Is the future of education leaving India in the dust?

The digital revolution in education is coming at a most opportune time for India. Leadership in this is something India could seize, if only it had the vision, feels Rajeev Srinivasan. Part I: Why......

Indian guilty of attack on US firm servers

An Indian computer programmer was convicted on Wednesday by a federal jury of planting a virus on Fannie Mae computer servers to destroy theAmericanmortgage giant's data. Rajendrasinh Babubhai......

My father, my friend

He welcomed me: Abhinetri, 26 years ago, not having the least idea I would one day be an artiste.He taught me: A most loved and forgetful biology teacher by profession, he taught me not just at......

Unix's revenge

I was personally rather astonished to hear that Sun Microsystems and Microsoft had buried the hatchet in their long running war of words. This startled me, because I had become used to Sun being......

Shiv Nadar steps down from HCL board, named Chairman Emeritus

HCL Technologies on Monday said its founder Shiv Nadar will take on the role of Chairman Emeritus and Strategic Advisor to the company's board. Nadar, chief strategy officer and managing director......

All about the mystery of job creation

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.    No topic engages the attention......

Why do we need to worry about e-commerce start-ups

  The spectacle of young men and women imbued with a get-rich-quick ethos and dreams of laziness is disturbing, notes Ajay Shah Everyone loves the computer revolution. We extol the greatness......

Hail the invisible hand of the State

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. The current debate in India about how to......