New tech trickle down
Atal Bihari Vajpayee, or at least his very formidable army of media managers, must send a protest note to NASSCOM's Dewang Mehta. Why did he have to persuade Bill Gates to break journey for just a day in India, on his way to the Olympics in Sydney.



Those who don't read history ...
Visibly upset over the moves being made in Kashmir by the then Prime Minister, the late Rajiv Gandhi, Governor Jagmohan wrote to Rajiv advising him to read the history of Kashmir before embarking on any grand strategy.



Laptop politics
Microsoft chairman Bill Gates has zealous fans all over the world. But none of them can compete with UP chief minister Ram Prakash Gupta. Never mind if he is 76, and cannot distinguish a software from a hardware, he is much more enthusiastic about computers than any Net nerd of the X-generation.



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