Around this time last year, I was invited to speak at the national launch of e.go range of notebooks by Wipro. The event was interesting for many reasons.....

For our recent hiring exercise, we were researching the syllabi of Indian universities for a particular specialty in computer science....

I discovered I live in an interesting neighbourhood. Someone was pining for their valentine, someone else was enjoying a sumptuous meal at an obscure restaurant,...

If I were to Tweet my take away from the movie 3 Idiots it would be `Make your passion your profession / job early in lyfe and Aal will be Vell ever aftr'...

As I detailed in my last two columns, there are challenges aplenty, but it is clear that India needs the Japanese IT business and Japan needs to plug into the great Indian Outsourcing engine..

Everytime there is a ecession or slowdown in the western markets, it has become customary for our CEOs to make a Japan announcement..

My Japanese friend Yuka Kitagami was visiting over the weekend. She and I had worked in the Japanese market for many years and had played a role in the Japanese foray of one of India's leading companies.

An interesting combination of genesis, history, and environment has concocted a situation in India where BPOs don't get due recognition.

Afew years ago we were looking for a match for my younger brother, in an arranged marriage framework. A prospective bride was from a middle class family employed in a reputed MNC.....

My first contact with the antipodean world was in 1999 when we were building satellite phone software for an Australian company. Later, I held business responsibility for the region and visited many times....

It takes a lot of innovation, guts and shrewd marketing savvy to seriously challenge incumbents, especially in an industry like the well consolidated music orchestra business of today...

Looking into this rear view mirror is a nice thing — especially if you are a long standing incumbent in India’s IT and BPO services export industry..

The slowdown in IT/ITeS exports and healthy growth in the overall Indian economy is an interesting combo for India — not for its primary impact but for the side effects.

Let’s face it: We all hate being laid off. More than the job or financial loss, it is the ‘laid off’ label that rankles more. Take away the stigma, and a layoff becomes a routine demand-supply business situation.

As a society we aren’t designed to handle layoffs well. Of course, one could argue that we also aren’t designed to handle sex-education, gay rights, privatisation of Air-India ...

For me, there are three iconic companies of the Internet era - Netscape, YouTube, and Google.

There is a new buffalo in Bengaluru and it will take back all the jobs offshored from America; it would then stand guard at the American portal to ensure there are no more jobs for Indians.