Why Satya Nadella's appointment is ironic
February 05, 2014  17:54
Here is some more information on B N Yugandhar, the father of soon-to-be Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella.

Amitabha Pande remembers his association with the former IAS officer: "I am sure everyone is trying to work out his connections with Satya Nadella ( Truth Serum? ). I have not met the young man, but his father was a mentor for those of us who claimed to belong to what I used to call the IAS ( ML). He was our Deputy Director in the Mussoorie Academy, as fiery a radical you could then find in the country and could afford to call people like Mohit Sen of the CPI ( a fine intellectual himself) a 'revisionist'. He was a bundle of nervous energy, extraordinarily sharp witted and his record of work with tribals and the landless poor was exemplary. Many hated him because he was so openly left wing, but for those of us who were ashamed to have joined the IAS by selling our souls, as we thought, he gave us real hope and inspiration. 

Much of our world view and our approach to social problems was deeply influenced by him.

Satya Nadella's father in law too was a course mate in a course I was doing in the University of Manchester. A very earnest and high minded officer, he too had strong left wing sympathies although he was more the jhola wala type and less the revolutionary. 

In Manchester, he was the serious student, who had little to do with my pub crawling approach to life and frowned on the frivolousness of my pursuits. He had a 'pass'. I don't think he ever forgave me for that. But he was a fine man-albeit a little too seriously inclined. 

Ironic too that the son and the son in law of two fervently socialist and anti capital persons should now be the CEO of the company that personifies 'neo liberalism'.!
« Back to LIVE

TOP STORIES