Telecom Man

6 PM, Tuesday, Aug 4, 2020 Discussion on the Theme of the Book Mr B K Syngal Father of Internet Former CMD, VSNL Author, Telecom Man

Mr Sandipan Deb Independent Journalist & Co-author of Telecom Man

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Programme 6.00 pm Welcome address

E-Launch of the book and Address by the Authors

Gp Capt R Vijayakumar (Retd), VSM Executive Director Madras Management Association Mr B K Syngal Father of Internet

Former Chairman & Managing Director, VSNL

Author, Telecom Man

Mr Sandipan Deb Independent Journalist & Co-author of Telecom Man

Q&A Session

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7.20 pm

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PROFILE

B K Syngal BRIJENDRA K. SYNGAL is the man behind the Indian telecom revolution. He is widely regarded as the ‘father of the internet’ and the one who connected the country to the rest of the world in the early years of globalisation and bridged the digital divide.

An alumnus of IIT Kharagpur, he has held several leadership roles; notably as Chairman and Managing Director of Videsh Sanchar Nigam Ltd (VSNL). Later, as Chairman of Reliance Telecom and Vice Chairman of BPL Cellular, he was instrumental in creating the infrastructure blueprint for a converged society as we know it today. He has been Chairman, Commonwealth Telecommunications Organisation; Governor on the board of INTELSAT, and was named as one of the ‘50 Stars of Asia’ in 1998 by BusinessWeek International magazine.

In recent years, Mr Syngal was instrumental in exposing the 2G spectrum allocation scam. He is also a keen philanthropist who funds schools in backward areas of West Bengal and has instituted scholarships for economically challenged meritorious students at his alma mater IIT Kharagpur.

PROFILE

Sandipan Deb SANDIPAN DEB is an independent journalist. He has been Editor of The Financial Express, Managing Editor

of Outlook and Founder-Editor of Outlook Money, Open and Swarajya magazines. He is the author of The IITians: How an Indian Institution; Institution and Its Alumni Are Reshaping the World; Fallen Angel: The Making and Unmaking of Rajat Gupta; and The Last War, a novel re-imaging the Mahabharata in the modern

Mumbai

underworld;

and

editor

of

Momentous Times, a volume to commemorate 175 years of the Times of India. His writings cover the

spectrum from economy to culture, cricket to quantum physics, cinema to society, the future of technology to what keeps us human. He is an alumnus of IIT Kharagpur and IIM Calcutta.

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