Santosh is an avid explorer and an entrepreneur in the technology space. He’s had a blog on the web since 2000 and has worked with Persistent Systems, Pune, Research in Motion, Seattle and Internet startup TeamOn Systems, Seattle. He truly believes that the Geek-Entrepreneur will inherit the Earth and advises that businesses in India need a healthy dose of optimism in order to win.
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Anjali hijacked Santosh’s blog when they teamed up to start a company. She is passionate about the Internet and believes life is short so it’s important to stay true to one’s dreams.
She started with Persistent in Pune. In the 1999 boom time, she founded Emphatech, a startup in the instant messaging domain. She worked with web companies like Netegrity Inc (in Boston) and e-commerce companies such as Amazon.com in Seattle. Her search for business learning and the right team took her to Wharton School where she completed an M.B.A. in 2005. She is a B.E. Computer Science from College of Engineering (Pune).
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Sukshma, is from Sanskrit-Hindi. The Oxford Hindi-English Dictionary defines it as “1. minute, slender, thin, fine. 2. subtle (thought, distinction, analysis); searching (investigation). 3. delicate refined. (and so on�). It maybe transliterated as sukshm or sukshma.
Credit for the name of the blog is due to brilliant Vishal. The picture title of Mount Rainier and Lake Erie was taken on a trek to the Tolmie Peak in Washington. Thanks to Sarjana for stitching up the images. This site and blog do not represent the views of Santosh or Anjali’s company, previous employers, or the views of their near and dear ones.
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12 responses so far ↓
mohammed latif // February 12, 2007 at 7:09 am
hey buddy! What’s up? Like I dont know you but I visited ur web site and liked the name … ‘Sukshma’!!!! Me An Indian settled in UAE and working as an IT Professional here in Dubai Internet City! Good to know abt ya…take care! Have a nice day!
Khushi // March 23, 2007 at 10:50 pm
The picture of Mt Rainier on your blog makes my desire even more adamant to visit this nature’s masterpiece.
Your blog along with the person behind it, as always is a source of inspiration.
Good luck in all your endeavors.
Sameer Oak // April 4, 2007 at 4:03 am
Hello Santosh,
While browsing through, I came across a few notes written about opensource.
I have 6 years of exeperience in Linux systems programming (not kernel level) in C, all with product based companies.
Kindly let me know what all products in your companies porfolio. I am keen to join a startup for the simple reason of “sky is the limit.”
Regards
- sameer oak.
max // May 1, 2007 at 9:02 am
Indeed a nicely put & informative site Santosh.. the effort is bearing fruits to many..
Have covered quiet a few varied techy aspects on your blogs.. which I came by desperately seeking help with Airtel Mobile Office.
The same remains unresolved but that ok..
Just wished I could use Opera Mini on Nokia 6070
& use the same fone to connect via MO, on a Win98 PC.
So, are you based out of Poona?
I myself do keep hopp ing ON&OFF in Poona & infact its here that I need NET either ways..
thanx in Advance
maxfactor2050 AT gmail DOT com
faizan // July 2, 2007 at 3:07 pm
it a very nice feature
pramod // July 21, 2007 at 11:33 am
i needed a internet connection from my nokia6070 mobile phone…. i dont know the settings ..i am having a airtel prepaid service ..if any one is having pls send ….
Praveen Singh // October 1, 2007 at 2:21 pm
Hi,
I have a Blackberry Pearl and use a post paid airtel connection. I was told at Airtel offices (after I bought it) it cannot be used as a modem using GPRS to connect my computer to the internet. On the net, I have come across posts that it can indeed be used to connect to the net. I have a MAC G4 Powerbook and would like to know if I can really use it as a modem to connect to the internet via GPRS. I have no intention of paying Rs.999 for Airtel’s data plan when GPRS costs Rs.499 that too on a pro-rata basis. I only need GPRS access when traveling.
Any help would be appreciated.
Thanks
Cheers
Praveen Singh
Ashish Baldua // December 9, 2007 at 1:17 am
Hello Santosh and Anjali,
Ashish from Citipals here.
Read your blog and really liked it. Its a very interesting one indeed. I see that you are interested in stuff that pertains to Indian startups and entrepreneur ventures.
Citipals is a website that caters specifically to Indian audiences and contains information on lifestyle entities such as restaurants, bars, theatres and of course movies in cities like Mumbai, Pune and Kolkata( Plan to extend the cities covered to many others in the near future).
We also enlist the new releases in Bollywood and Hollywood that are screened across the country.
Our objective behind emailing is to request you to post a story on the venture and effort, that specifically caters to the Indian audience.
We have created a new and interesting feature called MovieMatch. MovieMatch is a place where you can rate popular Bollywood and Hollywood movies. This feature enables you to compare your taste with your friends and at the same time, its also a great platform to make your opinion known to people.
We have created a facebook app for MovieMatch as well where facebook users can play MovieMatch.
ou can read our latest press release on a facebook app by us at http://blog.citipals.com/2007/11/moviematch-new-facebook-app-for-indians.html
We also tried something sarcastically funny in the recent past and you can read a bit about it at http://blog.citipals.com/2007/11/social-networks-mania_07.html ( this is a small jscript animation slideshow which shows what will happen if social networks become “really open”
Further, you can read out press release on MovieMatch- a small game which lets you and your friends share ratings and opinion on a set of hit bollywood and hollywood movies; both blockbusters and new releases at http://blog.citipals.com/2007/11/moviematch-compare-your-tastes-in.html
Press release for MovieMatch is posted at http://blog.citipals.com/2007/11/answer-to-users-quest-for-trusted.html
I hope that you will like the matter that we have gathered at citipals.
Looking forward to your reply.
PS: If you like the website, but due to some reason, are unable to post a story/article or our press release on our website, do let us know. We would love to have you as a contributing user on our website. citipals ensures that users have fun while sharing things that interests them.
Thanks,
Ashish
Fred Powers // January 17, 2008 at 10:47 pm
Santosh, do you happen to have an email address for either raj or jay agarwalla
(scrabulous) ?
I have created a game that I would like to post on facebook etc and hope they have a developer in India that would assist with the post.
many thanks,
fred
Yusof // February 24, 2008 at 7:08 am
Hi Sukhshma,
Having trouble posting this. Would it be possible for me to get an electropnic copy of your master’s theseis. I work in the Market Research analytics domain.
Ramesh Oak // July 1, 2008 at 1:23 am
hey, would be interesting to get some updates on Fabia…your January blogs received quite a few comments….stir it up it will make you feel special… again
Divyesh // July 1, 2008 at 4:34 pm
hey santosh and anjali,
Would surely be a pleasure to meet you guys at the barcamp IIT mumbai. Have been a regular there since ages but somehow missed you guys.
We at Delta Technologies have recently launched mad a freeware mobile learning initiative for the students appearing for cat, gmat, gre and equivilant exams.
Do visit www(dot)madmobilesoftware(dot)com or alternatively sms info mad to 56677 to download the application via GPRS.
Regards,
Divyesh.
P.S: the applications are freewares
and need no operational GPRS or any connectivity.
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