his public life - he has taken the plunge into politics and has formally joined the Congress to contest the polls from Bangalore South. (Read more)
