The booming IT-BPO Sector has given many men and women the opportunity, finances and inspiration to give form to their great ideas.  Meet Minnat Lalpuria, Founder & Managing Director of 7Vachan Services who started her career with tech giant TCS, and then moved to the digital marketing world.  After an MBA from the prestigious ISB, she launched her wedding consultancy services. More...

C. Kartheeban, a CSR consultant based in Chennai, India  always wanted to contribute for the betterment of needy people and society. After completing his BE, Kartheeban worked as a Java programmer for 1.5 years with one of the most respected blue chip IT giants. Looking at his passion to help others, the same IT Major offered him a full time role in the company’s CSR division. More...

Dipen Ambalia is an Electrical Engineer by training and was a Techie by profession who has worked in every phase of the software development cycle for some of the most successful global tech majors. After his first book ‘LOSER: The Life of a Software Engineer’, which was a satire on the IT world, Dipen stepped out of the binary work world of bits and bytes, to write full time. More...

The IT - BPO Sector has some men and women who have a number of skills and talents.  But few Techies are as multi talented as Vijaynarain Rangarajan who worked with Cognizant for about 4 years even as he made it to the Top 5 of the Airtel Super Singer contest and was doing backup vocals for musical genius A.R. Rahman.  Currently, he is studying Management at the prestigious ISB. More...

The booming IT - BPO Sector has given many men and women the opportunity, finances and inspiration to give form to their great ideas.  Meet Pramida, who works for a blue chip networking giant, and her husband Nitin Raghunath, who has produced a film ‘Mere Haule Dost’.  Nitin quit his job at a Mobile App company for the film, and Pramida took a break from work to support Nitin. More...

Vineeta Singh was born in Gujarat, grew up in Delhi, went on to IIT Madras to do Electrical Engineering, and wrapped up at the prestigious IIM-A. What follows should have been a fat salary at a blue chip MNC. But alongside marathons and badminton matches, she chose entrepreneurship in Mumbai. Vellvette, the company she runs, is a beauty subscription service. TG finds out more. More...

On March 20, Nasscom announced the ‘10,000 Startups’ Program. The initiative targets to nurture 10,000 startups in India over the next 10 years. The Nasscom launch event also witnessed a chat with Eric Schmidt, Executive Chairman of Google. The chat covered memorable stories and learnings from Eric. Among others, Tanuj Choudhry’s questions were selected to be answered by Eric. More...

There’s nothing wrong in dreaming big and with support from family, then life can be full of fun. Mumbai based Kiran Bhivgade seems to follow this simple funda to lead her life. An engineering graduate, Kiran is riding high on her entrepreneurial success ‘Crispy Games’. Mobile gaming company Crispy Games is currently part of the prestigious accelerator programme Startup Chile. More...

Psssst! It’s not now a secret, but best-selling author techie, Ravinder Singh, of ‘I Too Had A Love Story’ and ‘Can Love Happen Twice’ fame, has left his Microsoft job as of February 2013. Ravinder spoke to TG but would only say that he would be starting a new venture that is a sort of publishing house meant for debut novelists. But what IS a secret is the name of the venture. More...

What do a give a Techie who has everything?  A Merc? Software Engineer Tinu Cherian, based in India’s Silicon Valley Bangalore, is good looking, successful and social media savvy.  Tinu is also one of the most respected men in the Indian Wikipedia Community because of his work at the popular site. He is also a former Board Member (Executive Committee) at Wikmedia India Chapter More...