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ISlowdown, Recovery and Camels!!!
August, 2009
VAR India
Look at the newspaper headlines!, If they cheer you up, I am one with you...
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| Spotlight June 2009 |
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If I Were The Prime Ministar...
June, 2009
VAR India
Please note the caption. It is unlikely condition. Those who care about the grammer, particularly Wren & Martin buffs...
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| Spotlight April 2009 |
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Heads I Win, Tails You Lose!!
April, 2009
VAR India
It is election (silly) time. Manifestos are brimmed with promises and echo unstinted support for the cause of the common man...
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| Spotlight March 2009 |
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Calcatta Oh!! Kolkata
March, 2009
VAR India
I like travelling, paticularly when it is travelling down memory lane. The later indulgence comes to me...
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| Spotlight February 2009 |
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IPL to Slumdog to Millionaire
February, 2009
VAR India
In these difficult times also, the world is saying toast to India. Senior representatives of new US Goverment are visiting India on regular basis. You may legitimatelyask two questiuons: how and why?...
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| Digital Edge January 2009 |
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Geographical diversification is unavoidable and meritorious
January, 2009
Digital Edge
Interra Information Technologies has been a constant contributor to both tangible and intangible of its partners...
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| Spotlight January 2009 |
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Hero 2 Zero
January, 2009
VAR India
Satyam, the fourth largest IT Company in the Country, has been deeply etched in the India psyche for more than one reason. The word Satyam, in all Indian languages and dialects, means truth and many legends are...
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| Spotlight December 2008 |
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Oh, Oh, Obama - An Open Letter to the President – elect
December, 2008
VAR India
Dear Mr. President-elect,
Let me, at the outset, congratulate you on your historic achievement of becoming the President of United States. Your cheerful disposition, dynamism, neighborhood and youthful look and dogged approach to fight against...
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| Spotlight November 2008 |
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InterraIT: The Trusted Name in ICT
November, 2008
VAR India
India is an IT powerhouse, Today, this has become a cliché. The expansion of the sector has been truly mind-bloggling in the last decade or so. Hence, it is no surprise...
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| Spotlight October 2008 |
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New York to New Delhi-A Synthesis of lmminent Economic Recovery
October, 2008
VAR India
I have just returned from the US. The situation there is very chaotic and the contagion seems to be spreading across the world. I am not dealing with the nuts and bolts of the crisis...
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| Spotlight September 2008 |
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Sub-Prime Crisis, ICT Slowdown and Me
September, 2008
VAR India
There is a marked difference in the tenor of reporting in the media across the world, particularly of economic matters for the last one year or so. The Indian media was vying with each other as to who would break...
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| Spotlight August 2008 |
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Spectre of Hope
August, 2008
VAR India
The week gone by has witnessed a spate of activities, which are historic and are going to be etched in the public memory for long. Let me start with the positive ones. Kick-start of Beijing Olympics...
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| Spotlight July 2008 |
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InterraIT's growing "Retail Expertise"
May, 2008
Digital Talk
The culture of organized retailing is doing rounds across the globe. However, almost all the existing retail entities in the developed markets of US, UK, Germany, France, Italy and Japan are combating...
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| Spotlight June 2008 |
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Feel Safe, Air-borne!!!
July, 2008
VAR India
A few days back, I happened to glance through an edition of Indian Express. I came across a rather exciting news piece. The caption which read "Security" that you can't see" caught my attention...
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| Spotlight May 2008 |
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Literally, Digitally Yours
June, 2008
VAR India
My steady traveling companions are laptop and, of course, a book of my choice, particularly when I travel long distances. My favorite reading stuffs are hardcore IT publications, inspirational books...
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| Spotlight May 2008 |
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Is There Any Life Beyond?
May, 2008
VAR India
I feel very perturbed about our waning scientific temper. I have solid reasons for that. How many of us have read the edit page article that had append in The Hindustan Times on 26th April,2008 titled “Space, the Final Frontier”...
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| Spotlight April 2008 |
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What that ticks!!!
April, 2008
VAR India
The other day I was in Hyderabad to attend a software event of an organization, which represents mostly the small and medium enterprises. It was an International Exhibition cum Conference, having participated by representatives of over 40 countries. Most of the foreign delegates...
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| Spotlight March 2008 |
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There is always a Next Time
March, 2008
VAR India
Those software entrepreneurs who had listened to the Budget speech of Finance Minister on 29th February, 2008 with a bated breadth was in for a shock. I was also one among them. All of us had though or were made to believe by the deluge of paper reports and some...
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| Spotlight February 2008 |
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Tough Times Never Last But Though People Do!!
February, 2008
VAR India
February, 2008
VAR India
Going by the sequence of events that were unveiled since the New Year, one gets the feel that the world economy is in the grip of a very difficult growth trajectory. Discussions on the US recession are now getting out of board rumors and gossips to public domain. Corporate are chalking out....
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| Spotlight January 2008 |
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My Apologies for being Light-hearted
January, 2008
VAR India
While I was writing this column, India won its first round in its war with Internatinal Cricket Council (ICC) triggered after the test cricket with Aussies at Perth. Harbhajan has been reinstated and Steve Buckner, the controversial umpire, has been given the boot...
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| Spotlight December 2007 |
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British Tabloid to hamlet off Hyderabad
December, 2007
VAR India
Two news items that had appeared recently - one in the Daily Mail, a British tabloid, and the other in the Times of India student edition on Thursday - captured my attention for different reasons. Let me talk first about the Daily Mail...
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| Spotlight November 2007 |
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InterraIT: Created a Niche in Global IT Consulting and Services Space
November, 2007
VAR India
With some path-breaking best practices like Individualized Corporation and flexi-timing, InterraIT has short to fame as one of the best places to work in. In fact, InterraIT has so many other credentials to hog the limelight of the...
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| Spotlight November 2007 |
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The only reasonable way to embark on any E-HR system
November-December, 2007
Human Factor
With some path-breaking best practices like Individualized Corporation and flexi-timing, InterraIT has short to fame as one of the best places to work in. In fact, InterraIT has so many other credentials to hog the limelight of the...
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| Spotlight September 2007 |
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InterraIT, the EAI Czar, embarks on rapid expansion drives in India
September, 2007
Digital Edge
InterraIT is fresh from celebrating its tenth anniversary. The ecstatic mood gets unabated as the company sets off on an audacious trajectory of growth and expansion in India. Not only has the company broadened its management teams in India and abroad....
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| Spotlight October 2007 |
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Delhi......Oh My Delhi
October, 2007
VAR India
The other day I was talking to a journalist of a famous broadsheet paper, which comes out daily. The journalist was slightly taken aback when I told him that I have not read this paper at all. But he remained cheerful and interrogative. Of course that is his job....
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| Spotlight Spetember 2007 |
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My Musings-Take or Leave IT
September, 2007
VAR India
There was a lull in the media regarding coverage of the information technology. Most of the papers had intensely covered the subject and some of them created a dedicated page for most of the days in a week. With the dot com bust a peel of enthusiasm ....
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| Spotlight August 2007 |
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Arbitrage vs Labor Arbitrage
August, 2007
VAR India
Even now rupee hardening and its impact on outsourcing; textile export etc are making news. No doubt, these are important issue. But I feel that Indian IT industry and media have overlooked some of the important developments that are unfolding...
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| Spotlight July 2007 |
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A Vote for Expatriate Work Permit
July, 2007
VAR India
The Indo-American Chamber of Commerce (IACC) with which I am deeply involved for quite some time (as the President of the North Indian Council and Presently a member of the central Executive Committee), has said what we have all recognized....
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| Spotlight June 2007 |
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Hype or Innovation - Which Way You Want to Tread?
June, 2007
VAR India
I would have missed out that story, which has come in the latest Business Week (June 11, 2007) since unknowingly I skipped three or four pages together. On hindsight, I thought of revisiting the pages since I felt I missed out a page...
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| Spotlight May 2007 |
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Start With Mac and End With A Coffee Maker
May 11, 2007
Hindustan Times (New Delhi Edition)
As A young manager in GTE, USA in 1984, the arrival of a Mac on my desk brought a new zing in my life. Long before the arrival of Adam Osborne's lap top, the Mac desktop was slick and easy to carry home virtually every day. And not even...
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| Spotlight March 2007 |
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A Parallel Net - Is it a Possibility?
March, 2007
VAR India
I toyed with several ideas for writing this column. Budget blues like FBT on ESOPs and MAT, fourth dimension, the central theme of a book Incredibly Believable, written by Dr. Sunny Satin, a futurologist and hypnotist blended into once- that..
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| Spotlight February 2007 |
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James Gray Went Missing
February, 2007
VAR India
Not many in India, except the hardcore computer buffs and professionals, would be re of James Gray, Principal Researcher at Microsoft, whose groundbreaking contribution to the scientific world is System R, which he pioneered while working for IBM..
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| Spotlight January 2007 |
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Unionization - IT Way
January, 2007
VAR India
I had written about unionization in the IT industry some months back in this column. The recent debate on the same subject, both in the media columns and the political circles, tempts me to treat this subject once again..
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