Telecom Man is the story of the ‘Father of Internet in India’ and a riveting and inspiring chronicle of change. In 1991, Brijendra K Syngal resigned from a plush tax-free job with Inmarsat in London to head Videsh Sanchar Nigam Limited (VSNL).
Over the next seven years, Syngal transformed VSNL into a nimble new-generation telecom behemoth. In June 1998, he was named as one of ‘The 50 Stars of Asia’ by BusinessWeek magazine. But that same week, he was fired with immediate effect, by fax, for not bowing down to pressure from VSNL’s political masters. Syngal went on to head Reliance and BPL’s cellular telecom forays and played a key role in exposing the 2G spectrum scam.
Telecom Man, published by Westland, is never-before-told insider account that takes the reader from the perilous work of installing pioneering transmission systems in the snow-clad mountains of Kashmir and the secret games that play out at the highest levels of the Indian government and the private sector. The book has been written by Sandipan Deb, an independent journalist.
