Quotes from Shiv Nadar

Union Budget 2012 has supported industry's long time demand to improve the provision and standards of education in the country.

At the undergraduate level, SNU has a unique 'Opportunities for Undergraduate Research' programme. Students are encouraged to undertake research programmes at the undergraduate level and get trained in the interdisciplinary research.

Education is a very large area, and we have our hands full. For example, SSN has to become a university; we have to keep adding departments like it is with universities in the U.S.

When you take the best of universities in the world, all of them have research and education contiguous; the person who teaches you could be a Nobel laureate. Some subjects are at the tri-junction of many subjects put together.

Shiv Nadar University was established in 2011, and our first batch graduated in 2015. The first batch mostly had engineering courses and a B.Sc. programme in Mathematics.

A press statement may be given with a very good intention, but it says nothing beyond it. If it comes from corporations they run, then it is corporate social responsibility (CSR). That's different from philanthropy. CSR is a lot of shareholders, including me.

The 1980s were fantastic. This was a time when we were at the peak of our creative work. The question of whether we would exist or not - something which everybody used to ask, including ourselves - stopped. Profits kept pace with growth requirements. HCL had credibility - that was the biggest barrier we had to break.

In large companies, the CEO is very distant from operations.

If you look at the leading Indian IT companies, Cognizant is not active in business process outsourcing, and neither is Satyam.

In the future, there are going to be various components of doing business that have to be looked at.

Globally, as work is re-distributed to various countries, infrastructure will have to be managed remotely.

Any institutions' alumni are key to its growth. We are focused on giving a global experience to our students.

My colleagues and I were engineers who worked for DCM's calculator division. These electronic calculators used digital integrated circuits, and then they started using chips. The advanced versions of those chips were used for programmable calculators, which were the forerunners of PCs.

My student days in PSG saw three Prime Ministers, two wars, taught us courage, resilience, leadership and optimism.

An 18-year-old is good enough for our business, and we can teach them engineering in two years.

The need is schools dedicated exclusively to the rural segment. If we have a child from a village and a city studying in the same class room, the former is bound to lag behind because children from the urban areas have a better start.

If you have excellent people, then you have to give them the power.