‘Interviews’ Archive

Interview: Dr RK Pachauri (IPCC) November 8, 2009 1 Comment

“Is the climate change situation as dire as you make it sound?” Is invariably the first question that any interviewer puts to Dr. Rajendra Kumar Pachauri, chairman of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) and the director general of The Energy and Resources Institute. Ever since 2007, when Pachauri came out with earth shattering [...]

Interview: Jimmy Wales (Wikipedia) June 12, 2009 1 Comment

‘Jimbo’ is how Jimmy Wales is quite wellknown within the cyber community and there is an interesting story as to how he got this nickname. Years back, when Jimbo was kick-starting the community project (predescessor of Wikipedia), he was looking for a user name or a nickname, since most of the permutations involving his first [...]

Interview: Sundar Raman (CEO, IPL) May 24, 2009 1 Comment

In an interview, IPL’s CEO Sundar Raman spoke about how technology has really impacted the sport of cricket and how technology and IT has helped making IPL the kind of show that it is. This interaction was published in the Dataquest Magazine. ****** DLF IPL has revolutionised the way the Cricket is watched and followed in [...]

Interview: G Madhvan Nair (ISRO) April 13, 2009 1 Comment

Getting to speak to Mr. G Madhvan Nair is an opportunity that I pride on. Hopefully some years down the line, I will be telling incidents to my grandchildren of how India had made a beginning with space exploration in 2008 by launching the Chandrayaan and how I interviewed the chairman of the agency. But [...]

Interview: Bob Rickert (CIO, Barclays) January 29, 2009 No Comments

In an interview, Barclay’s CIO Bob Rickert spoke about his own experiences with IT and banking. This story was published in the Dataquest Magazine. ********* I am willing to outsource the doing but not the thinking For Bob Rickert, cooking is more than a hobby. In his free time, he can be seen in his [...]

Interview: Peter Dengate Thrush (ICANN) March 21, 2008 No Comments

As it is, interviewing a lawyer is a tough task. And if the lawyer heads an organization that is often embroiled in controvresies, the task becomes more oneros was my dilemma, as I started my interaction with Peter Dengate Thrush, chairman of the board, ICANN. The Kiwi Barrister had come down to India for an [...]

Interview: Jim Rygiel (Three times Academy Award winner for LOTR) July 25, 2007 No Comments

Now, as I was posting my VFX story (right below this one), I remembered an interview that I had done with Jim Rygiel, who was the VFX supervisor for the LOTR trilogy. It was my biggest international story at that time. And it was an amazing feeling interacting with Rygiel, as I am a great [...]