‘Startup Talk’ at IIT Madras
IIT Madras is conducting its technical festival, Shaastra from January 4-7, which includes a “Green Energy Summit”, a program for experts and student enthusiast...
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Thoughts on Gandhi Jayanti: ‘My Mother’s Fault’ by Salil Tripathi
My Mother’s Fault, from Salil Tripathi’s Offence: The Hindu Case, published with permission from (and gratitude to) the author:
Unlimited Opportunities for ISRO: Public-Private Partnerships in Space
Earlier this month, the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) announced that it is working at preparing a business model to partner with industries – public...
What’s the best sentence ever formed?
UK’s the Independent newspaper recently published my answer to this Quora question on their website. The answer was: I didn’t say she stole my money. This sente...
The Modern Indian Looks Back: A Conversation around The Ekkos Clan
In the high altitudes of the snow mountain lives the powerful Indar. He uses his weapons, the thunderbolt and fire, to break into pieces the glaciers that crawl...
Pax Indica: India, meet world
Non-fiction/Pax Indica by Shashi Tharoor, Penguin/Allen Lane, 449 pp; Rs799 (Hardback) Excellent review of #PaxIndica by @ShreyGoyal : http://t.co/jBupTGolEF — ...
Rendezvous With Destiny
There is a mysterious cycle in human events. To some generations much is given. Of other generations much is expected. This generation of Americans has a rendez...
‘Funny and Disturbing’
I recently read Aman Sethi’s A Free Man. Insightful, humorous, and disturbing, this work of non-fiction is the story of millions of invisible men that tha...
The Making of Modern India, One Essay at a Time
I recently attended the launch of India Since 1947: Looking Back at a Modern Nation, and picked up a copy. Anthology/Non-fiction; India since 1947: Looking Bac...
Atonement: Indian Microfinance Looks Inward — My article in this week’s Sunday Guardian
I recently gave my two cents on the microfinance industry in India, with reference to Microfinance India: State of the Sector Report 2012 by Venugopalan Puhazhe...