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India's telecom architect
 Born in Orissa and educated in Vadodara and Chicago, Sam Pitroda, owes both
his fame and infamy to his proximity to the Gandhi family. The infamy part is
politically debatable, but when Indira Gandhi invited him in 1984 from the US to
set up C-DOT, nobody realized the arrival of the architect of India's telecom
revolution. The PCO revolution scripted during this tenure was, unarguably,
because of Pitroda's tireless efforts. Controversy however seems to dog
Pitroda-even after being appointed the chairman of Knowledge Commission by
Manmohan Singh, he was embroiled in the hullabaloo over reservations in premier
institutions. But, Pitroda is a successful inventor and entrepreneur in his own
right. He owns over 50 patents related to m-commerce and is also the founder of
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