Hyderabad, Jan. 12 -- Raju Bhupathiraju

Amir Ullah Khan

Before the era of optical fibre cables and high-speed Digital Subscriber Lines (DSL) or even freely available landlines, the IT industry in Hyderabad technically started with a satellite and line-of-sight high-speed microwave link. It started with J A Chowdary (JAC), whose vision helped create a miracle in our city. In a sleepy town where scheduled meetings usually happened at 'Subah-Subah-Gyarah-Baje' (Early in the morning at eleven am),an Indian technocrat mustered up the audacity to change shape-up the fortunes of a four-hundred-year-old city which went sleepy post-Indian Independence.

JAC was looking for a place to start the communications network, the technical backbone of th...