reflections

Thursday, August 2, 2007

Light Emitting Diodes

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Business India , December 19, 2005-January 1, 2006 Chips of light LEDs convert electricity much more efficiently into light than say incande...

Perception and Technology

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Business India , January 29, 2006 Psy-Tech Can the soft sciences combine with hard technology to produce winners? Shivanand Kanavi The word ...

Linux and all that

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Business India, October 13-26, 2003 The penguin has arrived Tux, the penguin, symbol of Linux, is spreading out of the sweaty rooms of pony...

A Hollywood Beauty and CDMA

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Business India, January 25 - February 7, 1999 Reaching out with spread spectrum A 60-year-old idea patented by a Hollywood actress is ...
Friday, July 27, 2007

Nuclear, anti-nuclear

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The Sunday Observer , June 20-26, 1993 Our lonely nuclear high priests Shivanand Kanavi In a ceremony at Trombay on January 20, 1957, to nam...

Arthashastra

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The Sunday Observer , February 2-8, 1992 The Real Chanakya is lost in CHANAKYA, the TV Serial Shivanand Kanavi Many viewers are beginning to...
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Thursday, July 26, 2007

Amar Bose--A Portrait

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Business India , January 22-February 4, 2001 In pursuit of excellence Shivanand Kanavi Amar Bose (Photo Credit: Palashranjan Bha...
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Nuclear Engineering--PHWR

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BUSINESS INDIA , October 7-20. 1996 Nuclear Heart Transplant The heart of the 16-year-old Rajasthan-II reactor is being removed and repl...

Shishunal Sharieff Saheb

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The Weekend Observer , 25 July 1992 Kabir of Karnataka The nineteenth century saint Sharieff Saheb of Shishunal, though born in a devout Mus...

A Tribute--Stephen Hawking turns 50

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The Weekend Observer , 22 February, 1992 Hawking, God and the Big Bang Shivanand Kanavi Physicist Stephen Hawking, well known for his contri...
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Shivanand Kanavi
Shivanand Kanavi is former Vice President, TCS and is currently Adjunct Faculty at National Institute of Advanced Studies (NIAS), Bengaluru. He writes on business, science & technology, Indian history, political economy and philosophy. He is a popular speaker in IITs, Universities and higher educational institutions, as well as in Radio and TV. Shivanand studied Theoretical Physics at IIT Kanpur; Northeastern University, Boston and IIT Bombay. He was the Executive Editor of Business India magazine, a pioneer in Business Journalism in India till 2004. He has written extensively on Business and Technology. He was awarded the Madhu Valluri Award for IT Journalism for the year 2004. Shivanand has authored the highly acclaimed “Sand to Silicon: The amazing story of digital technology” (Tata-McGraw Hill 2004, Rupa 2006). Shivanand worked in the largest IT services company TCS as Vice President-Special Projects from 2004 to 2010. He has edited, “Research by Design-Innovation and TCS” (Rupa, 2007). He was Global Head, Marketing and Strategic Communication of CMC Ltd, a subsidiary of TCS, from 2010 to 2013. Email: skanavi@gmail.com, Twitter: @shivanandkanavi , Mob: +919820225869
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