Nilekani worked awhile with K. Jairaj before the latter was deputed to the Bangalore International Airport project, whose non-executive chairman is Infy boss N.R. Narayana Murthy. Jairaj’s wife Poornima was a director at Sivan before shifting to Hegde’s new ventures. batf’s financial brains is the husband of Infy’s HR veep, Hema Ravichander, and a host of those who are going to decide how Bangalore will look are chums of various Infosys honchos. The state’s IT secretary Vivek Kulkarni is a collegemate of Sudha Murthy’s brother, the US-based astrophysicist Srinivas Kulkarni. And Mrs Murthy herself was nearly named an mlc....