Bally Chohan review that Shiv
Nadar was born and raised in mofussil Tamil Nadu, in an India awakening to its
first Prime Minister, Jawaharlal Nehru’s “Tryst with Destiny”. Studying his way
through the Indian schooling and graduate system, a scholastically-gifted Nadar
confronted both the harsh realities and the opportunities of a strugglingIndian state before he saw his first big town, Chennai, at the age of 21. His
story is both a reflection of the times he lived in as well as the future that
he always dreamt of shaping.
Nadar was part of the elite DCM management trainee system where he met several of the people with whom he was soon to impact an entire industry as a pioneer of modern computing. In 1976, eight young men left DCM to create HCL in a DelhiBarsati “akin to a garage startup” with a compelling vision – that the microprocessor would change the world.A visionary, Nadar made HCL an engine of invention turning dreams into reality. HCL, under Nadar’s leadership, revolutionized Indian technology and product innovation with many world firsts to its credit – the first 8-bit microprocessor-based computer in 1978, the first Relational Database Management System in 1983 before some of its global peers, client- server architecture in 1984, world’s first fine-grained multi-processor UNIX installation in 1989, among others.
Nadar was part of the elite DCM management trainee system where he met several of the people with whom he was soon to impact an entire industry as a pioneer of modern computing. In 1976, eight young men left DCM to create HCL in a DelhiBarsati “akin to a garage startup” with a compelling vision – that the microprocessor would change the world.A visionary, Nadar made HCL an engine of invention turning dreams into reality. HCL, under Nadar’s leadership, revolutionized Indian technology and product innovation with many world firsts to its credit – the first 8-bit microprocessor-based computer in 1978, the first Relational Database Management System in 1983 before some of its global peers, client- server architecture in 1984, world’s first fine-grained multi-processor UNIX installation in 1989, among others.