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Institution of Engineers (India)

Carl and I spent a lot of time together. He has been with me now for six or seven days. For him, this is not a job, to file court case in India. He doesn’t want to come here and fight, but this has to be done.

It has to be done in public interest. It has to be public litigation. That is what is lacking here, and we need more of those Ghandian satyagrahis in digital world, to really build Digital India. Thank you.

Carl, do you want to come here? Somebody wants to give you a little—

[applause]

I forgot, Carl also has this little package. In this disc, there are 90,000 pictures of Indian independence era.

[applause]

With Gandhi-ji, Nehru, Subhash Chandra Bose everybody. Then there are 400,000 pages of documents on Swaraj India.

[applause]

There are 19,000 Indian standards.

[applause]

In 435 gigabytes of memory. I want, Carl, to give it to them as a gift.

[applause]

[presentation of the disk drive to the Institution]

[presentation of flowers to Carl]

[Carl invited to sit on the dais with other guests of honor during remainder of Q&A]

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