The foundation is now working on setting up the Shiv Nadar University in North India, on a 286 -acre campus near Delhi, where Nadar lives.

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Singh, pharma entrepreneur K.Anji Reddy, vaccines-maker Cyrus Poonawalla, Rahul Bajaj, patriarch of the Bajaj Group, Baba Kalyani of Bharat Forge and tech tycoons Azim Premji and Shiv Nadar.

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Empowered by new IT, that is exactly what Indian entrepreneurs like Narayan Murthy, Nandan Nilekani, Ajim Premji and Shiv Nadar began doing about 30 years ago, breaking through the Kafkaesque bureaucracy of the Indian License Raj.

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