IT Engineer Skills are neither tested nor sufficient

Was going through my pending stack of magazines this Sunday and made a lot of interesting observations. RedHerring says India’s IT industry keeps booming, and revenues are expected to reach an ambitious $60 billion by 2010. Not just outsourced work, but even work from local Indian companies is increasing. But the biggest roadblock could come […]

Coming soon: an interesting post on India’s largest ecommerce site

Middle of this week, I will be posting an interesting note on IRCTC – India’s largest ecommerce site. If you have used IRCTC, you will find it worth reading. If you have not used it, you might want to try it out after reading the post. In any case, I would like to hear your […]

Developing 2nd level management

Was discussing with our investors / mentors today about developing second level leadership in Magnet. I think this has been something that we have struggled from the inception. We identify good people, they perform, then we plan growth. And many can not cope up with the demands of the new situations and increased expectations. I […]

83 Beautiful WordPress Themes

Kartik sent me a link to these 83 Beautiful WordPress Themes. I have not seen such a great collection of WP themes so far. And this list fulfills my long standing wish to just see a list of best themes and select one for me. I have taken on the Fresh Compact theme for now! […]

Ashok on BBC World tomorrow, on Budget 2007

Ashok Karania, Magnet‘s MD & CEO, will be on BBC World television tomorrow, morning 7.15 & 9.15 IST. He will be giving his opinion on the Union Budget 2007 – especially how it affects entrepreneurs and IT sector. He is going to be sharing his views along with Pradipta from Zensar/RPG. Went for the interview […]