Ajit Balakrishnan, founder and CEO, Rediff.com, is the author of The Wave Rider, A Chronicle of the Information Age. You can e-mail the author at ajitb@rediffmail.com
Across the world, middle class families are dealing with the consequences of competition to get into high-quality institutions.
Ajit Balakrishnan recalls some lessons from the last time people talked of 'convergence' -- the mid-1990s.
As the new ecommerce paradigm works its way through multiple sectors of the economy it is likely to encounter legal challenges, says Ajit Balakrishnan.
Silicon Valley is at the heart of the transformation of the global economy -- which has both winners and losers, writes Ajit Balakrishnan.
A new book may help companies in getting corporate social responsibility right, notes Ajit Balakrishnan.
Students' flagging interest in the written word is because of a generational digital divide, says Ajit Balakrishnan.
How did Greece, the country of Archimedes and Socrates and Plato and Pythagoras, come to such dire straits, asks Ajit Balakrishnan.
Retirement blues can sometimes result in actions that are dysfunctional, notes Ajit Balakrishnan.
We are all 'Chasing the Monsoon', notes Ajit Balakishnan.
The American university, once the envy of the world, is in crisis, notes Ajit Balakrishnan in his latest column.
Ajit Balakrishnan rewinds to a decade when mobile phones were unheard of and when an IIM degree had a different purpose and value.
Successful parents are increasingly faced with continuing to support children in their 20s or 30s.
'Make in India' could suffer the same fate as did privatisation and the command economy, says Ajit Balakrishnan.
India will have to deal with the question of whether broadband service providers are 'common carriers', like highways.
Regulating the internet only as a medium is somewhat similar to regulating electricity only as a driver of the TV industry
In leading companies in Information Age industries, the word "manager" is taking on a pejorative meaning -- something like "zamindar" -- a man who lived off other people's work and did no work himself, says Ajit Balakrishnan.
Neither pharma nor IT would have become the stars of the economy without the active but largely invisible hand of the Indian State, says Ajit Balakrishnan.
Facebook owns WhatsApp and Microsoft owns Skype, the two services that are at the centre of the current "net neutrality battle".
The Information Technology Act needs another tweak to allow a different kind of information intermediary to flourish, says Ajit Balakrishnan.
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