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Book review: Why Salman Rushdie's Victory City is the perfect historical fiction for our time
Rewriting history, religious bias, gender bias - Rushdie seems to be responding to all of these prompts in Victory City.
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Vinoy Thomas: In Malayalam literature, stand-ins for Kerala ethos are giving way to pluralism
An earlier short story by Vinoy Thomas, "Kaligeminarile Kuttavalikal", became the basis for Lijo Jose Pellissery's film Churuli.
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Lakshmi vs Kubera: India's wisely wealthy think beyond wealth creation
In 'Wise Wealth', Rajmohan Krishnan draws on interviews with 35 super wealthy Indians to explain.
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Disaster management expert Anshu Sharma: 'For us the rooftop is a hidden labelled data set'
An AI-powered model called Sunny Lives breaks down disaster warnings from a general area to the individual home level. So far, the program has been piloted in 20 locations in India.
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"Sensitisation and communication initiatives, rather than activism, is the way forward": Anita Bhogle
Anita Bhogle, author of 'Equal, Yet Different', on career catalysts for women.
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Is there such a thing as an Indian way of doing business?
Harvard Business School professors Geoffrey Jones and Tarun Khanna say yes, and no.
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Women's Day 2022: 17, and standing up to gender imbalance in the sciences
"You can't be what you can't see. So, the female role models in science, in my opinion, will be really influential for the young girls and teach them that you do belong in the field of science." - Ilina Singh.
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Pullela Gopichand: The match is like a thriller; the real movie is actually the preparation
As an elite athlete, "there's a certain amount of gut feel, there's some amount of risk which you need to be okay to take. I think that's the same thing with startups."
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Chip Heath and Karla Starr: Not even accountants get the million/billion seconds comparison right
"If you get a letter in India from the USA by regular mail, it was sent about a million seconds ago. But a billion seconds ago, Sachin Tendulkar had just made his cricket debut."
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Mridula Ramesh: "Business leaders exist on a spectrum on 'water/climate awareness'"
A few business leaders “get” it and are proactive in managing their exposure, some see it as a cost of doing business, and the rest don’t get it - a singularly foolish thing to do in a water-scare country which is rapidly heating up.
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The violence in 'Squid Game' and 'My Name' is intense but never gratuitous
'Squid Game' is still the No. 1 show on Netflix in India more than a month after it dropped, and 'My Name' is at No. 6.
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"There's an alarming lack of scholarship on Savarkar": author Vikram Sampath
Vikram Sampath on the research he did for his two-part biography of Vinayak Damodar Savarkar, its reception, and some of Veer Savarkar’s key ideas.
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Richard H. Thaler: "HR departments are the ones that should be reading 'Nudge'"
Nobel laureate Richard H. Thaler on 'Nudge': The Final Edition, Indian examples of nudge versus sludge, and how he thought only his wife and children would read the book when it came out in 2008.
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Akash Kapur: "We are all searchers, in our own way...we all envision alternative lives"
"Faith and spiritual belief are complicated phenomena; while we often focus on the dogmas of faith, we should also be mindful of the dogmas of rationalism." - Kapur.
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Do your homework, know what you need from a negotiation: Major General Rajpal Punia
"When you are in a situation where you feel that you have lost everything, that’s when you feel that things can only improve from here, whatever you do, and that's what I did. I adapted many times."
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Ronnie Screwvala: 'I can’t twiddle my thumbs with the growth ambitions that we have'
"The overriding aspect (to take away from the book) is: give thinking and respect to soft skills... understand that without that balance (of expertise and soft skills), you won’t be able to torpedo yourself in the world that is going to be with us."
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Amazon Prime Day Show 2021 with Billie Eilish, H.E.R. and Kid Cudi is evidence of a growing trend in OTT performances
Streamed performances don't have to piggyback on the achievements of live shows in the pre-Covid world, but can make their own way.
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'I was obsessed with these Tata stories as I wrote them': Harish Bhat
Harish Bhat's first book 'Tata Log' looked into eight modern stories of the Tata Group. His latest book is a compendium of 40 stories that go back to the time of Jamsetji Tata, Sir Dorabji Tata and his wife Meherbai, and J.R.D. Tata.
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Future of work: Work-from-anywhere is here to stay. But that can't be all
Google chief Sundar Pichai may have formalised some of the steps, but Indian corporates have already been thinking about talent retention and management in the post-pandemic world.
