Jasjit’s Cyberoughts

Despite being an information security consultant, I violated one pillar of information security (Availability) and committed a cardinal sin of not backing up my website and blog configuration when my service provider informed me that they are planning to move this setup to new hardware.

Several things went wrong with the migration. The backup team forgot to restore my DNS zone and database. Consequently I was offline Read more »

I was amused to read these comments from Yale environmental law professor Daniel Esty in the article “When poor people pollute - the Tata Nano and eco-crime” published in The Register UK, on Februrary 12, 2008.

In this article, Mr. Etsy said “It’s small, it’s cheap, it’s low emission so… the arrival of the Tata Nano, India’s new ‘people’s car’, has been greeted Read more »

If you ever wonder what a foreigner, who has lived and worked in India for a considerable period, thinks of the country and its people, then “In spite of the Gods” by Edward Luce is a must read.

Edward Luce is a journalist and a graduate of Oxford University in politics, philosophy and economics. He married to an Indian and has travelled extensively across all states in India, while reporting for Financial Times from 2001 to 2005.

In “In spite of the Gods” Mr. Luce has touched almost every aspect of modern India. He has written about backward regions in north India, poverty Read more »

In 2001 when Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) started the open courseware (OCW) project, Anne Margulies, the project director would not have dreamt of the kind of response the project received and the difference it is poised to make for the institution and the students & educators spread across the world.

OCW project is a free publication of course materials used at MIT. At OCW website:

1. Get lecture notes, problem sets, labs and more.

2. Watch lecture videos and demonstrations.

3. Study a wide variety of subjects. Read more »