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A few of the magical ingredients of what makes Silicon Valley unique is the easy access to mentors and investors. I turned to Yogen Dalal an engineer-turned entrepreneur-turned venture capitalist to find out the answers to many unanswered questions. Yogen came to Silicon Valley in the early 1970s to study at Stanford University. He is the Managing [...]

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Using Bollywood songs to promote literacy is an innovative and powerful idea, and is the brainchild of Brij Kothari. The hallmark of every Hindi or Bollywood film are the popular song and dance sequences, which most people can either recognize, sing or hum regardless of their level of education.
Brij hit upon this novel idea of [...]

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Privacy online is a big hot button issue these days. Much before it went mainstream, Adam Greenfield has been talking about and wrote a  fascinating book called, “Everyware.” Currently he is head of design direction for service and user-interface design at Nokia, Finland.
Adam says everyware is “information processing embedded in the objects and surfaces of [...]

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In Part-2 of the interview Nandan Nilekani talks the changing dynamics of Indian political landscape, especially in the federal-state relationship. What can India learn from China? What is needed for India to move forward? What is missing? These were some of the questions he answered.
In case you missed, you can listen to Part-1 of the conversation, [...]