. . "Sam Pitroda"@en . . . . "1942Z"^^ . . "Indian businessman" . . "1942-05-04Z"^^ . "Pitroda, Sam"@en . . "Satyanarayan Gangaram Pitroda popularly known as Sam Pitroda (born 4 May 1942) is a telecom engineer, inventor, entrepreneur and policymaker. He was born in Titilagarh, Odisha, India. In 1964, he traveled to Chicago to study electrical engineering.After many years Pitroda visited India and could not make a phone call to his wife. So he returned to India and spent nearly a decade with Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi as leader of an effort to build an Indian information industry."@en . . . .