The IAS officer who made India’s IT ‘horse fly’: How N Vittal turned a bullock cart, a satellite dish and a bold gamble into a technology revolution
Former President Pratibha Patil (left) presenting the Padma Bhushan Award to Nagarajan Vittal. The IAS officer of the Gujarat cadre, 1960 batch. (Source: PTI/File) “Fortune favours the bold.” Few stories in India’s technology history illustrate this better than the remarkable journey that transformed a country struggling with red tape into one of the world’s largest…