{"id":5690,"date":"2009-03-19T02:48:19","date_gmt":"2009-03-19T07:48:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com?p=5690"},"modified":"2009-03-19T01:52:26","modified_gmt":"2009-03-19T06:52:26","slug":"i_welcome_you_a","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/2009\/03\/19\/i_welcome_you_a\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;I welcome you as my new overlord&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Nandan Nilekani, co-chair of Infosys, faced a blizzard of tongue-in-cheek questions last night from a curious and genuinely respectful Jon Stewart. Nilekani has a new book coming out on Friday, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Imagining-India-Idea-Renewed-Nation\/dp\/1594202044\"><i>Imagining India<\/i><\/a>, and the interview roamed widely over huge swathes of sociopolitical terrain.<\/p>\n\n<p>Stewart asked why India would be a more preferable overlord for the U.S. than China (&#8220;don&#8217;t be modest!&#8221;), about the month-long elections in India (&#8220;if a voting machine breaks down, do you call someone in the United States?&#8221;), the biggest detriment to India&#8217;s future (NN says getting education right), whether U.S. is a good example for India or not, and how Nilekani inspired Thomas Friedman to title his book <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/World-Flat-Thomas-L-Friedman\/dp\/B000N0205K\/ref=sr_1_4?ie=UTF8&#038;s=books&#038;qid=1237449890&#038;sr=1-4\"><i>The World is Flat<\/i><\/a>&#8230;JS: &#8220;did you think to yourself, I&#8217;ll walk across it and kick his ass for some royalties?&#8221;<\/p>\n\n<p><center><style type='text\/css'>.cc_box a:hover .cc_home{background:url('http:\/\/www.comedycentral.com\/comedycentral\/video\/assets\/syndicated-logo-over.png') !important;}.cc_links a{color:#b9b9b9;text-decoration:none;}.cc_show a{color:#707070;text-decoration:none;}.cc_title a{color:#868686;text-decoration:none;}.cc_links a:hover{color:#67bee2;text-decoration:underline;}<\/style><\/p>\n\n<div class='cc_box' style='position:relative'><a href='http:\/\/www.comedycentral.com' target='_blank' style='display:inline; float:left; width:60px; height:31px;'><div class='cc_home' style='float:left; border:solid 1px #cfcfcf; border-width:1px 0px 0px 1px; width:60px; height:31px; background:url(\"http:\/\/www.comedycentral.com\/comedycentral\/video\/assets\/syndicated-logo-out.png\");'><\/div><\/a><div style='font:bold 10px Arial,Helvetica,Verdana,sans-serif; float:left; width:299px; height:31px; border:solid 1px #cfcfcf; border-width:1px 1px 0px 0px; overflow:hidden; color:#707070; position:relative;'><div class='cc_show' style='position:relative; background-color:#e5e5e5;padding-left:3px; height:14px; padding-top:2px; overflow:hidden;'><a href='http:\/\/www.thedailyshow.com\/' target='_blank'>The Daily Show With Jon Stewart<\/a><span style='position:absolute; top:2px; right:3px;'>M &#8211; Th 11p \/ 10c<\/span><\/div><div class='cc_title' style='font-size:11px; color:#868686; background-color:#f5f5f5; padding:3px; padding-top:1px; line-height:14px; height:21px; overflow:hidden;'><a href='http:\/\/www.thedailyshow.com\/video\/index.jhtml?videoId=220595&#038;title=nandan-nilekani' target='_blank'>Nandan Nilekani<\/a><\/div><\/div><embed style='float:left; clear:left;' src='http:\/\/media.mtvnservices.com\/mgid:cms:item:comedycentral.com:220595' width='360' height='301' type='application\/x-shockwave-flash' wmode='window' allowFullscreen='true' flashvars='autoPlay=false' allowscriptaccess='always' allownetworking='all' bgcolor='#000000'><\/embed><div class='cc_links' style='float:left; clear:left; width:358px; border:solid 1px #cfcfcf; border-top:0px; font:10px Arial,Helvetica,Verdana,sans-serif; color:#b9b9b9; background-color:#f5f5f5;'><div style='width:177px; float:left; padding-left:3px;'><a target='_blank' href='http:\/\/www.thedailyshow.com\/full-episodes\/index.jhtml'>Daily Show Full Episodes<\/a><br \/><a target='_blank' href='http:\/\/www.comedycentral.com\/shows\/important_things\/index.jhtml'>Important Things w\/ Demetri Martin<\/a><\/div><div style='width:177px; float:left;'><a target='_blank' href='http:\/\/www.indecisionforever.com'>Political Humor<\/a><br \/><a target='_blank' href='http:\/\/blog.indecisionforever.com\/2009\/03\/13\/jon-stewart-and-jim-cramer-the-extended-daily-show-interview\/'>Jim Cramer<\/a><\/div><div style='clear:both'><\/div><\/div><div style='clear:both'><\/div><\/div>\n\n<p><\/center><\/p>\n\n<p>The Daily Show and The Colbert Report are fast becoming the only TV outlets to regularly (several times a week!) feature authors as guests. That, coupled with incisive questioning and cut-the-crap clarity&#8230;is it still fake news if they&#8217;re getting laughs for pointing out the ludicrous aspects of real events?<\/p>\n\n<p>Anyway, check out the clip. Nilekani ends up wowing Stewart, and as Jim Cramer can attest, these days that&#8217;s no easy task. <!--more--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nandan Nilekani, co-chair of Infosys, faced a blizzard of tongue-in-cheek questions last night from a curious and genuinely respectful Jon Stewart. Nilekani has a new book coming out on Friday, Imagining India, and the interview roamed widely over huge swathes &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/2009\/03\/19\/i_welcome_you_a\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5690"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5690"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5690\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5690"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5690"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5690"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}