Chetan Bhagat is one of our hottest young writers. IIT trained, he gave up a successful career to pursue his love for writing.  Chetan’s book ‘One Night at the Call Center’ is a huge hit in our IT-ITES sectors.  His recent book ‘2 States’ has also been well received. Chetan has now banned popular young cartoonist Saad Akhtar from following him on Twitter. More...

The US had set up the H-1B visa program to hire on a short term basis highly skilled workers not available in America.  While many Indian tech firms follow the rules, the ground reality is that some  have used every loophole in the H-1B system to bring in low cost workers.  The ongoing misuse of the visas by a handful of Indian companies is an open secret. More...

Another IITian turned writer, he has traveled all the way from Bihar to Darjeeling to Delhi to NASA to Palo Alto. But his heart and soul have remained Indian, so Indian that he writes commentaries of even politics in India. Meet Sujit Saraf, author of ‘The Peacock Throne’ and ‘The Confession of Sultana Daku.’ More...

The US had set up the H-1B visa program to hire on a short term basis highly skilled workers not available in America.  While many Indian tech firms follow the rules, the ground reality is that some tech firms have used every loophole in the H-1B system to bring in low cost workers.  The ongoing misuse of the visas by a handful of Indian companies is an open secret. More...

Tech giant Google is the leading search engine in the world and it has about 80 % of the market share in India. Other Google applications like Email, Maps, Orkut etc are equally popular in the sub-continent.  Google has the same market share in Pakistan. So, why has the recent Google survey not released results for Pakistan? More...

I am a great believer in Citizens Journalism as practiced by IBN.  News site mynews also does a great job. Mynews.in describes itself as “a website of the people, by the people and for the people. Every citizen is a reporter/broadcaster for us and can contribute news. You can also participate in debates, forums and polls.” More...

Highly regarded technology giant Infosys was started in 1981 by 7 people with a $250 investment.  Today, this Indian behemoth has revenues of US $4 billion and is the darling of the stock market.  Infosys has 105 thousand employees and 50 offices world wide. Infosys insiders tell Techgoss about a bitter on going turf war. More...

Google has done much to democratize our world and improve our quality of life.  It has even donated tens of millions of dollars to charitable causes.  Google pays and treats its employees well.  That is why it is difficult to understand why the same Google contest offers winners in the west substantially more than kids in India. More...

Desi Sci-Fi and intensive workshops for Indian writers, how does that sound together? Meet Anil Menon, a techie who is giving his whole heart to the Desi-SF project which hopes to inspire more Indian writers into reading Desi-Science Fiction and writing it as well. Here is the chat Techgoss had with him. More...

Google has done much to democratize our world and improve our quality of life.  It has even donated tens of millions of dollars to charitable causes.  Google pays and treats its employees well.  That is why it is difficult to understand why the same Google contest offers winners in USA and UK substantially more than kids in India. More...