March 2025

It’s raining hacks all over and has been so for quite some time, the nature of the enterprises and the sectors notwithstanding. Given the precarious situation we are in, the logical step would have been to bring all the stakeholders together, putting their hearts and mind, and finding a solution. A bare minimum starts with […]

The story of the modern world will be written on the touchstone of how the cyber threats were handled and resolved by our technologists, technocrats, and the political leaders. We can reach even the threshold level of battling it out, only when we are able to appreciate where we are positioned and the strategy we

The season of the digital scams doesn’t seem to end, more so with the digital age of apps and social media, ruling everyone’s mind. Outright foolish as it may sound, people remain gullible to well established systems of fraud, in the digital world. Today only we have a news of a elderly couple committing suicide

Artificial Intelligence, AI, as it is popularly known, is making a transformative change in literally everything and is providing us a peep into the future. There are lots of discussions on the fate of coders in the new AI landscape, how much AI will intrude into their existence. Will it wipe it off completely in

Do states gain maturity in their nature of governance? What if the nature of governance had been faulty and it matured in the same mould. This may sound weird but this is the abyss large numbers of South Asian states have created for themselves. Down the memory lane, Gunnar Myrdal, Swedish economist and sociologist used

First information report (FIR) as it is popularly known, is the act of registration of a criminal case, as soon as the information of the offence is received by the police station. It sets the criminal law in motion and it is a legal safeguard for the individual. The offence becomes an offence against the

If the government tech could have been as slick as its advertisements India would have been a different place to live. Ease of life and ease of business are great catchphrases, but if you struggle through the rigmarole of government tech enabled services, which you possibly cannot avoid, you are in for a nightmare. The

What is the main task of an IT product company, besides the given; developing pathbreaking products and making a market for it, which did not exist. Maximizing profit would be the next priority as their history shows that there are no limits to their profit and every company wants to join that league. Above and

Do you have faith in the systems you run? The faith is twofold; one is the capability to run it efficiently and second is, if you land on the wrong side of it, will it give you a fair deal? I think it is an abysmal failure on both counts. While most of our systems

We have grown up with Moore’s law so to say, as we have seen and experienced the digital world grow by leaps and bounds for over 50 years now. It was in 1965 that Moore’s law was introduced by Gordon Moore, the co-founder of Intel. He predicted that the number of transistors on a microchip

A fire at the official residence of a High Court judge, has put the whole of the Indian judicial administration under fire. The dispensers of justices, the ones who are supposed to be the modern day avatars of the practice “Caesar’s wife must be above suspicion,” are now forced to handle one of their ilk.