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View All1995 was a watershed year for me. I seamlessly transitioned from the corporate life, to the life of a free spirited angel investor. Also,…
1987 started with a bang. The stock market had been surging. Dow crossed 2000 for the first time. Microsoft and Sun MicroSystems had gone…
By the year 2000, having an Indian boss in Silicon valley was finally seen as a normal thing. At Excelan in 1985, I used to…
An Agenda for a New India This post originally appeared in SiliconIndia on February, 2001 Indians are smart and creative people. They have also proven to…
DOT Hatao, Desh Bachao: Get rid of the Dept of Telecom to save the country This was my clarion call to reform telecom sector.…
I graduated from Michigan Tech in the summer of 1969. I got a couple of job offers, and took one with EAI in New Jersey. It…
Rajiv became the fifth Prime Minister of India in 1984 after the murder of his mother India Gandhi. He had no political experience, he…
I almost forgot to mention the two main events of the summer of 1969: the moon landing and the Woodstock festival in upstate New…
India has had 15 prime minsters since independence. 6 have served a full term or more. I wanted to reflect and assess their performance,…
India Confronts Its Own Intolerance By KANWAL REKHI and HENRY S. ROWEN, May 23, 2002 12:01 a.m. ET As India and Pakistan teeter once again…
I ended up in Chicago in the summer of 1968, with $10 in my pocket. I had been at Michigan Tech for 9 months,…
Indira Gandhi was the third Prime Minister of India; not counting Guljari Lal Nanda who succeeded Lal Bahadur Shastri as an interim prime minister…
Thinking back to this tour de force of an article in Fortune Magazine dated May 15, 2000. It was titled “The Indians Of Silicon…