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...- Read Article
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...- Read Article
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...- Read Article
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...- Read Article
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...- Read Article
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...- Read Article
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...- Read Article
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...- Read Article
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”...- Read Article
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...- Read Article
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...- Read Article
Tough Times Never Last But Though People Do!! 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...- Read Article
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...- Read Article
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...- Read Article
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...- Read Article
The only reasonable way to embark on any E-HR system November-December, 2007 Human Factor If the HR systems of Onward Technologies were dysfunctional and needed a major overhaul, then Meera would have been considered as saviour and would have received the applause, she was dreaming about. In fact CEO would...- Read Article
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....- Read Article
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....- Read Article
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 ....- Read Article
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....- Read Article
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....- Read Article
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...- Read Article
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...- Read Article
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..- Read Article
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..- Read Article
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..- Read Article
