Techie goes on flashback mode

Book captures history of IT software
and services industry in India

Chennai:

Tech geeks are busy dabbling in software and hardware language that they hardly carry out tales of their work but former chief executive officer of Tata Consultancy Subramanium Ramadorai proved it otherwise with the launch of his book The TCS Story … and Beyond.

Speaking after the launch of the book by noted scientist Dr M S Swaminathan here at a function organized by Penguin Books and Taj Coromandel in association with Confederation of Indian Industry on Wednesday evening, the advisor to the Prime Minister in the National Skill Development Council said the book is about getting the story from a IT professional and it is a biggest challenge as their whole day is spent on dabbling with hardware and software.

“It was a challenging experience to put in my 40 years of experience in 300 pages and the biggest was to make the IT professionals recall a project to capture the finer nuances of the experiences.

“As such I mastered the art of asking the same question so that I could get what I am looking for,” disclosed Ramadorai while highlighting how he went about compiling his book.

The book happened in mad hustle and bustle of life and I hope the book is aesthetically pleasing story to make reader turn the next page, he said.

“We toiled with several titles and came with a simpler one which highlights that the journey doesn’t end,” he said.

To a 24X7 lifestyle of techies, the former CEO of Tata Consultancy Services said, “It is good to work at any place but based on my experience I advise the youngsters to take time off from work. I learnt it late.”

The TCS story is one of modern India’s great success stories and in the book Ramadorai, one of the country’s most respected business lesaders, recounts the steps to that extraordinary success from a $400 million company to a $ eight billion company and providing jobs to 200,000 people.

The inside story of one of India’s premier corporate institutions, this is also in part a history of the rapidly developing IT software and services industry in India told from the perspective of an industry leader.

M S Swaminathan hailed the book and said it is a timely release and provides hope that one should not get overwhelmed by problems. Also present was Confederation of Indian Industry chairman southern region T T Ashok.