This is a 2-part interview with Oscar winner AR Rahman. An intensely private person, AR was pretty candid in this 2-part interview where he talks about his journey as a musician. AR entered the Indian film industry as a young boy, and through sheer hard work and determination rose to become one of the top [...]

How are marketing heads in Silicon Valley adopting to the new, tough economic environment? What are their marketing weapons of choice in this brave, new world?  Social media and Web 2.0 are the weapons of choice for some of the marketing heads in major corporations and start-ups. How are companies effectively using these new tools [...]

On April 16th, 2009 the first phase of the voting for the Indian general elections will begin and conclude on May 13th, 2009. This is the 15th general elections in India since it became independent in 1947. There are 714 million people that are eligible to vote. About 1,368,430 electronic voting machines have been deployed [...]

Change is in the air in India as the country gears itself for its general elecions and a new government that will be formed in June.  Many political observers and pundits are busy underscoring the fact that is India’s first digital elections. Well, in a way it is. In the previous elections held in 2004 [...]

Mumbai (Bombay) the financial and financial attack of India came under a series of coordinated terrorist attacks that started in South Mumbai or “town” as denizens of the city call their downtown. CNN has labeled these attacks as de-centralized, well coordinated and synchronized. This was a low-level terrorist attack that used grenades and handguns. As [...]

What caught my eye on my Gmail chat window was this message: “Hiring: $1500 Referral Fee.” I had not seen that kind of message in a long time. Why, it reminded me of the mid 1990s when companies could not find the right people and it was not uncommon for companies to offer a referral [...]

 Thanks for your continuing support and encouragement without which we would not be able to move forward. We are doing  a 12-part online radio series with Mint for their LiveMint Radio Show that is launching next week. The series is titled “Tune In To The Future.” The first 3 guests on the show are Yogen [...]

LiveJournal, an open source blogging platform is expanding its footprint in India and recently launched a community for their users in India. LiveJournal has ambitious plans for localization by providing translation and multilingual interfaces to its bloggers and readers. While English is the dominant language for Indian bloggers there has been an increase in the [...]

In this Sunday’s TechLife column in Financial Express the topic is virtual Bollywood and how there is now a new class of Bollywood fans that has been made possible by the spread of Internet and web 2.0 technologies. This new undiscovered class of Bollywood fans are the new age movie goers and I am wondering [...]

Pingdom’s recent post about Social Network Popularity Around The World has created quite a bit of buzz. This mini-study looked at the popularity of some well-known social networks around the world. An important thing to remember is that this study was based on search and not by the number of users for each of these [...]