In the pre-cloud era people dedicated time to maintaining well cataloged diaries to record birthdays, tasks, maintain contacts and meeting notes. Today people directly assign tasks to you, birthday reminders pop out of nowhere and contact information is automatically synced based on people’s Facebook profiles. Tiny droplets make an ocean and today we have the…More
Never remember never forget
Today everyone is forgetful. I don’t remember birthdays, holidays, meetings and my tasks for the day. My faithful smart phone does it for me. Three thousand years back the Vedas, a Hindu religious text, was handed down generations by word of mouth and took a lifetime to perfect. Generations were dedicated to carrying the body…More
One for all to all for me
Pre-Cloud the world assumed people in general are the same, you had one news paper, one News channel and people ran the same trail for years. Today everything from your news to your coffee is personalized. You determine how much milk you want in your coffee and the temperature if you may. You chose your…More
The old world and the new
One might wonder, if people had the same routine for the last 60 years, what has changed? People have been reading the news, the weather report, going to coffee shops and meetings since the last 100 years, so why are we so plugged in? Because depending on how you look at it everything has changed…More
Living in the cloud
Us humans have walked the planet earth for over 200,000 years. In this time we have seen a stone age, bronze age, the industrial revolution and now we are entering a new age which is just as pivotal, what could be called the age of the cloud. Yet when you live through each day so…More
Hello world!
Welcome to WordPress.com. After you read this, you should delete and write your own post, with a new title above. Or hit Add New on the left (of the admin dashboard) to start a fresh post. Here are some suggestions for your first post. You can find new ideas for what to blog about by…More
Indian IT services industry, the way forward
India’s growth story As India continues to grow and surpass unchartered territories one tends to wonder is the trend likely to last forever? The ruling government projects that we will average a growth rate upwards of 8% for the next decade and replicate a China like growth story. One might argue that if China can,…More
IPL auction : Country, cricket, dollars and more drama
Country, cricket or just dollars? There’s still a generation that firmly believes cricket must be played for the pride of the country, not for money. In fact some of them feel IPL cricketers are overpaid and that’s hastening retirement in cricket. I suggest let us take an honest look at the numbers in comparison to…More
Corruption out paces India’s growth
India’s economy grows at 8% and corruption at 11.5%. One wonders, what could happen if India never had corruption? For one we will be the 8th largest economy in the world (we are currently 11th) not taking into consideration what could have been if the money was efficiently invested. Our public debt currently 58% of…More
Who’s the greatest of them all
“Who is the world’s greatest batsman?” is a question that has kept many a cricket commentators busy. The players of yester years talk about Bradman’s genius, in fact bradmanesque became an expression often used to describe a perfect innings. Then in the 70s an era when fast bowlers dominated world cricket, a man rather short…More
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