Looking Back... Looking Ahead
DataQuest|December 2017

It’s about celebrating and remembering the stalwarts who built the IT industry, it’s about the key inflection points in IT, it’s about key policy decisions and it’s about 35 years of nation building

Shrikanth G
Looking Back... Looking Ahead

Circa December 1982: A tech magazine was born to cater the nascent IT industry. Even the term IT was unheard. Dataquest since then has come a long way. Today the multi-billion dollar IT industry is being swept by change, and all through the years and through the bubble, boom, and bust cyclesDataquest has chronicled the events that raged the IT industry and documented each and every event: the trails, tribulations and triumphs and also the nexus of forces that shaped the industry to what it is today.

DQ @ 35!

35 years is a landmark. It is time to pause for a moment and look back on the road traveled. Sometimes we need to look back to move forward. That’s what the issue is all about. It’s about celebrating the stalwarts who built the IT industry, it’s about the key inflection points in Indian IT, its about key policy decisions and much more. You will read all about it in this issue.

The author line up we have assembled for you is simply mind-blogging. Right from the Legendary F.C.Kohli, the first CEO of TCS to new age entrepreneurs like Vijay Shekhar Sharma of PayTM. The issue traverses the entire 35 years timeline of IT and unravels amazing details page after page. In the end, it is also about the influencer role played by Dataquest the last 35 years and being part of the IT industry.

Prime Minister, Narendra Modi in his congratulatory message said, “Dataquest’s journey of 35 years has coincided with a period of great technological progress, a time that many regard as the most technologically innovative period in human history.”

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