


Salil has nearly three decades of global experience in the IT services industry with a strong track record of driving digital transformation for enterprises, executing business turnarounds and managing successful acquisitions. Salil Parekh, as Chief Executive Officer and Managing Director, sets and evolves the strategic direction for the company and its portfolio of offerings, while nurturing a strong leadership team to drive its execution. Nandan Nilekani is the author of “Imagining India” and co-authored his second book with Viral Shah, “Rebooting India: Realizing a Billion Aspirations”.Ĭhief Executive Officer and Managing Director

CNBC-TV 18 conferred India Business Leader award for outstanding contribution to the Indian economy in 2017 and he also received the 22nd Nikkei Asia Prize for Economic and Business Innovation, 2017. In 2017, he received the Lifetime Achievement Award from E&Y. He won The Economist Social and Economic Innovation Award for his leadership of India’s Unique Identification initiative (Aadhaar). Foreign Policy magazine listed him as one of the Top 100 Global Thinkers in 2010. Time magazine listed him as one of the 100 most influential people in the world in 20. He was also named Businessman of the Year by Forbes Asia. In 2006, he was awarded the Padma Bhushan. In 2005, he received the prestigious Joseph Schumpeter prize for innovative services in economy, economic sciences and politics. Fortune magazine conferred him with “Asia’s Businessman of the Year 2003”. Nandan Nilekani was previously the Co-chairman, Infosys Technologies Limited, which he co-founded in 1981.īorn in Bengaluru, Nilekani received his Bachelor’s degree from IIT, Bombay. He was most recently the Chairman of the Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI) in the rank of a Cabinet Minister. (It’s also been five years since the last one, roughly twice as long as any other gap in the 20+ year run of the series.Nandan Nilekani is the Co-founder and Chairman of EkStep, a not-for-profit effort to create a learner centric, technology based platform to improve basic literacy and numeracy for millions of children. As the others have mentioned, Tales tends to be lightweight but heartfelt anime fare and has much more action-oriented combat than most JRPGs.
KINGDOM TALES FORUM SERIES
The best games in the first group tend to be The Best JRPGs, but if you find a series that clicks for you in the second group, that is a much more regular fix. New games every year or two, follow a formula, reuse your engine, sell enough to make the next game: Trails/Kiseki, Tales, Ys, etc New games are big events, AAA development time and money, several years between games: Final Fantasy, Dragon Quest, SMT/Persona, etc Tom: I think of the modern JRPG long-running series roughly like this: I still look forward to talking myself into Arise a couple of years down the road once it’s on sale. I want to love all of these, but Zestiria is the only one that I’ve really fallen for in terms of completing it rather than dropping off after ten or fifteen hours. I have no idea if this is the kind of game you’d appreciate, but for whatever reason I suspect not. If Arise is about as good as Berseria, I’ll be more than happy. Of course, most of what I described above is true of Berseria and Zestiria, which are the ones I played the most. It’s somewhere between that and Dragon Quest XI in terms of storytelling and tone it’s at once funny and serious, chill and urgent, and it has tons of heart, and I like that in my games. It doesn’t rise to the heights of, say, NieR: Automata, but it’s not supposed to. It’s also one of the few to have these memorable moments that still linger in my thoughts years after playing. Of all the JRPGs I’ve played - and I’ve played a fair share of them - Tales of Berseria is arguably the one I had the most fun with. Again, many JRPGs have those things, but there’s something about the skits and the interaction between the characters that makes me appreciate Tales more than the likes of Persona, for instance. It also tends to have really nice characters and a well told story. What sets it apart is the kind of combat it has - as Armando said, there are many JPRGs with real-time combat, but very few with the kind of combos and fluidity that the Tales series is known for.
