Spot NITI Aayog CEO Amitabh Kant wearing HoloLens; what it is and how it has many industrial applications

Amitabh Kant (Photo Courtesy: Twitter)

LOOK at this photo. The person wearing HoloLens is none but Amitabh Kant, 1980 batch retired IAS currently serving as NITI Aayog CEO in a post-retirement assignment. The photo was posted in Twitter on Saturday after Kant was given a demonstration on what mixed reality is all about and what experiences one gets once HoloLens are worn. In fact, mixed reality, which is also described as hybrid reality, is defined as…

Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella, his IAS father, Naxalism and “dead revolutionaries of Srikakulam”

Nadella while listening to PM Modi at San Jose, California

EVERYONE knows who Satya Nadella is. No prize for guessing it. He is the CEO of Microsoft. But some of you may be unaware of a factoid -- Nadella is the son of an IAS officer named BN Yugandhar. Yugandhar, a 1962 batch IAS had trained and influenced many officers including former foreign secretary Nirupama Rao in Mussoorie academy. Later he became a member of Planning Commission of India, now called NITI Aayog. On Saturday night, as Prime Minister Narendra Modi attended the Digital India dinner at San Jose of Silicon Valley, Nadella referred to an incident of Naxalism that he…

IAS officer’s son Satya Nadella and Ludwig Von Mises’ book “Bureaucracy”

IAS officer's son Nadella of Microsoft

IF 46-year-old Satya Nadella, son of 1962 batch IAS officer BN Yugandhar, becomes the CEO of the world’s fourth largest company by market cap, Microsoft, he would arguably be the most successful son of an Indian bureaucrat, globally. But, are sons and daughters of veteran bureaucrats, Yugandhar being one of them rising in the hierarchy to become a Planning Commission member, no longer interested in Indian civil services? In fact, the trends of the last decades have demonstrated that sons and daughters of top Indian officers are going...