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Kanakasabapathy Pandyan

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Management professional

Pandyan grew up in small town Tamil Nadu, before IIT Madras opened up a larger world for him. Mechanical Engineering led him into building a fully functioning four-seater hovercraft, while he was still a student. Then he crossed the country to IIM Calcutta. His journey from there traversed the tea plantations in Assam, automobiles in Pune, coming to rest in publishing and then IT in Mumbai. 1981 saw him receive an award in Lima from World Management Congress for authoring a paper titled 'Management & Bureaucracy'. Soon after, he would edit the house magazine of Bombay Management Association. TRead More...

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Birth of Bangladesh

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In 1971, the day after the Pakistan army surrendered to Indian army in Dhaka, four of us classmates at IIM Calcutta crossed over into Bangladesh. We travelled to Dhaka and returned after a week, traveling by train, bus, military jeep, fishing boat, bullock cart, but mainly our feet.

In our interaction with people of the newly liberated Bangladesh, we experienced the full spectrum from being felicitated to being threatened. We were garlanded and s

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Pandyan grew up in small town Tamil Nadu, before IIT Madras opened up a larger world for him. Mechanical Engineering led him into building a fully functioning four-seater hovercraft, while he was still a student. Then he crossed the country to IIM Calcutta. His journey from there traversed the tea plantations in Assam, automobiles in Pune, coming to rest in publishing and then IT in Mumbai.
1981 saw him receive an award in Lima from World Management Congress for authoring a paper titled 'Management & Bureaucracy'. Soon after, he would edit the house magazine of Bombay Management Association. Thereafter, he went on to launch Computer Point, India's first computer retail chain. On a plain sheet of paper, he doodled the idea of software publishing, which would take shape in Sonata, the first software publishing house in India. He is one of the founding signatories of NASSCOM. The 90s would see him pioneer the internet in India and advise VSNL on retailing internet connectivity.
He opened the new millennium by curating the original Mahatma Gandhi digital footprint. He set up a school of animation and is still a board director with Graphiti studio. He mentors Netmonastery, a Gartner-certified Indian security-software company. He time travels between memories of old adventures & seeking new horizons online & in his imagination. He lives in Mumbai with his family of three humans and a lot of books.

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Birth of Bangladesh

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