'Rapists do have families. I wanted to see how a father or mother would deal with it.' 'They go through shame as well and get discriminated from the rest of the village.' 'Why don't we show it that way?'
CEO of Rediff.com, Ajit Balakrishnan answers some of the questions you asked him.
Ajit Balakrishnan on keeping an eye on democratising finance in India.
Tuition classes: Saviours or demons, asks Ajit Balakrishnan.
Mothers' advice from 50 years ago reappears, notes Ajit Balakrishnan.
Ajit Balakrishnan on how to arrest a worldwide decline.
Why hasn't India produced a single earth-shaking idea like Python or the World Wide Web, asks Ajit Balakrishnan.
... and I learn more about economic trends than from books, says Ajit Balakrishnan.
As the industrial era wanes, the network era looms, notes Ajit Balakrishnan.
The splendid rock figures around Cappadocia and the silent, eternal ruins of Ephesus made a trip to Turkey even more memorable.
Ajit Balakrishnan, chief executive officer & chairman, rediff.com, will ring the opening bell at the Nasdaq Stock Market on Monday, October 9, 2006.
Blockchain's promise: Dramatically speeding up transactions, explains Ajit Balakrishnan.
... As the world swings from 'financialisation' to 'artificial intelligence', asks Ajit Balakrishnan.
...Are algos taking over from 'shoeshine and a smile', asks Ajit Balakrishnan.
Ajit Balakrishnan offers a thinking man's guide to the state of ecom in a nation of shopkeepers.
... Are far-reaching social changes coming with it, asks Ajit Balakrishnan.
Are we running a cricket match using football rules, asks Ajit Balakrishnan.
Why do Innovation Revolutions happen outside India, asks Ajit Balakrishnan.
Ajit Balakrishnan on learning from past technology revolutions.
True sustainable growth can come only through an increase in productivity, and such increases can happen only through innovations, technical and organisational, in all sectors of the economy - industry, services and agriculture, writes Ajit Balakrishnan.
An FTC discussion paper proposes radical measures such as tightening copyright laws to prevent search engines from showing news search results without paying the newspaper concerned, and enabling news organisations to jointly rect 'paywalls' that force consumers to pay for news consumption on the Internet, and asks if it's time to reinvent the business of journalism, writes Ajit Balakrishnan
Today we use statistical methods for purposes as computing GDP & planning healthcare & education, but statistical methods originated with much darker motives.
When we have 30,000-plus colleges and scores of research labs, why is it that we do not produce a steady stream of Nobel Prize winners?
Ajit Balakrishnan on the surprising drivers of mathematical innovation.
The Good Road, says Ajit Balakrishnan, is an amazing film. Read on to find out why.
The causes for and solutions to India's manufacturing angst may not lie in high land costs, excessively labour-friendly laws or excessive taxes.
Do India's laws governing the Internet need revolutionary change, asks Ajit Balakrishnan.
"I tell all my guys in the office to see this as running a marathon. The front runners are a million times our size. In a marathon, you don't run in front of the pack; you stay in the back and wait for your turn, otherwise you'll run out of steam."
Unstated assumption is that the job applicant is in some way responsible for his employability problem, says Ajit Balakrishnan.
Things like the increase in worker diversity can only be all to the good, but what about the steadily rising proportion of 'temporary' workers? Asks Ajit Balakrishnan.
Characters that populate his novels, preoccupations they have, ambitions they nurse and obstacles they encounter are all endearingly those of today's real-life India, says Ajit Balakrishnan
The massive buyers of gold in the past two years have not been the distressed farmers or the manual scavengers, writes Ajit Balakrishnan.
Are breakthroughs on this imminent, asks Ajit Balakrishnan.
'The new Information Technology Act with the requisite power to allow the Indian State to deal with Information Age challenges was passed by Parliament, without debate, within a month of the Taj crisis.' An exclusive excerpt from The Wave Rider: A Chronicle of the Information Age, one of the most important books published in India this year.
After all, he had already, in the short three years that he had worked for us, in the middle of a punishing schedule of writing algorithms crucial for our business, found the time and energy to write two articles for international peer-reviewed journals and co-author with me a chapter in a book of readings on collective intelligence edited by a prominent US academic.
Internet businesses, including cybercafes, now stand protected because Section 79 classifies them as 'intermediaries' -- not holding them responsible for what people view and upload.
Does IAS officers' work go unappreciated, asks Ajit Balakrishnan.
Filtering of websites has now been introduced as a discussable topic. The current battle is about who will control the most visible and glamorous layer, the content layer.
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