Abhinav Bindra’s air pistol gold at the Olympics has made every Indian proud! But I have my quibbles. Do we really have a nationalistic character? Do we really stand up for someone talented and give him all the financial backing he needs to be a world beater? Take Bindra. His father spent crores of rupees…
First things first, hacking is perceived to be a dirty word. Well, there are two sides to it. There’s the good and the bad and I am on the side of good: ethical hacking. India’s hacking whizkid Ankit Fadia can not only train you and also certify you for two years if you take up…
The united colours of Pondicherry. Where foreigners and Indians live in harmony. Where French architecture is as appealing as Indian. Where nothing appears to stress a tourist, the least being the weather. Even if it rains without warning, you don’t mind because of the humidity and the beach next door. It’s a place where you…
A 50-year-old project manager at a tech firm in the US manages a fleet of engineers and earns a lot more than his Indian counterpart who ends up doing the same job with his engineers out here. Some call it discrimination; some dub it as the incompetency level of the Indian and some dispute all…
There’s a looming threat of misinformation in the Indian subcontinent. Most media houses are either run by businessmen with strong links to politicians or worse, run by the kurta-clad themselves. If it was a covert operation earlier, today the ownership is out in the open. Every political party worth its salt is trying to gather…
