March 2025

How a product will perform no one knows, is what any OEM will tell you. There are many slips between the cup and lip, when it comes to commercial success of any product. This might still remain the case even if the product is for free and might be world class. Who would accept a […]

For the layman and the uninitiated, AI is the box of wisdom and knowledge, which provides all that you require, with no effort or complexity at the back end, delivering the highest level of precision, which is ready to use. Can AI ever reach the seamless knowledge nirvana in everything the world has to offer,

Post the invention of the internet, for sure the unleashing of the ChatGPT to the world, has been the most momentous moment. While the world got hooked to the conversational GPT, the technical, compute and business model of OpenAI and other more established behemoths was widely accepted as the only model of AI development. The

Ramping up human and technical resources is an ongoing exercise in our battle against cyber crimes. Recently, Karnataka appointed 16 cyber technicians, the details of the capabilities are not known in the public domain. Will they be able to match the harsh ground level requirements being dictated by the international cyber criminals? Or will we

If a half baked document produced by consultants, with the help of flowery decorative AI governance texts available in public domain and might be with some help of the known LLMs, can create an effective oversight mechanism for AI in this country, then we are fooling ourselves. Some efforts would have gone in by some

In the cyber insecure world in which we live, getting hacked is the new normal. The question is not if, it is when? The fixed numbers of modus operandi which the police used to boast upon to prove their competence, is thrown to the winds in the age of cyber crimes. Unfortunately, nearly every crime

Have elections in India become an endless pandemic working on the ever sustaining robust platform of democracy and governance; infectious and negative. It creates a negative, detrimental and ever losing battle for the victim or the infected, in this case the electors, the citizens and the hapless masses in this country. When the election pandemic

In today’s fast moving world of cyber insecurity you would barely find people who are completely unaware of cyber crimes. Phishing as a mode of executing cyber crime has been accepted as the most generic and has continued to remain successful for a long period of time. There are different versions which have now come

Criminal case investigation and trial works as per strictly laid out law, procedure and evaluation of evidence. It means that each stakeholder of the criminal justice system works in an objective, independent, empirical manner with the highest level of competence and expertise towards the final delivery of justice and achieve it. Anybody outside this system

In the unanimous judgement of the Supreme Court in the Puttaswamy case in 2017, right to privacy was declared a fundamental right. Going through the meandering preparation, creation of bill, joint parliamentary committee scrutiny etc the legal statute came into being in 2023 titled the Digital Personal Data Protection Act 2023. The agony has still

Having found its first IT service and financial roots in the Y2K gold rush, even with the passage of a quarter of a century, we remain fixated on the IT services model. It would be rather accurate to say that the Y2K crisis played a significant role in the growth of the Indian IT industry.