By Editor | Religion The one certainty in life, the one appointment which each of us will just have to face, is the one for which we do the least to prepare—death. From the lives and last days of the Buddha, Ramakrishna Paramahamsa, Ramana Maharshi, Gandhiji, Vinoba; from our religious texts; from the teachings of
(Book Review | Cricket 2.0, Inside The T20 Revolution) By John Cheeran Is T20, cricket or an altogether a different game, carved out from the rib cage of Test and ODI cricket? Yes, say Tim Wigmore and Freddie Wilde, considering the 13-year-old evolution of the newbie, in their meticulously researched and brilliantly argued book, Cricket
Book: Chandra Shekhar And The Six Months That Saved India | Author Roderick Matthews By John Cheeran When Chandra Shekhar stepped up to become India’s eighth prime minister on 10 November 1990, he was writing his political obituary. What had sustained the politics of this former Congressman was anti-Congressism, since 1977. Now, he was being
By A Correspondent New Delhi: As the Covid‐19 pandemic is exacting its toll on the global economy, forward‐looking organizations are moving past crisis management and positioning themselves to leap ahead when the worst is over. What should you and your organization be doing now to address today’s unprecedented challenges while laying the foundation needed to
Editor | Technology In his sophomore year of college, Mark Zuckerberg created a simple website to serve as a campus social network. The site caught on like wildfire, and soon students nationwide were on Facebook. Today, Facebook is nearly unrecognizable from Zuckerberg’s first, modest iteration. It has grown into a tech giant, the largest social
Editor | Non-fiction This book provides insights into the country beyond what we already know about it. These include details on the impact of India’s soft power, thanks to Bollywood, and the remnants of Pakistan’s multi-religious past, and how it frittered away advantages of impressive growth in the first three decades of its existence by
Editor | Non-fiction Opportunities are free, abundant, and available to all – including you. Better yet, golden opportunities are like powerful magnets that attract all the resources you need to succeed. People who started with nothing, like Dhirubhai Ambani, Steve Jobs, Jeff Bezos, Sunil Mittal and Bill Gates, all leveraged the power of golden opportunities
Editor | Nonfiction On an average, eleven hours a day for the rest of your life, you’ll either be working or travelling to your workplace. Now imagine being stuck in the wrong job! A study says that 80 per cent of Indians are unhappy with their jobs. Then how can we find a job that
Editor | Non-fiction Safety‘ for women in India is, more often than not, coded as curtailment of autonomy. To be ‘safe’, women are told they must allow themselves to be kept under constant surveillance. Their movement is restricted to specific spaces, often homes and hostels. Extreme levels of control are exercised to confine their mobility.
By John Cheeran Not many young geniuses fulfill their potential. Viswanathan Anand is a are champion who tasted success at a young age and went on to become world chess champion five times in an era when Russian players were still a dominant force. Anand become world junior champion in 1987. At that time I
