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Father of Indian software
 Widely credited as the father of Indian Software Industry, Fakir Chand Kohli
has secured a place in the Indian IT annals of history. Kohli started off as an
engineer with Tata Power Company and rose through the ranks to become the deputy
general manager. It was then that he was offered the reigns of Tata's
fledgling IT company, TCS, in 1969. Over the next two decades and more Kohli
shaped the destiny of TCS. He was the first to talk about Tandem, first to
import an IBM 3090, to maintain that mainframes are not dead, and to question
the openness of open systems-even before most of the world addressed these
concerns. He continues to work on projects that will spread computing in the
country, and in recent years has been focussing on hardware and
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