Dear Abhishek, I love your life. You wake up whenever you feel like sometime between 6 and 7 am. Unless you decide that 5:30 am is also a good time to be up and about. The responsibility of managing you early mornings is mine. We sit at the window, read books, play with toys, or … Continue reading TECH TALK: Letter to a Two-Year-Old: A Day in Your Life
For me, 2005 was an eventful year. Abhishek was born, the Emergic Ecosystem came to life, and Netcore began its metamorphosis. Abhisheks birth this year was perhaps the most important personal event in my life for a long time. I wrote about the circumstances leading to his birth in a post (not a Tech Talk) … Continue reading TECH TALK: The Best of Tech Talk 2005: Abhishek
3. Remove Anti-dumping duty on import of old PCs There is a $200 anti-dumping duty on the import of old computers into India. Why? To protect a non-existent domestic manufacturing industry? India needs cheaper computers. If Intel and Microsoft, who between them control the processor and operating system for the computers, will not bring down … Continue reading TECH TALK: Letter to Arun Shourie (Part 3)
The Internet is altering leisure time and communications. Email and Instant Messaging (IM) are creating links with people whom we otherwise may not have contacted. A decade ago, letter-writing was seemingly the only cost-effective to bridge distances between friends and family. Then came email. For a generation, the first whiff of typing was to send … Continue reading TECH TALK: Leisure and Entertainment: Internet
