London-based journalist and author Jules Stewart’s second book titled, Spying For The Raj: The Pundits And The Mapping of the Himalayas was released in 2006.  Sir Ranulph Fiennes, who is listed as the world’s greatest living explorer by the Guinness Book of Records, has written the forward for the book.
I caught up with Jules in London in [...]

Micky (Muktesh) Pant talks about marketing, Reebok’s Terry Tate advertisement for Super Bowl 2003, and his mother Shivani, a noted Hindi writer, who passed away in March 2003.

Micky grew up in Nainital in Uttaranchal. After graduating with an MTech in Chemical Engineering from IIT-Kanpur, Micky joined Hindustan Levers in 1976, and has spent 30 years [...]

Ira Pande talks about her mother, the well-known Hindi writer Shivani (Gaura Pant).
Last year, Ira wrote a book called Diddi as a homage to her mother. Through the book Ira tries to discover her enigmatic mother, known as “diddi,” or elder sister.
In this book we see a public portrait of Shivani emerge through the eyes [...]

Internet search is heating up, and there is a new technology company that wants to change the current search landscape. Listen to Venky Harinarayan talk about his new search company Kosmix based in Mountain View, CA.
Last month the company came out of its stealth mode and unveiled its new search engine product at Demo, an [...]