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Indians success stories abroad

Business & industry kata. Chairman ArcelorMittal (UK). ogy Karnataka. President, Tufts Univer-
Satya Nadella. Manipal Institute of Anil Agarwal. Miller High School, Patna. sity (USA).
Technology. Chairman & CEO Microsoft Founder Chairman, Vedanta Resources Abhijit Banerjee. Jawaharlal Nehru Univer-
(USA). (UK). sity, Delhi. Economics Professor at MIT,
Sundar Pichai. IIT-Kharagpur. CEO USA & Nobel Laureate.
Alphabet Inc and subsidiary Google Academia Raghuram Rajan. IIT-Delhi. Professor of
(USA). Srikant Datar. IIM-Ahmedabad. Dean, Har- Finance at the University of Chicago's
Shantanu Narayen. Osmania University, vard Business School (USA). Booth School of Business (USA).
Hyderabad. President & CEO Adobe Soumitra Dutta. IIT-Delhi. Dean, Saïd Busi-
(USA). ness School, Oxford University (UK). Top people of Indian origin
Sanjiv Lamba. St. Xavier’s College, Kol- Dipak C Jain. Darang College, Tezpur Rishi Sunak. Prime Minister, United
kata. CEO, Linde (Germany). (Assam). Co-President, China Europe Kingdom.
Arvind Krishna. IIT-Kanpur. CEO, IBM International Business School, Shanghai Kamala Harris. Vice President, United
(USA). (China). States.
Ajay Banga. St. Stephen’s College, Delhi Subra Suresh. IIT-Madras. President, Carn- Pramila Jayapal. U.S. Congress.
& IIM-Ahmedabad. President, World egie Mellon University (USA). Sue-Ellen Cassiana Braverman. Home
Bank. Satish K. Tripathi. Benares Hindus Univer- Secretary, UK.
Laxman Narasimhan. College of Engineer- sity. President, NY University at Buffalo Priti Patel. Former Home Secretary (UK).
ing Pune. CEO, Starbucks (USA). (USA). Keith Vaz. Labour MP; long-serving Brit-
Leena Nair. XLRI Jamshedpur. CEO, Neeli Bendapudi. Andhra University. Presi- ish Asian MP.
Chanel (UK). dent, Pennsylvania State University (USA). Vivek Ramaswamy. Entrepreneur & Presi-
Gita Gopinath. Lady Shri Ram College & H. Deep Saini. Punjab Agricultural Univer- dential candidate, USA.
Delhi School of Economics. Chief Econ- sity, Ludhiana. Vice Chancellor, McGill Nikki Haley. Presidential candidate, USA
omist, International Monetary Fund. University (Canada).
Laxmi Mittal. St. Xavier’s College, Kol- Sunil Kumar. National Institute of Technol- (Source: EW compilation)

according to a 2018 survey conducted in a league table of 190 nations. With
by the Lokniti team of the Delhi-based neither security provided by the ar-
Centre for the Study of Developing So- chaic, corrupt law and order machin-
cieties (CSDS). ery nor speedy justice, it’s no surprise
In civilized society, the law and that high net worth and talented pro-
order machinery is closely allied with fessionals, who are aware of the su-
the justice delivery system. Here again perior soft infrastructure including
more by design than accident, the ju- better civic governance provided in
dicial system has fallen into disrepair. developed OECD countries, are pack-
In an editorial written in Education- ing up and leaving in droves, know-
World in August 2020, we highlighted ing full well they may have to suffer
that “India’s ratio of judges to popula- condescension, if not outright racial
tion is perhaps the lowest worldwide discrimination, in foreign countries.
— 20 per million people currently.
Against this, the ratio of judges per PUBLIC EDUCATION & HEALTH
million in the US is 70, China (144), Supreme Court: 56 million cases backlog Surprisingly, social scientists, aca-
Russia (210) and Lichtenstein (1,837). demics and media pundits have paid
Deeper examination is required to un- and pendency for final adjudication is inadequate attention to the pathetic
derstand why for over half a century, 10-15 years for criminal and civil cas- state of public education in post-
successive governments at the Centre es, during which under-trials languish independence India. Few have made
have failed to make larger provision for years in prison while substantial the connection between poor quality
to expand and improve the judicial court fees are payable on civil suits. education and the deficiencies of po-
system”. On the critical parameter of enforce- litical, socio-economic, law and order
Since then the national judicial ability of contracts — vital for ease of systems. Yet a moment’s reflection
backlog has risen to 56 million cases doing business — India is ranked #163 makes it clear that if the population

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