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Between
the Bytes
The
soul of a new magazine
“Be careful,” my well-meaning but decidedly risk-averse
friends and relatives warned me. “They’ll make you
slog and then pay you a pittance, if anything!” But throwing
caution to the wind, I took up the project to launch India’s
first weekly IT newsmagazine back in the spring of 1990.
NOSTALGIA
The
making of an educated man
1995. Bombay was renamed Mumbai. Al Jazeera was something
you drank to help digestion. F C Kohli was a year younger
than God. Microsoft launched an OS which had more bugs than
a street mongrel. The Indian IT industry was worth about Rs
3,000 crore. Okay, give or take a couple of thousands.
Phulowri
Bina Chutney Kaise Bani?
Phulowri bina chutney kaise bani? How can you make dumplings
without the chutney? This Bhojpuri song is apt to describe
the role of EC. The IT media industry cannot be complete without
Express Computer—the original.
My
life at Express Computer
My life as a geek started off in the dungeons of a software
company as a technical writer. In a vast cubicle farm that
would have made Dilbert feel right at home, I would slave
over computer screens and try to describe how software programs
should be used. Those were the hoary old days of PC XTs and
5-1/2 inch floppy disks, when you did a ‘Control-S’
and could feel the computer chug away industriously to save
your files.
What
INDIA INC. SAYS about us
Express Computer allows me to keep track of technology trends.
This is one of the few publications that gives coverage to
both big players as well as new innovations coming from start-ups.
They highlight trends with an understanding of the technology
domain.
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