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If we can come up with ways of sharing property rights on the internet, why not do something similar in urban spaces, asks Ajit Balakrishnan.
Is the internet just a fun thing to do like TV and radio?
Ajit Balakrishnan recalls some lessons from the last time people talked of 'convergence' -- the mid-1990s.
As the new ecommerce paradigm works its way through multiple sectors of the economy it is likely to encounter legal challenges, says Ajit Balakrishnan.
We are all 'Chasing the Monsoon', notes Ajit Balakishnan.
A new book may help companies in getting corporate social responsibility right, notes Ajit Balakrishnan.
The polytechnic graduate is on the front line of our war to establish a vibrant manufacturing sector in India, says Ajit Balakrishnan.
Students' flagging interest in the written word is because of a generational digital divide, says Ajit Balakrishnan.
Why, centuries after the French Revolution promised an end to feudalism, do political dynasties persist -- even in democracies, asks Ajit Balakrishnan.
Silicon Valley is at the heart of the transformation of the global economy -- which has both winners and losers, writes Ajit Balakrishnan.
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In India, the need to find a solution for the jobs problem is perhaps even more urgent considering the oft-quoted number of a million young people arriving every month looking for jobs.
Diu, along India's west coast, is one of the most beautiful and serene places in the country says a Rediff reader
Across the world, middle class families are dealing with the consequences of competition to get into high-quality institutions.
Regulating the internet only as a medium is somewhat similar to regulating electricity only as a driver of the TV industry
What will it take to get India's poor broadband penetration to be seen as a problem and not as a condition, thus enabling real, serious e-commerce to take off in India?
A Rediff reader recently travelled to Bihar's remote naxal effected district of Jamui... to attend a wedding! Snapshots from an unforgetful journey
The international investors who are investing, merging and shaping India's new ecommerce start-ups are betting that if China can produce an Alibaba with an expected market value of $ 170+ billion market value when it does its IPO, India should produce at least one or two with a $5bn+ market value, says Ajit Balakrishnan.
Facebook owns WhatsApp and Microsoft owns Skype, the two services that are at the centre of the current "net neutrality battle".
Ajit Balakrishnan rewinds to a decade when mobile phones were unheard of and when an IIM degree had a different purpose and value.
The Information Technology Act needs another tweak to allow a different kind of information intermediary to flourish, says Ajit Balakrishnan.
India needs to build an economic system that will provide adequate capital to budding entrepreneurs, says Ajit Balakrishnan.
Overseas education consultant NNS Chandra offers you advice on how to pick the right international education.
India will have to deal with the question of whether broadband service providers are 'common carriers', like highways.
How did Greece, the country of Archimedes and Socrates and Plato and Pythagoras, come to such dire straits, asks Ajit Balakrishnan.
May be the strong United States growth will lead the world back to a period of growth and help us all put this painful recrimination behind us.
Retirement blues can sometimes result in actions that are dysfunctional, notes Ajit Balakrishnan.
And then we are in our mid-60s and a time of reckoning with one's life - if one believes in Erikson.
Celebrity nutritionists Niti Desai will be available to provide diet tips for a healthy heart Wednesday October 8, 2014, between 3 pm and 4 pm.
The e-commerce marketplace is like an information intermediary these days.
The American university, once the envy of the world, is in crisis, notes Ajit Balakrishnan in his latest column.
Now, the world over, policymakers are dusting off their copies of Keynes' classic, The General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money, and figuring out whether there are any answers there to our own challenges of growing our economies.
Neither pharma nor IT would have become the stars of the economy without the active but largely invisible hand of the Indian State, says Ajit Balakrishnan.
Successful parents are increasingly faced with continuing to support children in their 20s or 30s.
The step forward in marketing could be a move to bypass the media and towards owning it directly, says Ajit Balakrishnan.
Whether history will remember Edward Snowden as a traitor to his country or as a champion for free speech and less intrusive government is hard to tell, but the issues he has brought into focus need deep thought, writes Ajit Balakrishnan
'The boy has remained so simple. Still wearing that sweater and light pants. He doesn't even have a decent pair of shoes! So much like one of us! How can we not give him another chance?' 'And what is Modi Sir doing? He changes clothes three times a day and wears designer clothes. He isn't the son of a simple chaiwallah we voted for.'
The government is by far the largest employer; job security is guaranteed for government employees, and their wages are set through once-in-10-year Pay Commission.
In leading companies in Information Age industries, the word "manager" is taking on a pejorative meaning -- something like "zamindar" -- a man who lived off other people's work and did no work himself, says Ajit Balakrishnan.
Senior journalist Sandeep Unnithan, author of Black Tornado, a semi-official account of the 26/11 attacks, was on Rediff.com chat on November 26. In what was a frank and instructive interaction Rediff users spoke to the scribe about his views on the status of security and possible upgrades to the same.
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