Will all your base are belong to us?

July 5, 2011

A few days ago I wrote an essay as part of the writing class at the Young India Fellowship. The essay demanded that we take the central idea from one of the essays discussed in class, and use that to write about a personal experience referencing 2 other essays (including the one from which the [...]

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An audio mode for Youtube?

June 24, 2011

Why doesn’t Youtube have an audio mode? The wi-fi connection that we seemed to have in our hostel is not very reliable with speeds. And I have this habit of treating Youtube like a media player where I let the songs in my playlist go on. Possibly because Youtube is by far the largest repository [...]

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3 days with Sanjeev Aga

June 20, 2011

As part of the Young India Fellowship program, we spent the weekend in Sanjeev Aga’s company who recently stepped down as the MD of Idea Cellular (complete bio here). The session was a narrative. A rather long one. And that was the best part. I missed Day 1, but was keenly paying attention to every [...]

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Books corner on my Blog

June 7, 2011

I have always wanted to maintain a list of books I have finished reading. I have used Shelfari, Goodreads and some of the other portals (even 43 things long back) but realized that what I need is something rather elementary. So, Google Docs it is. Every time I finish reading a book, I enter it [...]

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From one college to another: The Young India Fellowship

May 21, 2011

In a couple of weeks I will be closing an important chapter in my life. I will be graduating from college; a wonderful 5 years that have changed my life for the better in ways I could only dream of. In many ways I’d say that I graduated from college last year since for the [...]

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Do your shit, but don’t forget the story

May 20, 2011

A friend of mine who runs a company walked into the doors of a VC firm. He had no business plan with him when he walked into the boardroom. All he had was a little video that his team mate had shot of his mother to demonstrate the problem they were tackling. A massive market [...]

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My Acupressure debut

May 15, 2011

One of the numerous benefits of working at a small organization like NEN are the little surprises that I am not accustomed to. Such as a special Acupressure session in between work hours. My surprise could be a result of my past work/study environments, which are: 1. A Multi-disciplinary healthcare think tank 2. A Government [...]

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BitTorrent Inc: Lousy monetization works well when you have more users than Twitter

April 28, 2011

I was always curious about how BitTorrent made it’s money. With nearly 40 million USD in investment (source Crunchbase) what exactly were they saying to the VCs? I have never paid a single rupee to Bittorrent, neither did I notice any form of advertising. So what was it? One look at the site might bring [...]

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Notes from the Kiruba Incident

April 23, 2011

One of the interesting (and obvious) things about the internet is unless you make the necessary arrangements, everything is out in the open for people to see. We might have personal beliefs or practices that we consider appropriate, however, divulging it out to the public might result in a backlash,  irrespective of your reputation. Something [...]

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Bangalore MIT Enterprising Forum’s Inaugural Discussion on the Grand Challenge of Education

April 22, 2011

Yesterday I attended the inaugural session of MIT’s Enterprise Forum. The Bangalore chapter is the first such chapter in India and focuses on the intersection of India, technology and entrepreneurship. The Enterprise Forum has identified 5 great challenges: Education, Healthcare, Financial Inclusion, Agriculture, Infra/Energy.  Kickstarting with Education, which they will focus on for next 3-4 [...]

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