Farouk Luqman – “In love with Kerala”
IN the late 1950s, long before people started migrating to the Gulf states including Saudi Arabia, I had Indian friends in a hostel at St. Xavier’s College in Mumbai. Some of them hailed from Kerala, a newly named state in the south of India. So we decided to travel by train to the capital Trivandrum […]
Techie paradiso:On kerala’s transformation as the natural abode of techies
Kerala positioned itself in the IT map of the country with the establishment of Technopark Trivandrum the first IT Park in India. However the state could not sustain the momentum generated by the establishment of Technopark. But of late Kerala is doing everything it can to establish itself as a premium IT destination. It plans […]
From Ananthapuri to Cyberpuri
Trivandrum is on its way to become the biggest IT hub in the country. Some of the prerequisites of an IT hub are excellent infrastructure, availability of qualified personnel, an environment nurturing entrepreneurship & attractive living conditions; and the city scores high on each one of these factors. Infrastructure Technopark, Trivandrum was set up in […]
Technopark set to become the numero uno of IT parks
On July 2013 Technopark India’s first & currently one of the three largest IT parks completed 23 years of its existence. Started in July 1990 exactly a year before India’s economic reforms it was envisaged as a facility to nurture & advance the development of high tech industries in the state. With the visionary technocrat […]
