Ajit Balakrishnan
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Ajit Balakrishnan
Ajit Balakrishnan is an alumnus of IIM Calcutta. He is a successful entrepreneur, business executive, and administrator. He had started his entrepreneurial venture with Rediffusion, an advertising firm now known as Rediffusion DY&R which he co-founded with Arun Nanda and Mohammed Khan, when he was 22. He later co-founded PSI Data Systems in mid 80's with two other partners hailing from Stanford. He led Rediff.com India Limited (Nasdaq: REDF) which won the CIO Choice Award for the best Enterprise Email Solution for three consecutive years. He has served as the Chairman of the Ministry of Information Technology, Government of India.
Ajit Balakrishnan is an alumnus of IIM Calcutta. He is a successful entrepreneur, business executive, and administrator. He had started his entrepreneurial venture with Rediffusion, an advertising firm now known as Rediffusion DY&R which he co-founded with Arun Nanda and Mohammed Khan, when he was 22. He later co-founded PSI Data Systems in mid 80's with two other partners hailing from Stanford. He led Rediff.com India Limited (Nasdaq: REDF) which won the CIO Choice Award for the best Enterprise Email Solution for three consecutive years. He has served as the Chairman of the Ministry of Information Technology, Government of India.
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Ajit Balakrishnan: End of the spectrum zamindari
Some licence-holders use the spectrum allotted to them well and others let it go unused or poorly used
Ajit Balakrishnan: 'Core competence' and other tales
It is not certain whether management theories have a role in modern society. In fact, some of them need to be reconstructed
Ajit Balakrishnan: Chasing real estate's shadows
Those of us who were lucky or wise enough to buy or inherit an apartment before this astonishing rise in prices started are smiling
Ajit Balakrishnan: Good things from bad motives?
Today we use statistical methods for purposes as computing GDP & planning healthcare & education, but statistical methods originated with much darker motives
Ajit Balakrishnan: If you're so smart, why aren't you rich?
The ideas on which the super-big business fortunes are based need not be, and often are not, the result of truly original insights or knowledge
Ajit Balakrishnan: Under-appreciated and lied to
You work hard and take on more than your share of work, yet your boss favours those who flatter him. You feel frustrated. Why doesn't boss see my true worth?
Ajit Balakrishnan: Reinventing journalism?
Are the rise of internet & threat to newspapers merely a shift to even more of this kind of 'extensive reading', & not a threat to journalism itself?
Ajit Balakrishnan: Nation-states vs the Web - Part 2
Suddenly, it looks as if governments worldwide are struggling to deal with content on the Web. What is going on?
Ajit Balakrishnan: Defending the Internet, loudly
Various Internet-related businesses protested, say they lack expertise to take the call that Section 79 of Information Technology Act requires
Ajit Balakrishnan: Spotting future stock-market darlings
Casual observers may conclude that the mantra today is all about being in tech-related industries
Ajit Balakrishnan: Why politicians love low-skilled jobs
Presidential candidate Obama is huddled with his key economic advisers, the best brains that economics fraternity in US can muster, plotting strategy
Ajit Balakrishnan: 'Reforms' for whom?
Two ways to advertise your modernity in India today: first is to carry an iPad, second is to declare that you are firmly on the side of 'reforms'
Ajit Balakrishnan: Utterly butterly Indian ads
Ad Katha, the recently published book, is not just a trip through the golden age of Indian advertising, but also an enquiry into how many of the cultural symbols that we now see as "Indian" came about
Ajit Balakrishnan: The nation-state tests its limits
Concept of a nation-state is so entrenched in our beliefs that it's easy to believe that every person should have a nation as obviously as he must have a gender
Ajit Balakrishnan: A new school bell rings in India
SC's upholding of the RTE Act could merely be the start of a battle, judging by the passionate voices being raised for and against it
Ajit Balakrishnan: How I learnt what education is
How a teacher from a remote government school uses an innovative method to teach her students
Ajit Balakrishnan: The battle over Big Data
Policy makers must balance competing interests between citizens privacy, business' needs & state's security
