The Ephemeral Nature of Digital Knowledge: How Secure is Your Content?
shashiIn today's digital age, we often feel like we "own" the content we subscribe to on OTT platforms, download from YouTube, or even print out as DIY guidebooks for our…
Rockets Agile Practices and Risks
Woke up today to the news of the SpaceX rocket getting destroyed in a pre-launch fire. SpaceX has made commendable progress in establishing commercial space launches after NASA let go of…
The Great Arc
In history, regimes can't be classified in binary. Their activities, actions and achievements have to be summed contextually. Even then, without accounting for multiple perspectives, judging a regime as good…
The day when I practised “Mentalism”
Probably the earliest instance of telepathy :-p The other day I was watching a show on mentalism on National Geographic. Though sceptical about such shows most of which seem to…
Solstice at Panipat
Reading the book "Solstice at Panipat" made me reflect upon the fact about how history takes a bird's eye view of one's lifetime. And how most of how details of…
Rethinking the Indian Telecom Sector
I have been observing the Telecom/Internet Infastructure in India both as a former vendor to service providers and also as a customer. I am of the firm opinion that in…
Bazaar in the Cathedral – Changing faces of Open Source Software
Some time ago - not too long ago - contributors to Open Source Software - nay Free Software - used to be highly motivated geeks mainly driven by the need…
Comments on the Government’s Draft Open Source Policy
It is heartening to note that the new Government is trying hard to involve people in more and more of their policy initiatives. One such initiative is their "Policy on…
Frugal Innovation and Android One
Android One looks to be the perfect example for global companies pondering overFrugal Innovation. The project seems to have got quite a few things absolutely right. The consumer price point…
Apple should buy Amazon. Here’s why!
Well, not the whole, but their entire technology division - including cloud and hardware. 'Apple is a great hardware company, but are clueless when it comes to software' - is…