December-2003 issue
On The Cover
Author: Karthik Sundaram
THE QUIET SMILE BELIES THE IRON WITHIN. When Ashoke Dutt selected Chennai in 1989 to set up a call center, processing “factory” and headquarters for Citibank’s ambitious consumer lending and credit card plans in India,...
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Cover Feature
si Team
Don’t pop the cork yet. But yes, the buzz is definitely around. The next big thing isn’t around the corner, and the...
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Ravi Mhatre
SINCE THE BUBBLE BURST IN 2000, A FIGHT FOR survival has emerged in the enterprise software industry. Corporate IT budgets are...
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Venu Shamapant & Krishna Srinivasan
OVER THE LAST FOUR YEARS THERE HAVE BEEN some significant changes in the semiconductor ecosystem that will have a major impact...
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Naval Ravikant
NEW MEDIA OFTEN IMITATES OLD MEDIA before it finds its true footing. The early days of television recast radio programming,...
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David Rice
IN OUR GRAND, FEBRILE ATTEMPT TO DIGITIZE everything and connect everything to everything else via wireless, copper, infrared...
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Technology
Ajmal Noorani
WE ARE A SOCIETY INTENT ON GETTING more for less—two dinners for the price of one! Small children ride free! An extra...
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Ramachandran Iyer
AS THE TELECOM INDUSTRY STRUGGLES TO keep afloat in rough seas, there is a growing consensus about the proper course for the...
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Entrepreneurship
Rahul Chandran
“YOU CAN’T GET AWAY WITH ADDING WATER TO homogenized milk and then selling the resulting 1% milk product cheaper to...
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Letters
si Readers
Gitesh Ramamurthy: Leader
In spite of a stinging loss, unfocused expansions and market-driven downsizing, Mr. Ramamurthy has...
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Leadership
Rahul Chandran
Sunil Kumar claims he is not ‘naturally bright’. But that has not deterred this IIT Chennai Mechanical Engineering...
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Business
Stephen Mathias
AS THE OUTSOURCING MOVEMENT TO India gains momentum, we can see a situation where hundreds of thousands of Indians will be...
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Max Michaels
AS THE PACE OF JOB LOSSES ACCELERATES TO 1.2 million per year, global outsourcing has become the central issue in American...
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Rahul Chandran
TIME WAS WHEN HAWALA (HINDI FOR IN trust) route was most frequently opted way to send money home from abroad. The remitter...
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Datta Nadkarni
LEVI’S STARTED OFF MAKING JEANS FOR the gold prospectors during the Gold Rush back in 1853. Today it’s a global...
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Career
Hersh Shah
THE LATEST BUZZ IN IT CIRCLES IN THE VALLEY AND around the U.S. is relocating back to India. With more and more IT companies...
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Editor's Desk
Harvi Sachar
As we go to print, a despot has been captured. Just a fortnight ago, the commander-in-chief of the world’s most powerful...
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Last Word
Romi Mahajan
GO BACK 19 YEARS.
The night of Dec 2-3, 1984, cannot and should not be forgotten. That night, 40 tons of the deadly gas...
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