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Wednesday, January 11, 2012

Ben-Hur's lesson for life: Neither a Messala nor a hypocrite be

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Ben-Hur was a rage in India in the 60's when big budget classics were made in Hollywood. I watched it in Tanjore in the 90's when a...
Wednesday, December 14, 2011

Pausch's 'Last Lecture'and Jobs's biography: Death and Memoirs

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Before Steve Jobs there was Randy Pausch . Pausch and Jobs share eerie coincidences and yet both are very different persons. Carnegie Mellon...
Sunday, December 4, 2011

Caldecott, Newbery Prizes and Children's Books

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America has a very deep intellectual culture that is best epitomized by the plethora of prizes awarded in so many fields, especially books. ...
Sunday, November 27, 2011

As the Tsar went so goes Trotsky

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Not much in this world is as veritable treasure of contradictions, cruelties, ironies and stories as USSR and communism. During my usual tre...
Wednesday, November 23, 2011

Is Steve Jobs A Model C.E.O.? Level 5 Leadership.

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Steve Jobs remains the flavor more than a month after his passing. A manager in a Fortune 500 firm gifted a copy of Steve Jobs's eponymo...
Tuesday, November 8, 2011

Friedman's India Kool-Aid

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I first came across Thomas Friedman in 2001 when I read “The Lexus and The Olive Tree”, an excellent primer for understanding globalization...
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Sunday, November 6, 2011

IBM Shatters The Glass Ceiling

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On October 25th Virginia Rometty, 60, was chosen to be the CEO of IBM. She is the first woman CEO of IBM in its 100 year history. It came sh...