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The book not only traces Mathai Joseph’s personal journey as a computer scientist but it also chronicles the story of a nation which was controlling the acquisition of computers as if their arrival signalled a danger. Author interview in Pune’s Sakaal Times (29 September 2013): http://www.sakaaltimes.com/ “Digital Republic: India’s rise to IT power”, is a memoir for our times. Starting with the early 1960s, Bombay provides a colourful backdrop to his college-years, the beginnings of an enduring love for literature, theatre and music, and to his long stint with TIFR. Book review in Hindu Business Line (R Dinakar, 27 September 2013): http://www. Author interview with Stephen Ibaraki (July 2013): http://stephenibaraki.com/ Eunice de Souza in Mumbai Mirror (16 May 2013): I was intrigued by one of the sub-titles of Mathai Joseph’s “Digital Republic: India’s rise to IT Power”, which described the book as a combination of “History and Memoir”. They are rather different genres, one personal and anecdotal, and the other relatively factual.However, if you are Mathai Joseph who studied at Bombay, Cardiff and Cambridge, and was one of the first computer scientists at the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research in Mumbai, it makes sense …http://www.mumbaimirror.com/columns/columnists/eunice-de-souza/Digital-republic/articleshow/20079891.cms Rishikesha T Krishnan: MJ is a good raconteur and I can see that his interest in poetry and literature right from his college days have had a positive impact on his ability to tell a good story. http://jugaadtoinnovation. Author interview in Pune’s Sakaal Times (29 September 2013): http://www.sakaaltimes.com/ Author interview with Stephen Ibaraki (July 2013): http://stephenibaraki.com/ Eunice de Souza in Mumbai Mirror (16 May 2013): I was intrigued by one of the sub-titles of Mathai Joseph’s “Digital Republic: India’s rise to IT Power”, which described the book as a combination of “History and Memoir.” They are rather different genres, one personal and anecdotal, and the other relatively factual. However, if you are Mathai Joseph who studied at Bombay, Cardiff and Cambridge, and was one of the first computer scientists at the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research in Mumbai, it makes sense … Rishikesha T Krishnan: MJ is a good raconteur and I can see that his interest in poetry and literature right from his college days have had a positive impact on his ability to tell a good story. Avantika Bhuyan in Business Standard: Mathai Joseph was at his wit’s end. He had visited six to eight publishing houses with his manuscript, only to receive lukewarm responses. I realised that publishing houses weren’t so interested in history and memoirs, he says. |
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