NYT columnist Thoms L Friedman in his best selling work The Lexus and The Olive Tree remarked
While the defining measurement of the Cold War was weight - particularly the throw weight of missiles - the defining measurement of the globalization system is speed - speed of commerce, travel, communication and innovation. The Cold War was [...]
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Posted in Personal, thoughts on August 31, 2006 | No Comments »
Last two months have been quite unusual for me, yes, I could not finish even a single book in these two months. Normally I could have read at least two books comfortably. I used to manage three-four books per month in my IIFM days.
I picked up Beloved, (e-book) story of a black slave woman, from [...]
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Being simple and humane is not an easy task these days, you are always taking the risk of being misunderstood. Most of the people always doubt some ulterior motive behind every act which seems to be aimed towards making someone happy. Virtues like simplicity and kindness are seen as garbs behind which ambitions, ego, rapacity etc. prosper or as [...]
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Posted in Personal, thoughts on August 15, 2006 | No Comments »
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I love coffee and just found some reasons to love it more. Research results have proved that
Caffeine relieves tesnion headaches by cosntricting dilated blood vessels, the surce of the pain. (Though i am wondering why they spent money on research to find this fact, would have asked me or any fellow coffee lover… 
Coffee containes [...]
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Posted in thoughts on August 15, 2006 | 5 Comments »
This post Youth and Those made me think whether I am mature enough. My mom has always been saying that grow up..grow up.
When discussing the plight of teenagers with adults, i’m often chastised for viewing teens as mature humans capable of making reasonable decisions. All too often, people point to all that psychological research that [...]
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Posted in africa, thoughts on August 4, 2006 | 3 Comments »
Everyday, when my car stops at red light, 3-4 small children start hovering around my car, spreading thier little palms, and invariably I give them 100 cfa (African Currency) to each of them. It has become a routine for me. Yesterday I asked my driver to get change for 1000 Cfa bill,and he gave me [...]
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Meditation seems to be the new ‘in’ thing. Everybody is doing it, it has not became a tool for inner peace but for outer show off. We try to show off our Teacher, you want the teacher, who constantly appears on cover of leading magazines, charges 500 USD per hour. You try to show off [...]
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Posted in Concern, thoughts on June 4, 2006 | 1 Comment »
Few years ago, I cam across an article in Life Positive a thought provoking interview of Satish Kumar, a person talking about environment, ecology, holistic living. The interview made me to look for some more info on Satish Kumar and his works. An easy search on google gave me enough about this amazing personality. Since [...]
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There have been very few books on writing, or for wannabe writers, as a lot of people belive that writers (i mean good writes) are born and not made. In search of some good books on writing I got my hand on SK On Writing by Stephen King. No, he is not talking about how [...]
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There have been a lot of occassions when this phrase has taken form of extolment for someones help and cooperation. But for me, this adage reminds me of ‘Google’. Ya, when I entered into the b-school, the first thing i realized that to survive there you have to first have to get a crash course [...]
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