But who is responsible, teachers or students or college?

I am not bragging but i am not happy with our education system. I was out on a recruitment drive 2 weeks back in a so called tier 1 engineering college in Bangalore, India. I expected these final year computer science students to answer these below mentioned questions on web technology but unfortunately most of …

2014 passed, 2015 welcome!!

Happy New Year to everyone to start with. Year 2014 been amazing in following ways : 1. Joined The New Stack, working on building community & writing occasionally. 2. Sister got married to one of the smartest kid I have met so far in 20+ odd years of my life. 3. Moved to Bangalore after …

Contributing to Open Source

Searching “contributing to open source” throws  About 30,100,000 results (0.56 seconds)  Now the real question is being an Open Source evangelist, what/how should one proceed when talking about same? I am still from Old school & believe contribution to Open Source comes from inside hence: 1. Telling someone to use Open Source because its virus free …

Why startups abort?

Product market fit:  Let’s say you have built an e-commerce product targeting the local market but it has limited internet penetration &  online banking close to 0%. What happens to your product? It becomes restricted and misfit in the market you are targeting. Uber changed its payment policy in India because less than 10% of …

Ibn battuta: The less known, greatest traveler world has ever known.

I am fascinated by achievement of  Ibn Battuta, his travel achievement of 7400+ miles.  Being a muslim, he traveled most part of the world where Islam was practiced. I am not sure if this was the reason for him not getting credit he deserved by the western historians. This post is not enough about his …

Disruption in print/TV industry, who will survive?

  Few days back I got mail from a colleague of  NewsX. He was one of the best journalist & prime anchor for the the news channel that time. After having conversation over Skype he told me a lot of things have changed, people are moving to online space. A lot of new online mediums …

Things or two I learnt following James Altucher.

  A lot people like Peter Theil is not a big fan of Twitter, everyone has an opinion or belief and we should respect it. About me, I have always been a connector & Twitter is one of the best things happened to me. A few months back a tweet from @jaltucher  landed in my timeline, it …