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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.

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Patel
Perspective

The Falsehoods Of A Funeral

Over the last decade, on every death anniversary of former Deputy Prime Minister and Home Minister Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel, who passed away on...

Dayaratnam
ObituaryPersonality

A Towering Pillar of Concrete Achievements 

If you receive regular water supply in your urban home, you have to thank Dr Pasala Dayaratnam. The massive elevated concrete water reservoirs...

Personality

TN Seshan: Man of Extremes

The nation gratefully remembers Tirunellai Narayana Iyer Seshan, who passed away in Chennai on 10 November 2019, as the man who cleaned up...

GovernanceTalk Time

Digital evolution must remain human-centric: Antonio Grasso

For India, with its diversity of conditions and multiple layers of development, the validity of this approach is clear: AI can be a...

MastermindPerspectivePolitics

Nehru-also-wanted-strong-opposition-but-there-was-none

Narendra Modi declared that he hopes for a strong opposition, which would strengthen democracy. So did Jawaharlal Nehru. Speaking at the ancestral village...

GovernanceTalk Time

Treat cybersecurity as a business and cultural matter, not just a technical one: Jean-Christophe Gaillard

Organisations, especially the Indian military and government, must begin preparation now rather than wait until urgency forces action. It is a matter of...

GovernanceTalk Time

Email, WhatsApp, Slack, Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn will become obsolete: Dr Don Perugini, an expert on AI

Rolls Royce has progressed from selling aircraft engines to providing airlines with engine-hours, charging them for flight hours rather than selling them the...

NewsPolitics

15 August 1975 : “We do not belong to this or that bloc. Nor do we belong to any third bloc. We go ahead keeping only the interests of India” Indira Gandhi

Very early on the morning of 15 August 1975, as he was getting ready for the Independence Day celebrations at Red Fort, my...