‘India Did Not Get Anything Wrong’ | Krishna Prasad

‘India Did Not Get Anything Wrong’ | Krishna Prasad: How different are the Foundation trips to India from the time you ran Microsoft?

When you come on business you don’t spend time in the slums running things; you don’t go up to Bihar all that much. So, I’m seeing more of India, the real India, in this job than I ever did in the other job. I remember once saying that all these cities have big slums, and the Microsoft guy sitting next to me in the plane said, ‘No, no, no, Bangalore doesn’t have slums.’ When we flew over, there was this huge slum. I said, ‘OK, what’s that?’ He said, ‘Oh, maybe it does.’ So it is easy to be a bit na�ve, which is fine. But what we are doing now, is very real.