Varadarajan @hpcmechanic

There are questions about where Zoho is developed and where the data is hosted and who hosts it. There is a lot of false information we want to correct. 1. All the products are developed in India. Our global headquarters is in Chennai and we pay taxes in India on our global…

🇮🇳 In case you're looking for Swadeshi alternatives that are equally good, private & safe: Google Chrome → @UlaaBrowser Gmail → @ZohoMail GPay or PhonePe → @NPCI_BHIM or Bank's own UPI apps Google Sheet → @ZohoSheet WhatsApp → @Arattai Google Password Manager →…

My brother Kumar wrote a post titled: "How patient execution beats aggressive capital" which is a must read for entrepreneurs: zoho.com/the-long-game/… Kumar started the company in Chennai that eventually became the Zoho today. Practically every senior manager at Zoho was…

Striking visual of the growth in product range of Zoho and ManageEngine from 2002 to today. We are the only company in the world that can take on Microsoft in the breadth and depth of the product suite. Our products offer a vastly superior experience to Microsoft, please take a…

Update on our Arattai messenger app: It is another example of our patient engineering approach at work. We have taken the time because we have to make it work in low end phones, low bandwidth networks (we test down to 8 kilobits/sec), offer outstanding privacy and security, and…

Thank you Sir, this is a huge morale boost for our engineers who have worked hard for over two decades to build our product suite. We will make you proud and make our nation proud. Jai Hind 🙏

Ashwini Vaishnaw @AshwiniVaishnaw

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Thank you Sir, this is a huge morale boost for our engineers who have worked hard for over two decades to build our product suite. We will make you proud and make our nation proud. Jai Hind 🙏

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This article (link in comment) from India Today by technology editor Javed Anwer spells out some harsh truths on how Indian IT services firms missed the bus. The roots go much deeper. Sadly, the intellectual environment in India, the kind of people we respected and listened to,…

I claim credit for nothing. Everything is determined, the beginning as well as the end, by forces over which we have no control. It is determined for the insect as well as for the star. Human beings, vegetables or cosmic dust, we all dance to a mysterious tune, intoned in the…

There is a vast Bharat that is not obsessed about prestigious credentials, not obsessed about speaking perfect English, not obsessed about enrolling 11 year old kids (yes!) in JEE or NEET coaching and not obsessed about the stock market - it is talent from that Bharat that has…

Honestly Chennai’s hardware startup ecosystem deserves way more PR. A late-night rant → 24 hrs later, I got a call from @TRBRajaa sir’s office & @aprsiva sir extending help. The entire government machine is here backing founders . The tweet also cracked two big narratives 👇

He rejected a $25M buyout while his company was on its deathbed. The dot-com crash had destroyed his customer base. But Sridhar Vembu had a crazy idea to save his company. No investors. No debt. No Silicon Valley playbook. Just this insane recruiting strategy: 🧵

For the last 70 years, Royal Enfield has made Chennai their only home. All of their 4 plants are in and around Chennai. The first one started in 1955 and the latest one is starting next year: Tiruvottriyur - 10 acres (1955) Oragadam - 50 acres (2013) Vallam - 65 acres (2017)…

கூகிள் மேப்பை பயன்படுத்தி எந்த ஒரு இடத்தின் உரிமையாளரையும் சுலபமாக கண்டுபிடிக்கலாம்...! புரோக்கர்களின் பின்னால் அலைய வேண்டியதில்லை...!

He took pride in calling him as Dwitiya Rama after his victory in Sri Lanka.

This is one of the largest inscriptions in Sanskrit in Tamil Nadu, inscribed by himin the east wall of the second prakara of Srirangam temple. Written using Grantha alphabet and flanked by the twin Fish symbol of Pandyas, it has thirty Sanskrit verses detailing the history of the…

His Meikeerthi says அருமறையோர் ஐவேள்வி ஆறங்கமுடன்சிறப்ப அருந்தமிழும் ஆரியமும் அறுசமயத்து அறநெறியும் திருந்துகின்ற மனுநெறியும் திறம்பாது தழைத்தோங்க His rule enhanced the five Yajnas performed by Vedic Brahmins and Six Vedangas. He glorified both Tamil and Sanskrit, Dharma…

Today is the birthday of “Original Thala”, the great Pandya King Jatavarman Sundara Pandiyan. He was born on Chittirai - Mula Nakshatra. He was an excellent warrior and also a Dharmic King. One day he went to have a Darshan of Sri Ranganathar. That time Bhattacharyas were…

When a few people have a lot of wealth and lots of people have nothing, these are the 5 choices societies make, and we see examples of these around the world: 1. The people with wealth create employment and develop skills in the broader population. 2. The people with wealth…

What is ailing the software job market is not AI taking away jobs (not yet anyway). Here is my thesis, as a participant and observer of software for 30 years. Over those 30 years: 1. Massive over-capacity steadily developed in enterprise software due to a flood of VC, PE and…