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Sridhar, V. (15 December 2016). The changing face of IT. Financial Express.

Sridhar, V., Sagan, Krunal. (19 October 2016). Technology to the assistance of the flipped classroom model. Live Mint.

Sridhar, V. (15 October 2016). Spectrum bid 2016: A cautionary note. Deccan Herald.

Sridhar, V., Prasad, R. (14 September 2016). New kid on the block. Financial Express.

Sridhar, V. (September 2016). Telcos Set to Battle at India Spectrum Auction 2016. Voice & Data.

Panda, Saurav., Sridhar, V. (11 August 2016). WebRTC: Niche Tech empowers developers. Financial Express. 

Sridhar, V., Prasad, R. (7 July 2016). Net neutrality demand lacks Indian context. Hindu Business Line.

Sridhar, V. (30 June 2016). Time for Netizens to Say Yes, ICANN. Economic Times.

Prasad, Rohit., Sridhar, V. (9 June 2016). When competition marries cooperation. Hindu Business Line. Sridhar, V. (26 May 2016). Make IT for India. live Mint  Mishra, R. Sridhar, V. (26 May 2016). Business value of Wi-Fi. Financial Express.  Sridhar, V., Srikanth, T.K. (13 April 2016). Regulating the sharing economy. Financial Express.  Sridhar, V. (28 March 2016). Telcos, forget past and prepare to embrace 5G. Deccan Herald.  Kumar, Krishna., Sridhar, V. (21 March 2016). Giving BSNL a new lease of life. Hindu Business Line. Sridhar, V., Prasad, R. (11 February 2016). It is time to redefine net neutrality. Hindu Business Line.  Sridhar, V., and Srikanth, T.K. (23 January 2016). A watchdog for the WhatsApp economy? Hindu Business Line. Prasad, R., and Sridhar, V. (12 January 2016). Needed, a national fibre optic network, Mint.  Prasad, R., and Sridhar, V. (10 January 2016). There’s a fog over net neutrality. Business Line. 

Sridhar, V., and Srikanth, T.K. (24 December 2015). App Streaming: A paradigm shift in mobile apps. Financial Express.  Sridhar, V., and Raja, S.R. (16 December 2015). Imprisoned in the box. Business Line. Sridhar, V., and Nair, Pradeep. (30 November 2015). Product thinking? Why is it a secret sauce for the IT industry?. Financial Express. Sridhar, V., and Prasad, R. (26 November 2015). The savior of broadband in India. Financial Express.  Bubna, A., Prasad, R., and Sridhar, V. (07 November 2015). How the spectrum game is played. Business Line.  Sridhar, V., and Raja, S.R. (14 October 2015). Roti, kapda aur makan: the startup story. Yourstory.com 

Sridhar, V. (8 October 2014). How app-based taxis are advantageous. Deccan Herald.  Sridhar, V. (24 September 2015). Be free of call drops, tune in to FM radio. Business Line. Sridhar, V. (21 Sep 2015). Eat, Pray, Acquire. Economic Times.  Sridhar, V. and Prasad, R. (19 Aug 2015). Spectrum sharing: Catching the call drops. Economic Times. 

Sridhar, V. and Prasad, R. (19 Aug 2015). Unlicensed spectrum holds key for broadband revolution in India. Yourstory.com Sridhar, V. The meaning of India’s second IT boom. (18 Aug 2015).  Hindu Business Line.

Kumar, Krishna., and Sridhar, V. (24 July 2015). Getting set for the app economy. Financial Express.  Sridhar, V., Srikanth, T.K. (July 2015). Telco-OTT, a symbiotic relationship?. Voice & Data, 66-67.

Prasad, R., Sridhar, V. (July 2015). Unlicensed spectrum holds key for broadband revolution in India. Sridhar, V., Srikanth, T.K. (5 June 2015). For a win-win alliance in Telecom. Business Line. Sridhar, V., Prasad, R. (2015). How complex is Net Neutrality. Oxford University Press blog.  Sridhar, V., Srikanth, T.K. (23 March 2015). Internet of masses. Financial Express. Sridhar, V., Venkatesh, G. (17 March 2015). A differential calculus. Economic Times.

Sridhar, V., Srikanth, T.K. (13 January 2015). Who is liable in platform business? Financial Express. Sridhar, V. (December 2014). State of the Net: challenges and opportunities for telcos in India. Yourstory.com Sridhar, V., Srikanth, T.K. (January 2014) Domesticity: Handsets, applications, equipment, and software. Yourstory.com 

Sridhar, V., Manjunath, D. (December 2014). Fueling the Net Neutrality debate: OTT vs Telcos. Yourstory.com Sridhar, V., and Haidary, Anees. (December 2014). Project Management Lessons in Outsourced Product Development. Manage India (a publication of Project Management Institute India).  Sridhar, V., and Venkateswaran, R. (12 December 2014). Emergency! Take the call. Economic Times. Sridhar, V., and Prasad, R. (29 November 2014). Auction spectrum bands in one go. Business Line. Srikanth, T.K., and Sridhar, V. (24 November 2014). There is ever widening supply-demand gap for semiconductors. Financial Express. Sridhar, V., and Prasad, R. (24 November 2014). Why should Google and Facebook escape?. Financial Express.

Sridhar, V. (4 November 2014). Leveraging India Post for rural inclusion. Financial Express. Sridhar, V., and Sridhar, Kala Seetharam. (22 October 2014). This Nobel Laureate can help Telecom. Economic Times. Sridhar, V. (18 October 2014). Why Skype is skipping India. Business Line. Sridhar, V., and Prasad, Rohit. (9 October 2014). Bridging India’s spectrum deficit. Financial Express. Sridhar, V. (22 September 2014). State owned, but efficient. Financial Express. Sridhar, V., and Kokkinen, Heikki. (15 September 2014). Defence must vacate spectrum for wireless broadband. Financial Express. Manjunath, D., and Sridhar, V. (11 September 2014). Needed, a law to push Smart Data Pricing. Economic Times. Prasad, R., and Sridhar, V. (August 2014). The public trust doctrine in spectrum. Voice & Data, 55. Vembu, Dorairaj., and Sridhar, V. (18 August 2014). ICTs and smart cities. Financial Express. Sridhar, V. & Prasad, R. (12 August 2014). A step forward in spectrum sharing. Hindu Business Line.   Sridhar, V. (5 August 2014). Heads it’s Flipkart; Tails it’s Amazon. Economic Times

T.K. Srikanth, and Sridhar, V. (July).  Universal mobile broadband in the offing. Economic Times Blog - Telecom tête à tête

Vembu, Dorairaj., and Sridhar, V. (7 July 2014). Connected cars and their impact. Financial Express.

Venkatesh, G., & Sridhar, V. Apple after Steve Jobs. Economic Times Blog - Telecom tête à tête

Sridhar, V., and Kishore, K. (May 2014). How Internet radio could be the next big thing. Yourstory.com

Kumar, Shailendra., and Sridhar, V. (22 May 2014). Watch TV in a whole new way. Financial Express 

Sridhar, V. (May 2014). Why telecom matters for the new government. Economic Times Blog - Telecom tête à tête.

Sridhar, V., & Swami Krishnan. (April 2014). Partnerships to ponder in the Internet space.Economic Times Blog - Telecom tête à tête. 

Kudaithur, P., and Sridhar, V. (31 March 2014). Agile in India: A status check. DataQuest, 64-65.  Kishore, K. and Sridhar, V. (3 April 2014). Luring TV subscribers with online media services. Financial Express.  Kishore, K., Sridhar, V. (April 2014). Google’s Chromecast set to disrupt the gaming industry. Yourstory.com

Prasad, R., and Sridhar, V. (26 March 2014). Revamp wireless administration. Financial Express. 

Sridhar, V., & Swami Krishnan. (March 2014). How are Internet companies different from Telcos. Economic Times Blog - Telecom tête à tête. 

Srikanth, T.K., and Sridhar, V. (11 March 2014). Two-Sided Markets and Platforms: the theory behind the new-age startups in India, YourStory.com

Krishna Kishore, and Sridhar, V. (6 March 2014). Pluggable devices are here to stay. Financial Express.  Sridhar, V., and Swami Krishnan. (January 2014). Hottest Telecom trends for 2014. Voice & Data, 21(1), 32-33.  Anurada, C.S., and Sridhar,V. (6 December 2013). An alternate education. Hindu Business Line.  Sridhar, V., and Swami Krishnan. (2 December 2013). Top Ten Mobile Tech Predictions for 2014. YourStory.in.  Kala Seetharam Sridhar, and Sridhar, V. (27 November 2013). Telecommuting is the way to go. Financial Express. Sridhar, V., and Goswami, K (15 November 2013). Human Cloud – The emerging paradigm in outsourcing. Hindu Business Line. Sridhar, V., and G. Venkatesh. (5 November 2013). Weighing Twitter’s worth. Financial Express.  Sridhar, V., Venkatesh, G. (11 October 2013). Where Android scores over Linux. Hindu Business Line. Goswami, K. and Sridhar, V. (2 October 2013). End to End Solutions for SMEs. Hindu Business Line. Sridhar, V. Nokia: (1 September 2013). Nokia: Tribute to a giant. DataQuest; also appeared in September 2013 issue of Voice & Data. Mehta, R. and Sridhar, V. (27 September 2013). The next frontier for telcos. Hindu Business Line.  Sridhar, V., and G. Krishna Kumar. (24 September 2013). Realizing India’s broadband dream. Financial Express. 

Sridhar, V. and Muralikrishnan, G. (August 2013). Welcome to the new era. Voice & Data.  Kishore, K., Sridhar, V. (9 August 2013). Time to refurbish the idiot box. Business Line. Sridhar, V. and Prasad, R. (6 August 2013). Nothing wrong with spectrum sharing. Business Line.

Sridhar, V. and Venkatesh, G. (26 July 2013). The Dot Com survivors. Business Line

Muralidharan Alagar and Sridhar, V. (10 June 2013). Crash control, Financial Chronicle

Sridhar, V. (30 May 2013). The power of N=all, Review of the book titled “Big Data: A Revolution That Will Transform How We Live, Work, and Think”, Business Standard.

Sridhar, V. (17 May 2013). Paisa-fication of data. Business Line. 

Sekhar, Richa, Kothandaraman, Swaminathan & Sridhar, V. (6 May 2013). Estimation in software projects: Is it an art or science? Financial Express. 

Sridhar, V., & Raja, S.R. (5 May 2013). The app store battle. Business Standard.

Sridhar, V. (12 April 2013). Open up to open standards. Business Line.

Kishore, Krishna., and Sridhar, V. (7 March 2013). A potential solution to cable digitization. Financial Express

Sridhar, V. (5 March 2013). Maximizing spectrum revenue. Business Standard. Sridhar, V. (4 March 2013). DoT makes a bad call, again. Business Line.

Jayasuriya, Vanitha, Bhashyam, Narasimha & Sridhar, V. (25 January 2013).  Rich Communication Services: An opportunity for Telcos”.  Business Line.

Ravi, TVS., Sridhar, V. (31 January 2013). The story of Indian ERDs DataQuest.

Kala S Sridhar, Sridhar, V. (14 January 2013). India’s New Year revolution. Financial Express.

Sridhar, V., and Manjunath, D. (12 December 2012). Massively open online education. YourStory.com. Sridhar, V., Prasad, R. (3 January 2013). Rise of the telecom phoenix: Liberal spectrum policy, other reforms will revive the sector. Economic Times.

Venkatesh, G., Sridhar, V. (16 Nov 2012). Real time disruption. Business Line.

Amar, R.G., Sridhar, V. (15 November 2012). Embracing the “Agile” approach. DataQuest

Saxena, S., Sridhar, V. (27 Oct 2012). Going local on wireless broadband How about developing an indigenous 4G handset for Rs 3,650 in 365 days?. Business Standard

Sridhar V. (20 Oct 2012). Untangling the spectrum pricing knot. Financial Express

Sridhar, V., G. Venkatesh. (19 Oct 2012). Keeping the Internet open. Business Line.          

          Sridhar, V., D. Manjunath. (9 Oct 2012). The Internet is ringing. Economic Times.

Sridhar, V., Buchi, C. (Sep 2012). Is Wi-Fi offloading really good?. Voice & Data, 82-83.

          Sridhar, V., S.R. Raja. (7 Sep 2012). The changing landscape of mobile platforms. Hindu Business Line.

Sridhar, V., G. Krishna Kumar. (July 2012). Free Roaming – at what cost? Voice & Data.

Sridhar, V., and D. Manjunath. (17 July 2012). For a dynamic spectrum regime. Economic Times.

Jhunjhunwala, A. and Sridhar, V. (4 May 2012). Don't kill the golden goose. Indian Express.

Sridhar, V,, and Venkatesh, G. (30 Apr 2012). The Mobile Platform Wars: A 2-Sided Market View, DataQuest, 58-60.

Sridhar, V., and Krishna Kumar, G. Dialling Progress. Financial Chronicle,Feb 28, 2012

Collaborations in IT: Trouble Shared is Trouble Halved. DataQuest, Feb 29, 2012, 54-56. (with Selvaraj, V., & Ravindra, H.S.)

Telecom Policy for the future. Economic Times, Feb 17, 2011. 

Wireless broadband for rural health services. Financial Express, Jan 3, 2012 (with Arunabha Mukhopadhyay) 

ERP: Transcending Boundaries. DataQuest, Dec 15, 2011, 60-66 (with Ravindra, HS., and Selvaraj, V.)

For Telecom sense today. Economic Times, Oct 21, 2011 (with G Krishna Kumar)

A Primer on Project Management. Business Line, Sep 19, 2011 (with Ramakrishnan, L., and Selvaraj, V.)

Telecom policy lags practice. Economic Times, Sep 7, 2011. (with G Krishnakumar)

iCloud, a new ballgame for Apple. Business Line, Aug 8, 2011. (with Subhash P)

Rail safety is badly off track. Business Standard, July 30, 2011. (with Balasubramanian, S., Sridhar, V, and Raman, C.S.)

Mobile Internet: Indian Telecom Leading the Way, DataQuest, July 15, 2011 (with Heikki  Hämmäinen)

The Risks of Coming Home. Business Standard, June 18, 2011 (with Kala Seetharam Sridhar)

A Spectrum of uses, Business Line, June  6, 2011 (with Thomas Casey)

10-Point Agenda for New Telecom Policy, Economic Times, May 21, 2011 (with Swami Krishnan)

Threat to Walled Garden, Business Line, April 4, 2011 (with Subhash P)

Getting new caller tunes for BSNL, Financial Express, March 9, 2011 (with G Krishna Kumar)

Budget ’11: Subsidise Tech R&D, Economic Times,February 16, 2011 (with G.Venkatesh and Kala Sridhar)

Where’s the Tablet Headed, Business Line, January 24, 2011 (with Subhash P and SR Raja)

Changing world order in IT, Telecom, Economic Times, Jan 10, 2011 (with Rajiv Mody)

Economic Geography Matters. Economic Times, Nov 16, 2010 (with Kala Sridhar and G. Venkatesh)

A tech substitute for city travel. Economic Times, Sep 23, 2010 (with Kala Sridhar and G. Venkatesh)

Will e-Readers improve the adoption of e-books in India? Business Standard, Sep 20, 2010 (with Subhash, P and Siddharth Gaekwad)

Can BWA disrupt 3G services? Economic Times, Sep 8, 2010 (with G. Venkatesh)

One Paisa Revolution. Financial Express, Aug 4, 2010 (with Kala S Sridhar)

What’s in store for Mobile Telecom? Business Line, June 28, 2010 (with G. Venkatesh)

Towering Inferno. Economic Times . May 3, 2010 (with Rohit Prasad)

Mobiles for delivery of public services. Economic Times. Apr 29, 2010 (with Rajendra Ratnoo)

India should leapfrog to 4G. Economic Times. Mar 17, 2010 (with Pramod Pagare)

Gravy train stops at app platform, Economic Times. Mar 1, 2010 (with G. Venkatesh)

Are our cities ready for e-Governance, Jan 7, 2010 (with Kala Seetharam Sridhar)

What’s missing?. Business Line, Jan 4, 2010 (with S.R. Raja)

Caveats of Falling Mobile Charges. Economic Times, Oct 27, 2009 (with G. Venkatesh)

The M in learning. Business Line, Oct 5, 2009 (with G. Krishna Kumar)

Let the traffic flow. Business Line, Sep 14, 2009 (with G. Venkatesh). 

Telecommunication Partnerships to Ponder, Economic Times, Sep 9, 2009

Information Security : Of Human(e) Vulnerability, DataQuest, June 30, 2009. 

Mobile Unlimited. Economic Times, June 22, 2009 (with Siddharth Gaikwad)

Be your own Phone Exchange. Business Line, June 1, 2009 (with G. Venkatesh)

Learning from China: India Needs to Establish Large Universities of International Standards. Business Standard, May 31, 2009 (with Kala Seetharam Sridhar)

Need to Balance Products and Services. Economic Times, May 16, 2009 (with Selvaraj Vadivelu)

Femtocell: A Possible Way out of Spectrum Crunch, SmartTechie, April 2009 (with Pramod Pagare),

Will 3G Make Biz Sense?. Deccan Herald, Mar 16, 2009 (with Krishna Kumar).

Regulatory Dilemma over VoIP. Economic Times, Mar 4, 2009.

3G Delay Hurting the Economy. Economic Times, Feb 9, 2009 (with Rohit Prasad).

Improve Quality in Mobile Services. Economic Times, Dec 3, 2008 (with Minesh Sheth). 

Move Over to Foundations & Alliances. Economic Times, Sep 10, 2008 (with S R Raja). 

New Frontier of Telecom Policy. Mint, August 14, 2008 (with Rohit Prasad).

The Next Big Mobile Wave. Economic Times, July 16, 2008 (with S R Raja). 

Spectrum Policy too narrowly Focussed. Economic Times, June 1, 2008 (with Rohit Prasad). 

Are Operators Hoarding Spectrum. Economic Times, May 19, 2008 (with Rohit Prasad).

3G Policy will Drive up 2G Prices. Economic Times, April 5, 2008 (with Rohit Prasad).

Blossoming Telecom Partnerships. Economic Times, March 26, 2008.

Changing Landscape of IT Industry. Economic Times, February 15, 2008

Plethora of Document Standards. Economic Times, January 18, 2008.

Spectrum Peace Formula. Economic Times, December 19, 2007 (with Rohit Prasad).

Regulatory Flip-flops in Telecom. Economic Times, November 28, 2007 (with Rohit Prasad). 

How should Spectrum be Allocated? Economic Times, November 6, 2007. 

For a Contestable Mobile Market. Economic Times, November 2, 2007. (with Rohit Prasad). 

Mobile Competition: Fewer the Better. Economic Times, September 12, 2007. (with Rohit Prasad). 

How much should 3G services be opened up? Economic Times, July 24, 2007.

Diversify the Wavelengths. Financial Express, July 6, 2007.