The booming IT Sector in India has enabled many Techies to give form to their creative and artistic talents.  Meet Techie Rohit Kalia, who modeled as an Engineering student; and after joining one of India’s most respected giants Infosys,  has landed a plum role in the a movie ‘NRI’ . And as happens in Bollywood movies,  this young man from Punjab was offered the role in Sydney. More...

Dhruv Gupta studied Computer Engineering in US and consulted for a number of Fortune 500 Companies before returning to India to become one of the big success stories in the Indian startup ecosystem.  Dhruv is also an accomplished fitness & health expert and has written on this topic for national & international media. He has co-authored ‘Losing It.! Making Weight Loss Simple ’ More...

In Dec, 2012, Bangalore hosted the prestigious Annual Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing India conference.  One of the highlights of this conference was the Women Entrepreneur Quest (WEQ), designed to promote early stage women driven Startups, where the winner was awarded Rs. 5 Lakh. Ms. Shalini Pillai Banerjee emerged as the winner of the Women Entrepreneur Quest More...

Start-Up Chile is a program created by the Chilean Govt in 2010 to attract early stage entrepreneurs from around the world to bootstrap their startups in Chile. The program aims to make Chile the innovation hub of Latin America. This time 105 startups (of the 1400 who applied) made the cut for Start-Up Chile's sixth round of funding of which 7 percent companies are from India. More...

The booming IT Sector in India has enabled many Techies and Engineers to give form to ideas that help everyone.  Meet Vedulla Kumar, who is heading a group of software professionals, to create a clever Android App that helps people in the tech hub of Hyderabad, India to buy good quality water at the best price. It is an intelligent App and caters to users specific preferences. More...

You have got a bow and 25 arrows, shoot as many balloons as you can … this is what a Nashik boy Manas Gajare thought of playing on his mobile while waiting for a bus at a Bus Stop. Gajare is an Apps Developer who completed his B.E. from the Sardar Patel Institute of Technology, Mumbai, and then moved back to the emerging tech hub of Nashik, Maharashtra to launch his startup. More...

Rohit Sharma is a man of many talents and helps dispel the stereotype of successful geeks who only stick to the cold logic of bits & bytes.  Rohit has worked for Infosys and currently is a Senior Software Engineer at an American tech major, but at one point in time this dance enthusiast wanted to be a Choreographer.  Recently, he has written a love story ‘Te Amo...I Love You’ More...

TGC Prasad is the author of 2 bestsellers ‘Unusual People Do Things Differently’ (Penguin, Portfolio) and ‘Along the Way’ (Rupa Publishers). He is on the advisory boards of several companies, and works as managing partner of TGC Consulting, a consulting firm, specializing in human capital management. TGC Prasad is a national executive council member of Systems Society of India. More...

The booming IT Sector in India has enabled many bright young Techies to pursue their interests and passions.  Meet Anand Kanagaraj, who even while completing his Bachelors in Information Technology, is already running a software company.  And Anand has the distinction of winning a number of tech contests including  the high profile Android Contest sponsored by Dimension Co. More...

While IIT trained Chetan Bhagat is a household name, other IIT graduates have also won critical acclaim for the magic of their words. IIT alumnus Parul A Mittal has joined the ranks of successful techies who have written popular books. Parul (Agarwal) Mittal did her BTech. in Electrical Engineering from IIT Delhi, followed by Masters in Computer Science from UMich, Ann Arbor. More...