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Nasscom Emergeout – My Takeaways

I had been to Nasscom Emergeout (theme: Mobile Internet) this week and it was a pleasure meeting all the wonderful people and entrepreneurs. The facilities were awesome except that the space in the dining area proved too short due to the large gathering. May be a good problem to have? I have jotted down some important takeaways…

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Improving Job Potential After Your Engineering/MBA

I was recently chatting with a few friends (Abhishek and Pallav, owners of various IT companies) and the topic of short-listing candidates with good job potential based on their CVs. We were pretty unanimous that while we do take a cursory glance at the academic scores and colleges from where they have studied, we mostly…

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Can Twitter Change The Way India Works?

I recently participated in an interesting panel discussion on “Can Twitter Change The Way India works?” organised by IndiaTC. The panelists were Abhijit Dasgupta, Subrata Sen, Abhishek Rungta, Aniruddha Chatterjee and Arun Agrawal (yours sincerely) 😛 It was very efficiently compered by Simarprit Singh. We had a hotly debated discussion with Abhijit and Subrata pretty…

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Are you checking your business and personal health regularly?

Recently my wife was diagnosed with a pretty serious ailment requiring a long and expensive treatment. We got wind of this during one of the master health check ups. Another close relative, whom we literally forced to undergo a health check up discovered major thyroid deficiency. This reminded me of the age-old maxim – “A…