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Kanwal Rekhi
Kanwal always brings clarity to a topic in minutes. There aren’t very many in his...
Benefits of Legal AI Tools
Legal AI Platform Can do what CBI, ED and PMO could not It can end...
Justice Yashwant Varma
Justice Yashwant Varma Who needs justice ? The judge or the parties who got sold...
Indian Diaspora in the US
Indian Diaspora in the US Silent Amid Economic Storm Doesn’t America have freedom of speech...
Mr. Dhruv M Sawhey
The Global warming challengeCop10 air conditioning1 kW solar gives 5 kw airconSeems to defy laws...
One Bank owned this market
USD 100 Billion pa Havala Went on for 75 years One Bank owned this market...
Modi & Trump are both great leaders
Modi & Trump are both great leaders Trump is a businessman. He was born with...
Institutionalisation fails When Boards fail the shareholders
Institutionalisation fails When Boards fail the shareholders But who is ACCOUNTABLE for appointing the BOARD...
Boss who doesn’t exist
Boss who doesn’t exist Yet controls everything Compliance as a tool of subjugation India foolishly...
We accidentally created materials that shouldn’t exist.
AMAT AI Platform Designing novel materials Working backward from the need. The IIT Alumni Council...
Donald Trump vs Narendra Modi
Donald Trump vs Narendra Modi Both great for their own countries Both are exemplary showmen...
Silicon Valley will rule rest of the US
IDonald Trump A brilliant showman Probably the best thing for India. In September 2019, I...
GO Aero
GO Aero India to make French plane engine parts Every Boeing to have an Indian...
Drones are getting larger and autonomous
Drones are getting larger and autonomous Airports don’t have capacity Even the skies won’t have...
LOG9
“Can’t be done” Is not relevant when some does it The curious case of batteries...
Indigenous Micro Turbine Engine
Indigenous Micro turbine engine Heart of GO mobility Duel fuel – green H2 or CNG...
Electric bus mfg startup
Ankit Singhvi Electric bus mfg startup No subsidy, no tender sales, no factory 18 million...
Dr Yashodhara Pawar
Dr Yashodhara Pawar Deeptech for beauty Ai derived novel materials Forty years ago, my IIT...
Electric Aviation
Electric aviation The technology is here The regulation is not India needs ambulances. On the...
Brain drain
Better than Brain in the drain Why Corporate USA wins on meritocracy ? Iconic Japanese,...
Scaling Deeptech
Scaling Deeptech Providing access to Capital Markets Accelerating Research Commercialisation I have made 20+ trips...
Bharat Ratna CNR Rao
Bharat Ratna CNR Rao India’s most eminent living scientist Our best chance for a Nobel...
Log9 & Ionique
Log9 & Ionique India’s technology gems GO Mobility platform for green aviation For the last...
Taxation
TaxationCan make or break a business In 1988, JRD Tata wanted me to help him...
Pankaj Bhargava
Is engineering the only careerThat an engineer should pursueOr do engineers make better MBA. This...
GO Aero – Electric plane airline
GO Aero Electric plane airline Meeting Harsh Vardhan of vayudoot India’s youngest PSU CEO https://lnkd.in/g7eQcRuY...
Limits of AI – Evalueserve founders perspective
Vishwagurus of AIFinding needles in a haystackThe IITians inventing the future As one of many...
Cleaner than hydrogen
Coal 2.0 Cleaner than hydrogen I spent over thirty days at coal mine locations last...
Green Hydrogen
Green Hydrogen But why outsource ? Why not just shut the refinery down? I spent...
Somenath Ghosh
I have known Somenath Ghosh as well as many of his batchmates since the late...
ROGUE AI Simulator
Risk No 1 Cyber insecure AI Recently the IIT Alumni incubator ran a competition on...
Cybersecure Gathering
Cybersecure Gathering The new face of security A young startup from the IIT Alumni incubator...
Digital Rupee Bank
Digital Rupee BankIndia’s chance at Global retail bank leadership Bitcoin is probably the greatest IT...
Upi over IOT – A cybersecurity risk
Upi over IOT A cybersecurity risk It is all very nice to sell convenience as...
A jet engine
A jet engineBy 3D printing Like any other day, I started my day on Sunday...
Nikola Tesla
Imagineers The comparative advantage For a Big4 challenger Imagineers are a fraction of engineers. Such...
Sebi vs RBI
Sebi vs RBI RBIs own Jane Street As the song and dance about Jane Street...
Blue Smart Journey
Electric TaxisDo they have a future A few days ago I had posted about Gensol...
The Family
I see family office after family office chasing venture capital expecting it to be a...
Sebi or Industry failure
Sebi or Industry failureOr policy failure with market failure. The Jane Street casino memory will...
Electric Vehicle and Green Steel
Electric Vehicle and Green Steel Confusing issues Lesson from Gensol On the 24th of June...
Casino Royale 7
Las Vegas Style NSE and BSE House vs the rest Many years ago, I had...
Digital Cash – Chinese vs Indian
Digital Cash Chinese vs Indian China’s Digital Yuan (e-CNY) is the most advanced in terms...
Chandra Enters Cockpit to Steady the Turbulence at AI
Governance 101 Basic common sense A basic perusal of this article clearly put out by...
Sustainability 101
Sustainability 101Extend life of durables It is well known that the best option to minimise...
Batua
Batua The first differentiated NPCI alternate The Batua platform is likely to go live in...
NPCI 1.0 is now history – Batua was built ground up for crypto
NPCI 1.0 is now history Batua was built ground up for crypto In December 2004,...
NPCI’s first real alternate – The Batua Stack
NPCI’s first real alternate The Batua Stack https://lnkd.in/g2HUX5gH NPCIs success has led to it becoming...
Jaguar
For a conglomerate like Tatas, it is very difficult to manage the creative part of...
NPCI .. a monopoly whose half life just got over.
NPCI .. a monopoly whose half life just got over. Today, like most other days,...
Digital public infrastructure is a massive global revenue opportunity for India.
Digital public infrastructure is a massive global revenue opportunity for India. And it should not...
Looking for co-founders
Sometimes the world around us confuses me. I am part of a jury looking at...
Way back in 2010, based on a request from my old professor at IIT
Way back in 2010, based on a request from my old professor at IIT, I...
L&T Safety Innovation School
Stunningly real dead men It is fashionable to have an innovation centre or an innovation...
Perpetual Power Technologies
Perpetual Power Technologies By the time, India’s first domestic venture capital funded domestic company started...
The memorial service of Dr MR Srinivasan
The memorial service of Dr MR Srinivasan yesterday really signalled the end of an era...
Agreements – Oral or Legal ?
An extremely unfortunate event co occurred with the start of the liberalisation program under Dr...
China’s rare earth curbs a ‘wake-up call’ as India builds alternative supply chains: Piyush Goyal
This is not an area for a chartered accountant, however well meaning and whatsoever competent....
Forum IIT Council
Less than one year ago – the idea of an Indian Big4 had been written...
One of the most interesting innovations in building technology comes from the BAPS Akshardham organisation.
One of the most interesting innovations in building technology comes from the BAPS Akshardham organisation....
Why IIT Alumni Council withdraws from developing COVID-19 vaccine
Figuring out what not to do is often more important than doing something. I have...
Investees Profit or Loss Making ?
Should VCs invest in profit making companies or loss making companies. For any seasoned VC...
Brand Manual of 2019
I was pleasantly shocked to find over fifty agencies queuing up for the IIT Alumni...
Brand Voice Creation for personification in assistive AI
The rebranding of the global IIT alumni philanthropic platform – as an ai native in...
What is our Identity ?
Today, I was trying to analyse some of my gravest personal failures. One of the...
I was absolutely impressed by the theatrical play Humare Ram today
I was absolutely impressed by the theatrical play Humare Ram today. It was the 233rd...
The LNM Institute of Information Technology , Jaipur
In general, everyone thinks they know branding and investing. But in reality, branding wisdom is...
Highest Paid CFO
There is a lot of misconception about the wealth of the IIT alumni community. It...
Walk or Talk – What makes sense ?
There is very little that makes sense about the venture capital business these days. India...
Ashish Chauhan’s MegaSphere Interview
Going back to my excel sheet on the 5000 most distinguished IIT alumni. I just...
Jain Samaj and the Maheshwari Samaj in Rajasthan
Today, I am visiting the Jain Samaj and the Maheshwari Samaj in Rajasthan. This completes...
Swami Suryanil
As the initiatives of the IIT Alumni Council take firm shape for population scale impact,...
What should VC term sheets say ?
Being a promoter is really hard. But being a VC is easy. You neither require...
Is the world becoming a smaller place because of a change in priorities and affluence?? Or are digital devices actually postalising distance ?
Is the world becoming a smaller place because of a change in priorities and affluence??...
Should VCs be transparent ?
At VC industry gatherings, I am often asked “what degree of transparency should a VC...
I was sitting in the lounge at Mumbai Airport waiting for an Air India flight
I was sitting in the lounge at Mumbai Airport waiting for an Air India flight...
How to deal with promoters ?
As I get ready to hang up my boots as an investor to embrace the...
Today was the commencement day at IIT Powai
Today was the commencement day at IIT Powai. Alongside IITB was also hosting the final...
Expanding our circle of innovation in India
As we go about expanding our circle of innovation in India – a sustainable partnership...
The Ocean Club
One of the best perks of my job is the opportunity to meet amazing entrepreneurs...
Soil Bio-Technology Plant
Starting over on my 4100 row excel sheet of eminent IIT Alumni Council members, I...
IIT Alumni Council to onboard industry partners for rapid deployment of frontier technologies in key emerging areas like nuclear and digital cash
There is this incorrect narrative going around that India does not have deep tech startups....
IIT Alumni Council seeks technology development proposals to control potentially rogue technologies like cyber-attacks, gene editing and agentic AI
“As self-learning, self-programming machines become more pervasive, the human mind must reset and upgrade—enhancing it’s...
Globally eminent IIT Alumni
Today I had the honour of adding the 4000th row to my spreadsheet of Globally...
We’re ordinary people, says family of prof with `1,000-crore shares
I walked up to Shivanand Mankekar and sought his permission to attend his classes –...
Today was the 60th anniversary of my alma mater JBIMS
Today was the 60th anniversary of my alma mater JBIMS. It was a day to...
Convenor of the MegaFund
Today was my 500th factory visit in 2000 days as Convenor of the MegaFund. The...
Crypto is a foundational technology like artificial intelligence.
Crypto is a foundational technology like artificial intelligence. India is one of the first countries...
IIT Alumni Council to onboard industry partners for rapid deployment of frontier technologies in key emerging areas like nuclear and digital cash
“Artificial Intelligence and computervision is a foundational science. Self-learning and self-programming machines already exist. Platforms...
Madhya Pradesh is Emerging
Madhya Pradesh is emerging as by far the most progressive state in the country under...
Swami Vivekananda’s Teachings
One of the most interesting people at the Tie Global Summit in Bangalore among the...
IIT Alumni Council
*A Promising Start to 2025:* IIT Alumni Council launches Gen-AI Platform to chronicle transformative stories...
Dr Manmohan Singh
The death of Dr Manmohan Singh really marks the end of an era for India....
India’s Startups In 2024: The Good, The Bad, The Optimistic
We are witnessing a generation change in the startup economy with PowerPoint companies raising massive...
Forum – IIT Alumni Council
Forum – India’s first Big4 challenger to commence operations on 1.4.2024. Memberships to open tommorow...
The We-Connect app lets couples control the product even after
The Official Store Of Delight Passion And Romance! Dubbed “the authentic couple’s vibrator worlds biggest...
IIT Alumni Council
It is indeed remarkable to see the pace at which carefully guarded defence technologies are...
Gandhinagar Capital Railway station
Gandhinagar Capital Railway station: ‘The epitome of passenger’s comfort’ – Check out stunning pics https://lnkd.in/dhBD9mYSource:...