As friends are aware, the cyber world continues to be an enduring passion. US President Barak Obama’s election was the coming of age of the Internet in the American electoral process and he is certainly the most tech-savvy head of state the US has ever had. I wrote  Obama enters cyber world, which was published in The Tribune on January 29, 2009. Please click here to read the article. Coincidently, exactly a month before that, I has written about serious security concerns for the Government of India and privacy issues for Net users. This article, Cyber security should safeguard privacy, was published in The Tribune on December 29, 2008. Please click here to read the article.

A new MMS scandal has erupted in Noida, and a girl’s intimate moments have become public, thanks to an estranged lover, who posted them on the Net. The Internet is a tool, and it is also being increasingly used for criminal activities. While on the one hand, the nation should be justifiably be proud of having an IT law and upgrading it, unfortunately the Bill was not even discussed when it was presented to Parliament, as has been the fate of most of the bills in the 14^th Lok Sabha, which just finished its term. Please click here to read my article on strengthening the IT law.

The most common complaint of Internet users in India is that their broadband connection is not delivering what was promised to them. Finally there is some hope for all of us, the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) has given guidelines to ensure that ISPs and telecom operators will provide the minimum required broadband speed to their customers. Please click here to read my article.

It is not often that you come across a good translation of a good book in Punjabi. The Tale of the Phoenix is one such volume. The author, Dalip Kaur Tiwana, is considered one of the best contemporary Punjabi novelists and Nikky-Guninder Kaur Singh, the translator, is herself a product of the same milieu —Patiala and Punjabi University figured prominently in both their lives, as also mine.
Dalip Kaur Tiwana is a student of my mother, Inderjit Kaur Sandhu. When my mother became Vice-Chancellor of Punjabi University, Patiala, one of the three women in the world to hold that position at that time, Dalip Kaur was a colleague and Nikki the daughter of a very dear and venerable colleague, Professor Harbans Singh. Of course, I have known them both for a long time, and it was one of the attractions of the book…however, my review reflects my unbiased view. Please click here to read it.