Rajiv Gandhi

The leader



Five years is not a sufficient timeframe to judge a person's potential,
but it is certainly enough to ascertain a man's greatness. From 1984-89, Rajiv

Gandhi was the prime minister of India, a young and zealous man who assumed

premiership not in the best of times. Of all the things that Gandhi did, he will

be most remembered for his vision of a modern India, a computerized India. His

singular biggest achievement if any is the New Computer Policy, 1984, announced

within 19 days of his coming to power. This new regime liberated the shackled

potential of Indian IT, and we are still reaping its fruits. Gandhi also

believed in the power of R&D as he setup various technology missions and for

setting up C-DAC that gave India its first indigenous supercomputer.