The collection of speeches titled A Better India: A Better World was written by:
- A.N. R. Narayana Murthy
- B.Nandan Nilekani
- C.Kris Gopalakrishnan
- D.S. D. Shibulal
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The correct answer is A, N. R. Narayana Murthy. The founder of Infosys gathered his lectures and convocation addresses into A Better India: A Better World, published in 2009, on themes of fairness in business, the duties of the educated and what he called compassionate capitalism. Option B is wrong because Nandan Nilekani, also an Infosys co-founder, wrote Imagining India and, with Viral Shah, Rebooting India; examiners pair the two names precisely because candidates confuse them. Option C is wrong because Kris Gopalakrishnan, another of the seven Infosys founders and a past president of the Confederation of Indian Industry, is not the author of this volume. Option D is wrong because S. D. Shibulal, also among the founders and a later chief executive of the company, did not write it. Fix the pair in one line: Murthy for a better India, Nilekani for imagining India.
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