![]() Khosla’s discussions with Sandhu focused on ‘possibilities that artificial intelligence offers for meeting development priorities and convergences among strategic, scientific and commercial domains.’ Among Sandhu’s crowded itinerary that week were meetings with Ravi Kumar, CEO of Cognizant, to discuss skilling and capacity-building in India, and discussions with a team from back home, led by the Secretary of the Department of Biotechnology, for high-performance bio-manufacturing in India. He co-founded Sun Microsystems in 1982, but is now investing in experimental new technologies through his company, Khosla Ventures. On the same day, Sandhu met Vinod Khosla, one of America’s most successful venture capitalists, who ranked 92 on the Forbes list of the richest people in the US in 2021. ![]() Under Kapur’s stewardship, Honeywell is prepared to explore ‘new opportunities in India in aerospace and defence, clean energy and tech sectors’ - this came out after he met the Ambassador. Leave aside the inspiring story of Kapur’s journey from Patiala to Charlotte, North Carolina, from a beginner’s job at a Honeywell joint venture in India in 1989 to the conglomerate’s CEO 19 days ago, Honeywell has a presence in India going back eight decades - it employs 13,000 Indians in 20 domestic locations and operates four global centres of excellence for technology development and innovation. On that day, Vimal Kapur, CEO of Honeywell, a multinational corporation which leads in aerospace, building technologies, life sciences, logistics and productivity solutions, called on Ambassador Taranjit Singh Sandhu. Take a random date this month, say June 9, and follow the daybook at the embassy and the residence. ![]() ![]() The big question is: will India’s inert bureaucracy, sceptical strategic community and cautious corporate leaders seize this moment? Based on entries in the guest books at the residence and the chancery in the first 10 days of June, it can be safely predicted that Modi’s ‘Deng Xiaoping juncture’ in dealing with the US has arrived. THE entries in the guest book at India House, the residence of the Indian Ambassador in Washington, in the last one month offer insights like none other into what is on the table this week during Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s first state visit to the US. ![]()
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