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Year 2012	Now the blind and deaf can ‘read' and send SMS, PocketSMS Application helps the visual and audial impaired read’ SMS by converting messages into morse code vibrations. The Hindu, 16 April 2012. An Indian graduate student has developed a mobile application that enables people with sight and hearing impairments to send and receive text messages. Indian designer develops Morse-based texting for deaf phone users, SciDev Net, 09 April 2012 Read the News here. Indian designer develops Morse-based texting for deafphone users, Sci-Tech, Dawn, 10 April 2012 PocketSMS Lets Visually And Hearing Impaired Send &Receive SMS, Medianama, 11 April 2012. In the article Nazar, Zuban aur Kaan banti takneek, (Hindi), 19 February 2012, NavBharat Times, Bapsi's mobile apps for deafblind, PocketSMS was published. Read the news here. In autism, victories come with beeps and candies, The Progress, 12 April 2012. More than a billion people in the world today experience disability suggests the first ever World report on disability, produced jointly by WHO and the World Bank. Download the report here. A study published in the Journal of Autism and Development Disorders, found that a region of the Netherlands known for high-tech industry has substantially higher levels of autism-spectrum conditions than two other regions. (More at blog_wsj and here)
Year 2011	"Understanding Mobile Phone Radiation and Its Effects", Economic & Political Weekly vol xlvI no 17, 23 April 2011. Visit the EPW page here. Read the paper here
Year 2010	Technology To Aid The Disabled, December 2010 EFYTimes.com. Read the article here Assistive technology comes to aid the specially-abled, 20 August 2010, Business Standard "Tailor-made technology helps physically challenged to reconnect with the digital world". Read the article here It's time technology abled disabled kids in India, 13 July 2010, Deccan Herald. Read the article here "Radiation and Human Beings" Sahara Time, Issue 19 June 2010. The article was published under "Nation : Towers of death". Read the article here Reinventing Arpit's wheel, Hindustan Times Mint, 17 June 2010. See the video here Read the article here "Intriguing silence on China's Cyber Espionage" Sahara Time, Issue 22 May 2010. The Article was published under "Cover Story: A New War". "The capabilities and priorities of our security establishments need to be put under the scanner.They are seeking to prevent the use of Chinese phones and other telecom equipments, for fear of hidden trapdoors, while leaving their own computers wide open to cyber attacks." Read the article here "WiFi better than WiMax for rural broadband" Sahara Time, Issue 15 May 2010. The article was published under the "Column: Telecom Policy". "In a WiFi based network community, the skills for setting up and rebuilding the network are local. In a cyclone they can simply bring the equipment in shelter until the storm passes." Read the article here "For $ 900, you can spy on anyone", Sahara Time, Issue May 8 2010. The article was published under Cover Story: Tapping Technology. Read the article here Arun Mehta discussed "mental disability and role of computers" for the programme "Digital Planet" on BBC World Service Radio. The programme was telecast on Monday 26 and Tuesday 27-04-2010. Listen to the programme here Sahara Time, Issue April 24 2010. This joint article "Cognitive Radio: A historic opportunity" by Arun Mehta, Robert Horvitz and Manasi Dash was published under Cover Story: Science and Technology "Cognitive radio technology is the answer to our spectrum shortage, the lowest cost technology to address information poverty in rural areas and a means to catapult India to a telecom technology leader." Read the Article here Arun Mehta Interviewed on "Internet improving lives of persons with disabilities" BBC Hindi, 08 March 2010 for the Internet Superpower Series. Listen the programme here For English translation of the interview click here. Managing and utilizing spectrum more effeciently Feb 27-March 5 2010, volume XLV No.9, jointly written by Arun Mehta and Robert Horvitz, Economic and Political Weekly (EPW). Visit the EPW page Read the article here From laggard to leader, if India goes 'cognitive', 19 Feb 2010, by Arun Mehta and Robert Horvitz, Tehelka Read the article here ICT to empower the differently abeld, 14 Jan 2010, Express Buzz, Thiruvananthapuram "An interactive programme with parents of autistic children and Dr Arun Mehta was organised...." Read the article here
Year 2009	Growing interest in cognitive radio in India, Dec 29, 2009 by Dugie Standeford, PolicyTracker.Read the Article here Visit www.policytracker.com Making Technology Really Work, ITmagz.com, 9 December 2009 The shifting Sands of net debate, 17 Nov. 2009, by, Jonathan Charles, BBCNews "Many autistic children prefer interacting with computers, rather than humans. Computers are more reliable, their reactions are more consistent" Visit the BBC page The ICT disability programme, extended support to CyberMedia for one episode of its eKranti programme which was telecast on DoorDarshan on 27 July 2009 Internet turns 40, Discussion on Samay News Channel, New Delhi (Arun Mehta invited to speak on the show.), 2009 Autism is more widespread, U.S. studies show, but why?, USAToday, 10 May 2009, Visit the USToday Page Reaching out to those with special needs, May 28, 2009 The Hindu, Thiruvanantapuram Arun Mehta invited for Programme on the "text to speech" technology for the disabled on Zee News, 08 April 2009. Empowering differently-abled people with free IT training, ITmagz.com, 8 April 2009 Skid to Learn in Silent Struggle, Hindustan Times Cafe', 2 April 2009 Discussion on the present encryption policy in India on News Channel Zee News. The programme was telecast on 16-02-2009 at 10.00 pm Debate on the issue of encryption Arun Metha on the CNN-IBN News channel on 30 January 2009. The programme was telecast on the same day at 10.00 pm.
2008 and older	ICTs and mental challenges The Geek Syndrome Autism- and its milder cousin Asperger's syndrome is surging among the children of Silicon Valley. Are math-and-tech genes to blame?, WIRED, Year 2004 Visit the WIRED Page When Tech conquers disability, Hindustan Times, 31 October 2008 SKID: Dr. Arun Mehta's Open source Software Innovation to help children with disabilities, educatorslog.in, Year 2008 Hope for the visually handicapped, by Arun Mehta, Sci-Tech World, 19 March 2005.
2008 and older	On Internet Introduction to online activism, November 2001 Spider Promoting the Internet in South Asia, Arun Mehta and Shahid Akhtar, section Internet in South Asia, November 20, 1999 issue of the Economic and political weekly Guarding 'pretty Good privacy IT in the future of South Asia, by Arun Mehta, section Information Technology, DAWN, Pakistan Call for cyber activism, by Radhika Sachdev, Hindustan Times Freaks, Geeks and Wierdos on the Net by Arun Mehta, Financial Express, 23-01-1997 Making Microsoft, Byte by Byte, Book Review of Microsoft Secrets by Arun Mehta, Businessworld, 20 March - 2 April 1996
2008 and older	On Telecommunications Should IP telephony be restricted?, The Economic Times, 11 December 2006 From tortoise to hare: the transformation of Indian telecom, Arun Mehta in India, Issue 2004 With a little bit of intelligence FM radio becomes a big hit, Deccan chronicle, Hyderabad, 3 January 2003 Indoor 802.11lb to be delicensed in India, by Arun Mehta, Feature Article in Spider August 2002 issue A critical look at Indian telecom policy in the '90s, by Arun Mehta, e-publication chowk.com, 11 May 2001 Arun Mehta's interview by Frederick Noronha. Published under the Bytes for All section in Spider, December 2000 Community radio calling: anyone listening?, Frederick Noronha, Humanscape, June 2000 Convergence- A regulatory Headache by Arun Mehta, Appeared as Cover Story in Spider, May 2000 issue Cable Network set to give a facelift to radio broadcasting for rural India, by Frederick Noronha, Financial Express, Bangalore, 14 April 2000 Combining radio with cable and the Internet, by Arun Mehta, VOICES for change Vol.3 No. 3, December 1999. RADIO GA GA by Anjan Mitra and Surajeet Das Gupta, Business Standard Weekend on November 1999. Ringing in the old - Is VSNLs ban on Net Telephony acceptable?, Business India, October 5 - October 18 1998 Floating on sound waves, A short interview in The Review, DAWN, November 25 - December 1, 1999 Radio free usenet, Article by Steve Silberman, BYTE, July1995 'DoT-free campaign goes online', by R Jayshankar, August 3 1994
2008 and older	On Electronic Voting Machines Clean chit to electronic voting machines, The Hindu, 30 May 1990 Dangers of fraud in computer voting, By Arjun Ghosh, The Times of India, 3 November 1989 Voting Machines V.P.Singh sees scope for manipulation, 15 October 1989 JD shows how to tamper voting machines, Indian Express, 15 October 1989 Criminal hijack of democracy feared, The Statesman, 15 October 1989 VP Singh writes to RV, Deccan Herald, 15 October 1989 VP against computerised polls, Times of India, 15 October 1989 Janata dal ko electronic machinon se dhandhali ka shak, janasatta, 15 October 1989 How to rig an Election, The Sunday Observer, 1989

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