India's IT Story: 2012-09-16

Sunday, September 16, 2012

The Long Revolution now selling through Amazon

For readers in the US and other parts of the world, The Long Revolution is now shipping through Amazon.com

http://www.amazon.com/Long-Revolution-Dinesh-C-Sharma/dp/8172237685

Happy reading!

This is the tale of great transformation – how a country engaged in exports of spices and gems became a frontrunner in a knowledge-based sector? How a country known for its red tape turned into favoured investment destination for American technology giants? India's success in information technology has been a saga of converting skills and knowledge into capital and wealth. The book is an attempt to document this amazing transformation. The IT revolution is often seen as a 'miracle' of the new millennium. There are myths and there is hype ('India is an IT superpower'). There are claims and counter-claims on who fathered this transformation. This book is an attempt to set the records straight. It is an account of computing and information technology industry spanning half a century. How Bhabha and Mahalanobis developed early computers? How IBM entered the Indian market and ruled the roost for 25 years? Why was its monopoly broken? How new age entrepreneurs outpaced giants of Indian industry? How did the state turn into a facilitator from being an overbearing controller? How innovative use of communication technologies turned pigmy software firms into billion dollar companies? What role forces of liberalisation played? Can this miracle be sustained?

India's IT Story

From the era of Nehru and Bhabha

... to the age of outsourcing

Sunday, September 16, 2012

The Long Revolution now selling through Amazon

An Indian Journalist's Diary from the Arctic

Mahesh Rangarajan, Historian and author :

N Seshagiri, former Director General, National Informatics Centre: