As India remembered the Father of the Nation, Mahatma Gandhi, on 2 October this year, two technology giants – Microsoft and Google – headed by two successful people of Indian origin, were battling it out in federal court in Washington DC as part of the first antitrust trial in the internet era initiated by the United States Justice Department (against Google).

Satya Nadella, the CEO of Microsoft, testified quite vehemently against Google. The big tech business rivalry that was on display went beyond Nadella and Sundar Pichai's Indian bonhomie, premised on the ever-increasing tentacles of technology and its business dynamics.