At 10:00:00 tomorrow morning, several hundred thousand Indians will do the same thing at the same instant, which is press a button.Some will have been logged in since 09:47. Some will have passenger details pre-saved, payment method selected, thumb hovering half a centimetre above the glass. One or two, in the manner of a driver creeping at the lights, will click at 09:59:58 and be sent to the back of the queue for their trouble. Then the window opens, and within roughly the length of a pop song, much of the useful availability on a popular train may be gone.About The AuthorAt heart, I am a storyteller drawn to the watershed moments that bend the technology landscape. I braid narrative with data, humanise statistics, and trace the arc from first spark to world-changing impact. My reportage, features and reviews are witty, sardonic, visual and vivid, using anecdote to illuminate rather than eviscerate.
As a technology journalist with over sixteen years of experience, I have travelled the world and the seven seas, covered every major tech conference worth its lanyard, chronicled the defining breakthroughs of the last decade and a half, and played a pivotal role in launching some of India’s most important technology publishing platforms across web, print and TV.
