Ajit Balakrishnan on the emerging crisis in the tech world.
Perhaps one aspect of the way modern media particularly print and news television works need some soul-searching: Their tendency to "frame" news stories as a conflict between two personalities, says Ajit Balakrishnan.
Is it time to take a relook at our economic theories? asks Ajit Balakrishnan.
Or is all of media being re-invented, asks Ajit Balakrishnan.
Can business schools re-invent their role, asks Ajit Balakrishnan.
"You will have a lot of elephants and a lot of mice and nothing mid-sized."
GE Capital International Services, a wholly-owned subsidiary of General Electric Company, USA, announced the launch of its latest IT-enabled services facility in Hyderabad on Wednesday.
Infrastructure for all-IP next-generation, wireless broadband infrastructure across all the 29 states in India is being laid, says Mukesh.
Complicated social phenomena behind it, says Ajit Balakrishnan.
Ajit Balakrishnan on how the Web could return to its original egalitarian goals.
'Is the tech wonder of our times headed for trouble?' asks Ajit Balakrishnan.
Indian policy-makers must see the choices before them as economic, not moral, ones, says Ajit Balakrishnan.
Pope Francis has been named Time magazine's Person of the Year for 2013.
Silicon Valley is at the heart of the transformation of the global economy -- which has both winners and losers, writes Ajit Balakrishnan.
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?
India will have to deal with the question of whether broadband service providers are 'common carriers', like highways.
The world awaits a creative breakthrough for mobile phone ads, says Ajit Balakrishnan.
Ajit Balakrishnan on how Indian society and the polity need to be carried along.
Ajit Balakrishnan reflects on pariahs, small businesses, and blockchains.
Ajit Balakrishnan on mapping the Business Serengeti.
'The digital age has forced diplomats to be less formal and more accessible, reaching out to ordinary people both within and outside their countries, combining statecraft with streetcraft,' says former foreign secretary Ambassador Shyam Saran.
A minor fix in tax laws can make start-ups bloom, says Ajit Balakrishnan.
A minor fix in tax laws can make start-ups bloom, says Ajit Balakrishnan.
The assembly election results on May 19 altered India's political landscape and with it dented Janata Dal-United leader Nitish Kumar's prime ministerial ambitions.
The processes that create a seven per cent-plus GDP growth rate without a similar growth in jobs are far from fully understood, says Ajit Balakrishnan.
Ajit Balakrishnan on understanding the anti-cash chorus.
Failure is something that needs to be managed as carefully as success.
Steve Case's book is filled with insightful scenes that describe how the modern online industry was put together, notes Ajit Balakrishnan.
Perhaps, the most misunderstood aspect is the role of the state.
The middle class's long push to force the state to retreat from the economy may be reversing, says Ajit Balakrishnan.
A more rigorous training in core skills is required to boost the engineering talent in the country, instead of a varnish of 'soft skills', says Ajit Balakrishnan.
The power to cause societal pain, at least to some segments of society, is intrinsic to the nature of technological innovation.
Startups in India need low-cost debt for working capital, which is impossible to get.
Is the internet just a fun thing to do like TV and radio?
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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.
'If the BJP thinks they can suppress the farmers' movement by opening fire, they are wrong.' 'It will create a boomerang effect which will be very difficult to manage.'
Ajit Balakrishnan recalls some lessons from the last time people talked of 'convergence' -- the mid-1990s.
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