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India Art Fair director Jaya Asokan: To show collectible design seemed like a natural progression
What to expect at the India Art Fair 2024, the focus on collectible design that is both functional and a piece of art, the latest BMW art car, how to get started if you're thinking about becoming an art collector and more from India Art Fair director Jaya Asokan.
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An Uncommon Love: The Early Life of Sudha and Narayana Murthy book review
Read this book to know about Sudha Murty and Narayan Murthy's formative years, their courtship years and early marriage. Read this also, for an interesting take on how biographies can break away from linear storytelling to resemble a movie reel.
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Demand for AI specialists is predicted to rise by 40 percent over 5 years: IBM's Sriram Raghavan
IBM Research AI Vice President Sriram Raghavan on using AI for climate solutions and weather forecasts, the AI Alliance, sustainable AI and developing AI talent.
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Ruskin Bond: Build castles in the air... then put foundations under them
If AI were around when he was younger, Ruskin Bond says it might have helped him to score better marks in maths and physics. And perhaps later in life, to create plots for his stories.
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Twinkle Khanna: I've been ready for AI for 30 years
Twinkle Khanna on her latest book 'Welcome to Paradise', writing humour, her love of science fiction, and creating in the age of AI.
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We're in stage 2 of the current bull market: Stellar Wealth Partners India Fund's Gautam Baid
How to survive a bear market, and common mistakes investors make when the going is good.
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'Mysteries are being told in voices of people who don't fit stock image of Hollywood police detective'
Author of the Perveen Mistry books Sujata Massey on writing mysteries set in 1920s Mumbai, drawing inspiration from Cornelia Sorabji - India's first practising woman lawyer, and support for women writing crime fiction.
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Stanford Business School Lecturer Matt Abrahams: You have to prepare to be spontaneous
Matt Abrahams, organizational behaviour lecturer at the Stanford Graduate School of Business, on the problem with aiming for perfection and other hurdles to effective communication, and how to manage or overcome them in spontaneous conversations.
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Zomato CEO Deepinder Goyal: Culture is the operating system of any organisation
Zomato founder CEO Deepinder Goyal says he lives and breathes by two principles: “Only the paranoid survive” and “All growth comes from discomfort”.
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Crime fiction writer Vish Dhamija: The competition is for people’s time and attention
Vish Dhamija on his book Deja Karma, the rise of crime fiction in India and abroad, Abundantia Entertainment's OTT adaptation of his Rita Ferreira series and reading for pleasure in the age of OTT,
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Morning Stars | For singer Hariharan, the body is his instrument - and there's no excuse for missing his morning walk
Padma Shri Hariharan on what sets him up for a good start to the day - from being woken up by his 10-year-old German Shepherd Mishti to filter coffee and a 40-minute walk.
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Amitabh Kant: Bringing down the cost of our logistics to globally competitive levels will be a big milestone
India's G20 Sherpa Amitabh Kant on his latest book Made in India, defining start-ups in a way that would protect them from India's regulatory cholesterol in 2015, the next milestones for India and talking with OpenAI CEO Sam Altman about the potential of artificial intelligence.
EDUCATION
'AI will be an integral part of curriculum and pedagogy'
"The world is today full of opportunities and it is impossible to predict what will be best path to those opportunities. You just need to focus on learning what you enjoy and try your hand at as many things you can."
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International Museum Expo 2023 | 3 experiences to look forward to
Prime Minister Narendra Modi will inaugurate the three-day International Museum Expo 2023 at Pragati Maidan, on the morning of May 18, 2023.
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Musician Anirudh Varma: Indian Classical should reach audiences to the extent that film music has
"The idea was to explore traditional compositions from a contemporary perspective, at the same time not moving away from the ‘Raga’ and its emotional quality."
HEALTH-AND-FITNESS
Morning Stars | Milind Soman: No exercise like yoga for minimum effort, maximum impact
Actor Milind Soman on his morning routine, running for fun, and staying fit in your 50s.
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HCL co-founder Ajai Chowdhry: India could replace China as product factory of the world
Ajai Chowdhry on his book 'Just Aspire', what breaks a startup, why the next big thing in tech will be in hardware and how India is poised to take over as the design and product factory of the world.
HEALTH-AND-FITNESS
Fit to Lead | Byju's cofounder Divya Gokulnath: You can't delegate workouts. It's the same with leadership
Divya Gokulnath on growing up in a family where sports was integrated into everyone's routine, her approach to wellbeing and the importance of being seen as a woman leader.
BUSINESS
'Humble leadership is by no means weak and meek': PV Ramana Murthy
"Humility builds the tenacity to skillfully tackle different situations and stakeholders"
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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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"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.
