Ajit Balakrishnan

Needed: 10,000 Angel Investors

The Center for Venture Research estimates that there are about 200,000 angel investors in the United States. By this count, India needs at least 10,000 of them.

The Next Big Business Idea

In a world awash with capital everyone is out hunting for the next Big Business Idea.

Ellen gets outsourced

How is it that Western society is willing to pay the short-term price for technological progress and we, in India, find it so tough?

The magic of Ayurveda

Ayurveda! I am as supportive as the next guy of traditional Indian culture and things.

Field notes from an evening out

How some people use the levers of control at clubs and elite schools to weather waves of change.

The last days of an IIM professor

A future with Hindi in English script?

Who is reading my mail?

My friend Dilip, the cable operator