The booming IT industry has enabled many Techies to pursue their talents and passions. Techie Pamela Sinha Mathur started her IT career with the highly regarded technology giant Infosys and is currently with another equally successful Indian tech giant.  Pamela, who started writing poems in her childhood, has penned ‘Of Love & Lovers’ which she describes as a story about Love. More...

This gentleman has a cluster of enviable degrees under his belt and that’s in both technology and management. He has also written scripts for animation films, like Chhota Bheem and Kumbh Karan. What brings him to limelight now is his book ‘Raja and the Giant Donut’ which is in the short-list of The Economist Crossword Book Award 2012 for Children’s Writing. Meet Prashant Pinge. More...

One of the most successful tech companies in India, Innoz, teamed up with Startup Village in Kerala to hold one of the largest Hackathons seen in the region.  More than 65 students participated and coded continuously for 30 hours.  There was even a DJ party to pep up the enthusiastic programmers.  Techgoss spoke to  RohilDev whose App Searchapp was one of the winners at 55444. More...

Young techie Sudeep Nagarkar is on top of the world. He penned not one but two best sellers in quick succession and had them published with a company of repute. Definitely a matter for kudos. Nagarkar’s debut, ‘Few things left unsaid’ sold above 2 lakh copies and his ‘That’s the way we met’ has been on best seller charts within a month of its July release. Meet Sudeep Nagarkar. More...

Pradeep Soman works as a Senior Web Designer at a highly regarded Software Solutions company at Technopark, Trivandrum which is one of the key technology hubs of India.  Pradeep has more than 13 years of experience in the Graphic designing field and his eye for creativity and beauty have won him yet another laurel - the State Photography Award 2012.  TG caught up with Pradeep. More...

Amandeep Sandhu has worked as a Technical Writer at blue chip Technology giants like Novell and Oracle.  But his early life story is also filled with many challenges and successes - sleeping on an empty stomach at tech hub Bangalore and then getting a job at the prestigious national newspaper The Economic Times.  All of which helped him write his latest book 'Roll of Honour’ More...

Ravinder Singh, ex Infosys techie turned author had blown the roof off with a simple love story quoted from his life, ‘I Too Had a Love Story’ in 2008 and topped charts with sales nearing 3 lakh copies. His second book, ‘Can Love Happen Twice’, out in Dec 2011, is doing even better and is now in the short-list of the Economist Crossword Book Award 2012 in the Popular category. More...

Murugesan Venkatapathi was born in Coimbatore, India.  After studying engineering at Bharathiar University, he pursued higher education at the University of North Carolina and later at Purdue University.  After being a Research Associate at Purdue for a few years, he joined the prestigious Indian Institute of Science at Bangalore, India as an Assistant Professor in early 2009. More...

Hundreds of early Indian employees of blue chip giants like Infy are multi millionaires today, and thousands of others (some at Startups) are also well off - all thanks to their Stock Options given to them when they joined.  Sadly these 4 employees of a startup were not so lucky. They slogged for 14 hours a day hoping for financial security, but it turned out to be a pipe dream More...

Ranjith Sankar, Film Director and screenplay writer of Malayalam movies successfully handles multiple roles in life - one that of an extremely successful IT professional and the other in the Cine world. His films have been very well received and his first movie ‘Passenger’ received many awards. Ranjith Sankar has now turned Producer as well under the banner 'Dreams N Beyond'. More...