February-2002 issue
Cover Story
Dhirubhai Ambani made his mark as the pioneering architect of India’s famous industrial powerhouse, the Reliance Group. Like many highly successful businesspeople, Ambani has turned some of his attention to social pursuits. His Ambani...
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Cover
What’s a company to do when it runs out of funding in these tumultuous times? Unfortunately for everyone associated with...
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It is important to consider a job interview as a holistic process, rather than just a point occurrence. Each step in the...
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At noon on Oct. 25, when Kundapur Vaman Kamath got the reverse merger of ICICI with ICICI Bank approved by his Board of...
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From a technology IPO standpoint, 2001 almost didn’t happen. Only 11 information technology companies went public in...
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A company building a complex technology product these days might well outsource software development to India, leave the key...
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One thing is common to all of us: We are time stressed and jaded. There are not enough hours in the day to do all we want to....
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Now that the “Dot Com” edition of Parker Brothers’ Monopoly is being discontinued, it’s probably too...
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Storage product vendor qLogic grew its cash by about $40 million last quarter. Forget debates about what technology will...
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Career Advice
SECOND MBA
I am 24 and currently enrolled in an MBA program at the University of Pittsburgh. I came to the U.S. two years ago...
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Cover Feature
Su“I am a New Yorker,” says Surinder Singh Walia emphatically. The rotund 43-year-old Sikh, who proudly displays...
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At five a.m. on September 29, Vasona County Park in Los Gatos, California is a curious sight. Halogen lights fuelled by...
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In the late 1970s, Nishith Desai was a young lawyer practicing in Mumbai. Desai realized that the bureaucratic nature of the...
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Like all immigrants, Indians in America have first and foremost had to define and establish themselves by their work — as...
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“It’s kind of like war — it’s kind of like getting up and putting on your armor and going to war...
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It happened quietly, a few months ago in a corner of the technology industry: Software company Selectica removed the word...
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You can catch Vikram Chatwal in the recent Ben Stiller film “Zoolander,” where he plays a bit role as an absurdly...
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Thomas Kailath witnessed much of the birth of Silicon Valley. His early experience with mathematics came at a Jesuit school...
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Narpat Bhandari is known in Silicon Valley circles as the man who single-handedly took on T.J. Rogers, famed CEO of Cypress...
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Thirty-one-year-old retired army captain Harpreet Chadha, an insurance agent with New York Life, is difficult to pin down. He...
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“What’s the deal with these shows ER and Chicago Hope? Is there anyone in this room who believes that there’s...
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Successful Indian immigrants in America talk about giving back to the country of their birth. But few go back and fully engage...
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Dr. Ranjana Sharma glances fondly around the same Fremont California office in which she examined her first private patient in...
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Apple’s new iPod digital music player could be perceived as an oddly timed consumer product, when hip, consumer-oriented...
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For much of his career, Ajit Gill chose to follow the classic path of the successful Indian immigrant engineer. He served as...
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Oddly-named Maverick Tube Corporation is deeply rooted in the heart of the industrial world: the oil business. High-tech lovers...
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Dear Dipak,
Prof. Prakash Sethi forwarded your letter to me. I wonder if you would be interested in doing a Ph.D. at...
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Meyya Meyyappan remembers that as a very young boy in India, he was conflicted when he heard about Apollo 11 and Neil Armstrong...
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“Run in Minnesota. Not in California or New York where there are more Indians, but in a place where you have strong...
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Steve Sanghi was 31 years old when he became general manager of Intel’s EPROM business in 1987. He was interviewed...
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During the most irrational period of hype in the technology industry, if you weren’t part of a startup you were not...
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His unusual title at Sun Microsystems — “extreme sales” — usually precedes him, but K....
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“I lead two lives,” says Rajiv Chaudhri, president of Digital Century Capital, a technology-focused hedge fund that...
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Openfile
By now siliconindia has touched over a million people, with hundreds of thousands of concepts, ideas, tips, advice, analysis...
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Sam Pitroda Column
We all recognize and appreciate the contributions of voluntary organizations. In democratic countries like India and the United...
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Wall Street View
Wall Street loves consistency and certainty about the future prospects of any business, and will usually over-reward for...
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