Category: Rodin

A Constitutional questionNew 

Oct 16, 2026 | ,

The question is this – what is the difference that the Constitution of India makes to the lives of citizens of and people living in India? After 76 years of the Constitution, this may seem a bizarre question, but it is not. It is so easy to fall into an idealized view of a constitution as a basic document holding together people of a country, but the harsh truth is that a constitution can divide a people too. Are we expecting, no demanding, too much from our constitution? Are there limits to what constitutions can do? The misgivings about the constitution have accompanied it almost since its inception. Some of these have been given voices by judgements of learned Judges at both High Courts and the Supreme Court of India, during their tenure and later.

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The real change in IT services business

Sep 18, 2026 | ,

IT firms never had to confront the question of technology, with their worlds largely revolving around application software. Until now. In an era of proliferating software, including apps, the big IT service companies built a huge business out of system integration. Now for the first time they need to confront technology/technologies but their trajectory or trajectories. It is anybody’s guess which path they will traverse.

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The curious case of corporate brands

Sep 2, 2026 | ,

Building a corporate brand other than based on a family name is a different challenge. We have seen in India over the last 2-3 decades the emergence of successful corporate brands built out of a single business with a product/business brand that does not mention a family name. Some of them rose above their origins by reducing themselves to a set of alphabets. Slippery and nebulous and constantly reminding you of the six visually impaired men and an elephant, brands are an alluring field of exploration, especially corporate brands.

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Agentic AI model: foundational problems

Jul 6, 2026 | ,

Model development was always a challenge in any subject but is more so in an area where abstraction is the foundational attribute: AI. I have written earlier also that abstraction is the first step to building great software and especially in AI, because AI works on abstraction, which depends on mathematics of the highest level. Most people will say data but what they forget is that the model needs data and vast amounts of it, precisely because it has to abstract from it so as to work effectively whatever be the data. The model abstracts from the data so that it can work on any data! This is the crux of any model.

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Poor data quality, not AI infrastructure

Jun 18, 2026 | ,

A superior technology such as AI cannot wash away the sins of poor implementation which inevitably results in poor data quality and as source data to AI. Will this poor quality of data not escalate problems with the embedding of AI in an ERP software? Analytics, the darling of consultants for over a decade, could well become an unmitigated disaster. It is firmly established that poor data quality alone remains one of the principal causes of failures in the efficient use of AI systems. Interestingly, the database as the OS, an idea articulated by Professor Michael Stonebraker, could be the opening to a new way of looking

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