Dreaming Big My Journey to Connect India

A young man from Titilagarh Orissa buoyed by nothing but dreams boards a boat to America in 1964. There in the land of opportunity Satyanarayan Gangaram Pitroda strikes gold in the burgeoning tech space to become the American millionaire Sam Pitroda. Armed with global patents and a vision supported by Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi he vows to return home and fix India’s telephone troubles. Sam Pitroda became synonymous with the bright-yellow PCO/STD booths that sprang up across the country and was a dynamo in the Congress machinery in the 1980s. But his world came crashing down when he was dealt one blow after the other-a heart attack false corruption charges and the assassination of his dear friend Rajiv Gandhi. To make matters worse he realized that he had run out of money. This is the astonishing and heart-warming story of how one man at the top hits rock bottom-only to rise again and make a bigger dent in the world. About the Author Sam Pitroda is an internationally recognized telecom inventor entrepreneur development thinker and policymaker. David Chanoff has authored and co-authored eighteen books including several on the Vietnam War and the Holocaust.