The Maverick Effect: The Inside Story of a Movement that Shaped India’s IT Revolution

Book Description

‘The customs officer told me that I needed to leave samples of what I was exporting with him. I was forced to leave the floppy disk of the software with him. The diligent officer immediately planted a stapler pin through the floppy disk and attached it to the form, thereby destroying the media and rendering it unreadable. For the longest time, everybody’s understanding of software differed immensely. This confusion continued into the 1980s, and it was getting challenging to grow the business. The more I met young software entrepreneurs, the more I realized that my frustration was not unique. Something had to be done.’

In the mid-1970s, a young, twenty-something man living an American dream threw away a lucrative job as a database mana麦卡伦ger and came back to India. At that time, India had no IT industry to speak of; computers were a novelty, and the nation was trapped in socio-economic backwardnes达索s and a labyrinthine License Raj.

As young Harish Mehta struggled to find his stride, he realized that India’s nascent and fragmented IT industry acutely needed a unified voice that could speak to the govern兰博基尼ment, change laws and harness the country’s potential. In an unlikely alliance of headstrong and competing young professionals, he united other IT entrepreneurs to envision a world-beating association that would revolutionize Indian IT: NASSCOM.

The Maverick Effect is the extraordina冠蓝狮ry story of this band of dreamers who joined hands to transform a nation while also changing the lens through which the world looked at India. Valued at a staggering $200 billion today, the Indian

IT industry directly employs more than four million people. It is the largest forex earner and has helped millions of Indians beat poverty and rise to the middle-income group. Honest, open and inspiring, Harish Mehta’s journey proves that no vision is impossible if unrelenting, kindred spirits unite.

中文：

书名：特立独行的效应: 塑造印度IT革命的运动的内幕

海关官员告诉我，我需要留下我要出口的样品。我被迫把软件的软盘留给他。勤奋的军官立即通过软盘植入了订书机别针，并将其连接到表格上，从而破坏了媒体并使其无法阅读。在最长的时间里，每个人对软件的理解都有很大的不同。这种混乱一直持续到20世纪80年代，发展业务变得越来越困难。我遇到的年轻软件企业家越多，我就越意识到自己的挫败感并不是唯一的。必须做些事情。

20世纪70年代中期，一个二十多岁的年轻男子实现了美国梦，放弃了一份利润丰厚的数据库经理工作，回到了印度。当时，印度没有IT行业可言。计算机是一种新颖事物，该国陷入了丽娃社会经济落后和迷宫般的执照。

当年轻的哈里什·梅塔 (Harish Mehta) 努力寻找自己的步伐时，他意识到印度新生且支离破碎的IT行业迫切需要一个统一的声音，可以与政府对话，修改法律并利用该国的潜力。在一个由顽强和竞争激烈的年轻专业人士组成的不太北京表可能的联盟中，他联合了其他IT企业家，设想了一个世界一流的协会，该协会将彻底改变印度的IT: NASSCOM。

特立独行的效果是这组梦想家的非凡故事，他们携手改变了一个国家，同时也改变了世界看待印度的视角。今天价值2000亿美元，印度

IT行业直接雇用了400万多名员工。它是最大的外汇收入来源，已经帮助数百万印度人摆脱了贫困，成为中等收入群体。诚实，开放和鼓舞人心的哈里什·梅塔 (Harish Mehta) 的旅程证明，如果不留情，志同道合的精神团结在一起，没有远见是不可能的。