Ashutosh Nilkanth's Blog

It’s high time we realize the disadvantages of an elite education.

Note to myself:

Conditions are never just perfect. People who delay action until all factors are favorable are the kind who do nothing.

The wishbone can never replace the backbone.

Now you can also join me on Twitter, a social messaging service.

Twitter is a service for friends, family, and co–workers to communicate and stay connected through the exchange of quick, frequent answers to one simple question: What are you doing?

I’ll be posting quick thoughts and small rants on Twitter, while the bigger articles and other opinions will be posted on this blog. Stay tuned!

As Paras Chopra informed me, the BarCamp Delhi conference is coming up in October. BarCamp is an international network of user generated conferences, often focusing on early-stage web apps, and related open source technologies, social protocols, and open data formats.

Paras mentions:

BarCamp Delhi – 11th and 12th October 2008 at IIT-Delhi

“Ideologies separate us. Dreams and anguish bring us together”, said Eugene Ionesco. Only if he were alive today, he would definitely have been one of the speakers at the upcoming BarCampDelhi, where dreamers and entrepreneurs from all across India will come together this October to celebrate human ingenuity. To accommodate people like Eugene, we are redefining the agenda of BarCampDelhi completely. We adore discussions on technology and we love hackers but we would like to open this even up to a wider range of thinkers outside of just technology. We would like to include topics which are intellectually stimulating, irrespective of whether they are tech oriented or not.

As we’re looking for great thinkers in many domains outside of tech, we are asking for your help in reaching out to people in areas such as law, culture, health and wellness, art, finance and any other topic that would help spread the spirit of knowledge sharing that BarCamps are all about.

For more information about BCD5 either visit http://wiki.barcampdelhi.com and http://blog.barcampdelhi.com or email back to us. We promise to reply to you as soon as possible. You are, of course, welcome to email us back directly as well.

Regards,
BarCamp Delhi Team

PS: Aza Raskin (Lead UI, Firefox) might be at BarCampDelhi too.

What is power? Is it wealth, is it affluence, is it assets, what is it? Philosophers have thought about this, [and] they have found the seat of power — knowledge!

“A king is honoured only in his own kingdom, but a man of knowledge is honoured everywhere.”

Filmmaker Ashutosh Gowariker, the director of Swades – one of my favorite films, on why it is time to end rural alienation [in India], and how if at least one person in each family becomes computer literate, India will be transformed.

A simple ideology, that applies to many other developing nations as well.