Disclosure: One day in late 1995, Ajit Balakrishnan phoned me and asked if I’d like to join a new internet company he was setting up. “Internet? Er...you mean the Information Superhighway?” I replied, trying not to sound like an ignoramus. I spent the next couple of weeks trying to convince him that I was quite wrong for the job, while he tried to convince me that I was right for it. Fortunately for me, he won, and I ended up working at rediff.com for the next few roller-coaster years.