Rajnikant Puranik

Rajnikant Puranik has been a physicist, a banker and a software professional. He joined the Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur for Ph.D. in Nuclear Physics, but left after completing the course work to join service. He had been a National Science Talent Scholar during college. He did his B.S.(Hons.) and M.Sc. in Physics from the Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur.

A number of software products have been developed under Rajnikant’s leadership. He has till date authored two technical (software) books, The Art of Creative Destruction on Software Testing and Maximum Oracle, with Oracle Best Practices; one novel, The Malshej Moment; and one non-fiction work, Foundations of Misery, India 1947-64: Blunders of the Nehruvian Era.