•Hello and welcome to Walk the Talk. I am Shekhar Gupta and I am at Bangalore’s Bishop Cotton School and my guest this week is one of its most illustrious students Nandan Nilekani. Welcome to the Walk the Talk

Thank you Shekhar. Great to be back.

•Great to be back. I know this is your second appearance on walk the talk. Much has changed since then. That’s why this time, not IIT Bombay, which was the case last time, and neither is it Infosys. Because all of us see you as this great new corporate citizen, a new category of the Indian corporate citizen.

Thank you, that’s very kind of you. And its good to be here in the school that I went to in the sixties, so it’s a great nostalgia for me too.

•You could say it’s a cliché to say that much has changed since the sixties. But much has changed since the last 10 years. You know, we talk about the flat world, we talk about being Bangalore-d/ but much more has happened that is complicated and complex within the Indian society. How do you look at that sitting in Bangalore?

No, I think that’s a very important point. Because we thought we had the whole globalisation argument, the Flat World, Bangalore and all that. And I did spend a lot of time in the last 3 years trying to build India’s brand globally, whether it was Davos or India at 60. But after some time I realized the challenge is not building the brand globally, the challenge is within.

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