India's finest!

Nandan Nilekani, the CEO and managing director of Infosys Technologies Limited received the Padma Bhushan from President APJ Abdul Kalam.

This Bombay IIT graduate and software engineer started work with Narayana Murthy at Patni Computer Systems. Like his mentor, Nilekani has a passion for excellence and a belief in social work. "My objective in life is to be an object of change," he has said earlier.

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