Saturday, November 8, 2014

08nov2014

She is the only AIADMK leader to have ever had the guts to contest a Lok Sabha election alone. On her 66th birthday, in February 2014, she had sought from her people a very special birthday present: all of Tamil Nadu’s 39 Lok Sabha seats. She won 37.
http://www.openthemagazine.com/article/nation/the-invisible-empress-of-surrealistan
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A Shah Overthrown
A key component of these was the information bus, a software program that consolidated transactions from across the market on a single screen, in real time. The most popular one was built by TIBCO—a Silicon Valley company owned by another tech wizard from Mumbai, Vivek Ranadivé—which had digitised most of the brokerage firms and trading floors on Wall Street.
They called it the “Baba Bus,” after Rohira, who was said to behave like a hermit. His bus was a far-sighted piece of code, written for TCP, a new internet communication protocol that was unsettling the established technology, X.25. “It was a call we took at the time,” Neralla said. “And we were proven right.”
When Financial Technologies launched its marquee product, the broker terminal software ODIN, it had two unbeatable features.
http://www.caravanmagazine.in/reportage/shah-overthrown
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