What is the response of the Indian government?
I must give full marks to this government. We came here in 1998 to attend a seminar, not knowing what to expect. Some eight of us, successful entrepreneurs, just to tell our story in Delhi in cooperation with NASSCOM. That was the beginning of an engagement that led to another seminar at Stanford and that resulted in a commission being established to channelise our inputs. We made our recommendations and to their credit, the Government of India, incorporated these in their programs I think this is a terribly small time frame to carry out corrections. This cannot happen if someone 10,000 miles away comes here and shares his thoughts. It happens, when people here are desirous of making a change. Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee in December last year at the World Economic Forum said: “Let us create Silicon Valley India.” Isn’t that rather ambitious? The interesting thing is when entrepreneurs get inspired, and our aim is to inspire them, and when the success of other entrepreneurs in I
