Ajit Balakrishnan, founder and CEO, Rediff.com, is the author of The Wave Rider, A Chronicle of the Information Age. You can e-mail the author at ajitb@rediffmail.com
'Defence funding is channelled to State-owned research organisations where scientists are merely bureaucrats holding meetings and sending out minutes of meetings and press releases, but have long ago stopped any innovative work.' 'Unless this tragedy is fixed, India's chances to create world-conquering and job-creating new industries are slim,' says Ajit Balakrishnan.
Up in the Sky, Helicopter Stories takes us through the exotic and even charming world that Nitin Sathe has lived as an Indian Air Force pilot, says Ajit Balakrishnan.
Should we really pay attention to them, asks Ajit Balakrishnan.
The current focus on data to measure marketing success could herald the end of an era -- or the beginning of a hype cycle, says Ajit Balakrishnan.
And if you have started wondering why such innovations come only from American companies, Ajit Balakrishnan offers the answer.
Ajit Balakrishnan decodes the angst-ridden discourse of the day.
Ajit Balakrishnan offers a recipe for creating 100,000 plus angel investors in India.
'I had no idea that behind the charming, ever smiling Goan faces, there is so much complexity and history!' says Ajit Balakrishnan.
Enabling the online booking and payment for Indian Railway tickets is one such case. Amitabh Pandey's book is about how he went about enthusing teams inside the Indian Railways and facilitating online reservations, says Ajit Balakrishnan.
Can business schools re-invent their role, asks Ajit Balakrishnan.
Is it time to take a relook at our economic theories? asks Ajit Balakrishnan.
A breakthrough will come from what we teach and how, says Ajit Balakrishnan.
Or is all of media being re-invented, asks Ajit Balakrishnan.
Ajit Balakrishnan on the emerging crisis in the tech world.
Complicated social phenomena behind it, says Ajit Balakrishnan.
Indian policy-makers must see the choices before them as economic, not moral, ones, says Ajit Balakrishnan.
Ajit Balakrishnan on how the Web could return to its original egalitarian goals.
Is it likely that one of these days, a demand may rise that only truthful endorsement should be made in media and that if it is discovered that she or he in real life does not use that brand, punishment may follow, asks Ajit Balakrishnan.
'Is the tech wonder of our times headed for trouble?' asks Ajit Balakrishnan.
The world awaits a creative breakthrough for mobile phone ads, says Ajit Balakrishnan.
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