Truly one of India's 20th and 21st Century industrial success story is of Tata Steel. The first time I read about them was in the earlier book of R.M.Lala " Creation of Wealth ", which was more of an overview of entire Tata Group. In his new book " The Romance of Tata Steel "...

I have never been into reading poetry, poems or other forms of heavy literature. I have only read Shakespeare's works in few chapters in English textbooks and seeing the plays in few movies. So why did I pick this book, which is a biography of Shakespeare - simply because of " Bill Bryson "...

I searched for articles on India's performance of Olympics so far and so I typed in Google "India Olympics". I was surprised to the see the first result as the medal count tally (see screen shot below). Checked it in Live Search as well on how smart it was behaving. It too gave similar...

I am very happy when I first heard the news in Radioone while driving to work in the morning now. India's Abhinav Bindra has won a gold in men's 10-metre Air Rifle event in Beijing.This is India's first ever Olympic gold in any individual event and ninth in total. So far the nine gold medals...

The New Imperialists (How Five Restless Kids Grew up to virtually rule your world) by Mark Leibovich is a book I read recently. Though the book that talks about 5 technology leaders and visionaries is little old (it was written in 2001/2002 and a lot happens in technology industry in 5 years) I still...

For nearly two decades now we haven't seen any innovation in design from makers of Wintel PCs or laptops. Over the last few years it has been solely Apple that was coming out with cool designs - whether it was Mac Mini or Macbook Air . So I was happy to see finally a PC manufacturer investing on...

Two weeks back on my way back to Chennai in Mumbai Airport I picked up this book - Cold Steel "Lakshmi Mittal and the Multi-Billion-Dollar Battle for a Global Empire" by Tim Bouquet and Byron Ousey. The book is about the story of the world’s biggest and most hard-fought industry takeover of...

I had written earlier about Microsoft Surface , but today I got a chance to play with it in person for sometime. I am in Redmond, WA this week and was visiting one of the Microsoft offices where they had kept a Surface computer for demo. Surface is one cool technology that you got to use for getting...

Even if you have a hard disk with hundreds of GBs, you will run out of space soon. At that time you want to see what is taking most of the space. Using Windows Explorer and going to each folder is a time consuming job. Several years back I got introduced to a tool called " Tree Size " that...

The other day in a dinner conversation the topic was on how India has a nation has grown in spite of everything - Corruption, Inefficient bureaucracy and all the differences. That's when this book came up " In Spite of the Gods: The Strange Rise of Modern India by Edward Luce ". I bought...