The freshly painted domes of the Hyderabad Public School rise up amid ornamental trees in southern India. In its imposing halls surrounded by carefully mown lawns, India’s aristocracy was once educated. After them came boys who grew up to be heads of the country’s largest companies. And the world’s. Both Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella and Shantanu Narayen, CEO of US software company Adobe, went to boarding school here.
They are not the only Indian citizens to have risen to pre-eminent positions in western companies.