ICT Business Awards 2025 | Lifetime Achievement Award | The quiet architect of India’s global IT rise

L akshmi Narayanan has lived through the making of Indian IT from close quarters. As a co-founder of Cognizant and one of the industry’s enduring institution-builders, he belongs to a generation that helped convert India’s technology services story into a globally respected strategic industry. This year, Dataquest conferred on him the Lifetime Achievement Award 2025 , recognising not only his role in building Cognizant, but also his wider contribution to Indian IT, leadership development, and in