Ravi Visvesvaraya Sharada Prasad is a computer scientist and author. He writes on technology and historical events in post-independent India. He is Associate Editor at gfiles.
2 Articles0 CommentsOver the last decade, on every death anniversary of former Deputy Prime Minister and Home Minister Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel, who passed away on...
ByRavi Visvesvaraya Sharada PrasadDecember 29, 2025If you receive regular water supply in your urban home, you have to thank Dr Pasala Dayaratnam. The massive elevated concrete water reservoirs...
ByRavi Visvesvaraya Sharada PrasadNovember 28, 2025The nation gratefully remembers Tirunellai Narayana Iyer Seshan, who passed away in Chennai on 10 November 2019, as the man who cleaned up...
ByRavi Visvesvaraya Sharada PrasadOctober 10, 2025For India, with its diversity of conditions and multiple layers of development, the validity of this approach is clear: AI can be a...
ByRavi Visvesvaraya Sharada PrasadOctober 3, 2025Narendra Modi declared that he hopes for a strong opposition, which would strengthen democracy. So did Jawaharlal Nehru. Speaking at the ancestral village...
ByRavi Visvesvaraya Sharada PrasadOctober 2, 2025Organisations, especially the Indian military and government, must begin preparation now rather than wait until urgency forces action. It is a matter of...
ByRavi Visvesvaraya Sharada PrasadSeptember 18, 2025Rolls Royce has progressed from selling aircraft engines to providing airlines with engine-hours, charging them for flight hours rather than selling them the...
ByRavi Visvesvaraya Sharada PrasadSeptember 17, 2025Very early on the morning of 15 August 1975, as he was getting ready for the Independence Day celebrations at Red Fort, my...
ByRavi Visvesvaraya Sharada PrasadAugust 22, 2025