Nilekani asks for crab but it is not available. So he settles for sukha prawn masala with roti, while I go for my favourite fish and chips. The proprietor recommends for starters lightly pepper fried pork which comes with the compliments of the house. Nilekani is a robust eater, and attacks the food vigorously, freely using his fingers. What comes across is his informality and unbounded self-confidence.
I tell him that I have more of him on tape than any other person (this is not his first lunch with BS) and we immediately go into how the world has changed since we last met when he was deep into writing his book (Imagining India, which has just been released).
Image: Founder and mentor of Infosys Technologies N R Narayana Murthy (centre) with then CEO Nandan Nilekani (left) and then NASDAQ President and CEO Bob Greifeld during the NASDAQ remote opening bell ceremony at the Infosys campus Mysore, July 31, 2006. | Photograph: Strdel/AFP/Getty Images
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