And Lord Ganesha comes today, amidst the roar of the drums and the chime of the cymbals, with dancing gaiety and shouting. He comes to innumerable street corners of the cities in varying shapes a...
http://shashwatdc.blogspot.com/2008/09/ganapati-bappa-morya.html
Ever since, I had come across the trailers of Rock On a month or so back, I was eagerly awaiting for the movie to hit the screens. In fact, the movie had compelled me to reach out to a couple of ...
Recently, I came across a piece on the Time Magazine website, authored by Simon Robinson (http://www.time.com/time/arts/article/0,8599,1817222,00.html ), wherein Simon talked about Anil Ambani's ...
http://shashwatdc.blogspot.com/2008/06/feature-ambani-and-tech-reliance.html
I was 16 and it was my mom's birthday. All of us were waiting for Papa to come home so that we could go out to Juhu beach followed by dinner at the Evening Post, a restaurant where prices were a ...
http://shashwatdc.blogspot.com/2008/05/feature-another-bomblasts-in-india.html
Before I wrote the story on Tibet, I went to Youtube and saw the video of the Tankman, times and again. I remember seeing the video clip as a teenager in one of the television shows, Pranoy Roy's...
http://shashwatdc.blogspot.com/2008/04/feature-fight-for-tibet-goes-online.html
Among the few places in India that I really wish to settle down in; Lakshadweep would be right on the top. A chain of 30 odd islands in the Arabian Sea, Lakshadweep is truly a coastal paradise. C...
http://shashwatdc.blogspot.com/2008/04/feature-e-governance-in-lakshadweep.html
As it is, interviewing a lawyer is a tough task. And if the lawyer heads an organization that is often embroiled in controvresies, the task becomes more onerous. This was my dilemma, as I started...
http://shashwatdc.blogspot.com/2008/03/interview-peter-dengate-thrush-icann.html
Imagine, if you could fold your computer screen like paper. Would we then ever need paper at all? For the past many years there has been a lot of work going along on foldable displays and other t...
http://shashwatdc.blogspot.com/2008/03/feature-of-foldable-screens-and-printed.html
Go to any part of India, and it is hard not to find a cell phone. If there is one revolution that has truly taken off in India, it is the mobile revolution. Indeed India has the fastest going mob...
http://shashwatdc.blogspot.com/2008/03/feature-moses-second-coming-tr35-3.html
Sitting there in auditorium of Taj Hotel, for some brief moments I found myself transmitted to Her Majesty's land, good ol' England. The Oxford University had organized an event in the city, wher...
http://shashwatdc.blogspot.com/2008/03/interview-lord-chris-patten.html
Here goes the second part of the 6 series on TR35 Winner. This time I talk about ad hoc networks , believe me it was one tough nut to crack. I earnestly thank Prithwish in helping me understand a...
http://shashwatdc.blogspot.com/2008/03/feature-networking-ad-hoc-way-tr35-2.html
Every year MIT's Technology Review comes out with an annual list of awardees, TR35. These are individuals who have broken new ground in the field they are working on be it genomics or semi-conduc...
http://shashwatdc.blogspot.com/2008/03/feature-unraveling-code-of-life-tr35-1.html
"The only way of discovering the limits of the possible is to venture a little way past them into the impossible," go one of Sir Arthur C Clarke's law. The renowned fiction writer and futurist di...
http://shashwatdc.blogspot.com/2008/03/feature-iucaa-digitizes-universe.html
Throughout my coversation with Douglas Engelbart, not once did I come across any negativity within the grand old of computing. Honestly, I had expected him to be angry, to be unhappy, to be frust...
http://shashwatdc.blogspot.com/2008/03/interview-douglas-engelbart.html
"WHO is this Berners-Lee, that you are so excited about?" my father queried. He had been quite surprised to have me talk incessantly about Sir Tim Berners-Lee and his achievements all time (espec...
http://shashwatdc.blogspot.com/2007/12/interview-sir-tim-berners-lee.html
IF some sociologist were to study the last few years of changing patterns of Indian society, surely he or she would be impressed and mystified by the impact of BPO on Indian youth. Not many moons...
http://shashwatdc.blogspot.com/2007/12/feature-bpo-employee-satisfaction.html
The other day, I received a very unusual mail. It was a press release from Larry Sanger, editor in chief of Citizendium and co-founder of Wikipedia. The press release read, "One year and thriving...
http://shashwatdc.blogspot.com/2007/12/interview-larry-sanger-citizendium.html
Here is the second part of the Future Cities story published in Dataquest. The stories written by me and featured herein are based on personal experience and secondary research. Suffice to say, t...
http://shashwatdc.blogspot.com/2007/11/feature-future-cities-of-india-ii.html
Getting to meet and interact with people from diverse cultures and different regions are certainly one of the biggest perks of being a journalist. People take time out for you, indulge you, talk,...
http://shashwatdc.blogspot.com/2007/11/feature-future-cities-of-india.html
To say that every Indian is obsessed with the Rupee would really be of no surprise, considering our very material existence depends on the currency that has the Mahatma printed on it. But, of lat...
http://shashwatdc.blogspot.com/2007/09/feature-rupee-vs-dollar.html
Getting to interact with Prof. Brandenburg was really a high-point for me. It was not only because he is renowned as the 'father of the MP3' (which he disputes), but also for the person he is, a ...
http://shashwatdc.blogspot.com/2007/09/interview-karlheinz-brandenburg.html
One of the biggest faced by governments across the globe battling terror is money laundering. How to stop the funding and transfer of funds to terror outfits? Post 9/11, a lot of measures have be...
http://shashwatdc.blogspot.com/2007/09/feature-anti-money-laundering-and-india.html
Radio Frequency Identification or RFID, has been in news for past many years but yet it remains an enigma. Walmart popularized the tags and entreprises were promised manna, freedom from manual tr...
http://shashwatdc.blogspot.com/2007/09/interview-krish-mantripada-rfid.html
Everyone talks of green nowadays; so you have green IT, green servers, green storage and now even greeen electronics. The vision is simple, move towards eco-friendly world, so many NGOs, especial...
http://shashwatdc.blogspot.com/2007/09/feature-green-electronics.html
Every year Dataquest in conjunction with IDC India, conducts a comprehensive HR survey titled as the Best Employer Survey (BES). The purpose is simple to gauge the latest trends in the IT industr...
http://shashwatdc.blogspot.com/2007/09/feature-indias-best-it-employers.html