BOOKS
Book Extract: Pattern Breakers
There are plenty of case studies and tips to glean from Pattern Breakers. Not all of them are easy to encapsulate here. The introduction does a fair job to give some insights in the chapters but it is better if you read the book for yourself.
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Book Extract: Our Next Reality
In Our Next Reality, two industry veterans provide a data-driven debate on whether the new world we're creating will be a technological utopia or an AI-powered dystopia and give guidance on how to aim for the best future we can.
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Book Extract — Golwalkar: The Myth Behind the Man, the Man Behind the Machine
Golwalkar’s ideological influence was enormous—and it did not end with his death.
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Book Extract: Shah Rukh Khan - Legend, Icon, Star
Shah Rukh Khan: Legend, Icon, Star includes first hand fan accounts and Mohar Basu's insights and commentary on the phenomena that is SRK.
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Book Extract — Ratan Tata: A Life
Ratan Tata: A Life is a traditional biography, that does the childhood to adulthood trajectory in detail, tracking Ratan Tata’s years as immaculately as is feasible.
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Book Extract — Supremacy: AI, ChatGPT and the Race That Will Change the World
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Book Extract: Ahimsa
2024 is being commemorated as the centenary of the discovery of Harappa/Indus Valley Civilization. To coincide with this landmark moment in India’s history, Devdutt Pattnaik chose to highlight a few aspects of the civilization accompanied by some of his illustrations.
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1st National Mental Health Festival - by NIMHANS, NCBS, Rohini Nilekani Philanthropies - starts in Bengaluru today
Mental health in India: The three-day festival will begin with a meeting of brain scientists, mental health researchers and students from India and abroad, at the National Centre for Biological Sciences (NCBS).
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Book Extract: Pathfinders
JL Collins' third book, Pathfinders, reads like the essays published often in Readers Digest. Easy to read, accessible, communicated complicated ideas and situations simplistically, and most importantly, made readers think about financial literacy.
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Book Extract: Economics Nobel winners Daron Acemoglu & Simon Johnson's 'Power and Progress'
Read the entire prologue to the incredibly fascinating book, 'Power and Progress: Our Thousand-Year Struggle Over Technology and Prosperity', penned by 2024 Economics Nobel laureates Daron Acemoglu & Simon Johnson.
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Fraudster Tales: History’s Greatest Criminals and Their Catastrophic Crimes
Fraudsters Tales is a wonderful collection of profiles, told magnificently by Vijay Narayan Govind. He achieves the incredible balance between telling a gripping story whilst packing it with financial details of the crimes committed.
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Hallyu again? 1st Korean to get Nobel Prize in Literature, Han Kang took the world by storm with The Vegetarian
Nobel Prize in Literature: Han Kang, author of the 2016 International Booker Prize winner 'The Vegetarian', is only the 9th Asian to win the Literature Nobel. The first was Rabindranath Tagore in 1913.
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Where did Ratan Tata go to school, and more interesting facts about Ratan Tata's family, life and work
Ratan Tata was closer to JRD Tata than to his father Naval Tata. And he was particularly fond of his grandmother, Lady Navajbai, though he hated the Rolls-Royce she sent to pick him up from school - some interesting facts about Ratan Tata's life and work.
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Ratan Tata tribute: When Tata Finance kept a helicopter on standby to return investors' money
R. Gopalakrishnan and Harish Bhat on how Ratan Tata pulled Tata Finance back from the brink of insolvency in 2001; rallying resources as well as Rs 615 crore in corporate guarantees from Tata Sons and its sister company Tata Industries.
ENTERTAINMENT
World Mental Health Day 2024: 7 compelling films to watch and where to watch them
World Mental Health Day is observed globally on October 10 every year. Here is a list of films that you can watch on the day that explore myriad forms of mental health disorders through a humane lens.
BUSINESS
BEL bags additional orders worth over Rs 500 crore, stock in focus
BEL’s order book has surged to Rs 7,689 crore this fiscal, driven by new contracts, with a target of Rs 25,000 crore in FY25 as international brokerages remain bullish on the stock.
LIFESTYLE
Mangifera Indica: A Biography of the Mango
Mangifera Indica is Sopan Joshi's first nonfiction book in English. It is an absolutely fascinating account of the king of fruits intertwined with a bit of a memoir.
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The Trolls of Wall Street: How the outcasts and insurgents are hacking the markets
The Trolls of Wall Street. How the Outcasts and Insurgents Are Hacking the Markets is a fascinating account into the events and the people that led to the events of 27 January 2021, when due to the GameStop short squeeze, some US firms and short sellers suffered losses.
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Bollywood inspiration: Indian cricketer Kiran Navgire has seen 'Bhaag Milkha Bhaag' 100 times
When she's not hitting sixes, cricketer Kiran Prabhu Navgire's favourite things to do include weight-training and listening to Bollywood movie song 'Bhaag Milkha'.
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Rohan Murty's Murty Classical Library of India to turn 10, celebrate with release of Ten Indian Classics
10th anniversary: The Murty Classical Library of India is slated to launch an anthology of ghazals, devotional songs, and stories translated from Hindi, Kannada, Pali, Panjabi, Persian, Sanskrit, Telugu, and Urdu, on October 18.
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World Physiotherapy Day 2024: Office exercises & more tips to reduce lower back pain
Lower back pain is the theme of World Physiotherapy Day 2024. From ergonomic office set up (including how to position dual monitors), to setting reminders for regular movement and stretches like seated calf pumps, here's what you can do to prevent or reduce back pain.
BUSINESS
SpiceJet stock jumps 5% as board to consider fundraising via QIP on July 23
SpiceJet said the company will hold a board meeting on July 23 to consider raising fresh capital through qualified institutional placement (QIP) basis.
ENTERTAINMENT
New Nawazuddin Siddiqui movie releasing on OTT is set in Rautu Ki Beli, a sleepy village in Uttarakhand
Friday OTT Release (June 28, 2024): 'Rautu Ka Raaz' starring Nawazuddin Siddiqui is releasing direct-to-digital on Zee5 on June 28. The film is set in Rautu Ki Beli in Tehri, Uttarakhand.
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Netflix K-drama The Atypical Family ending explained: Bok Gwi-ju saves Do Da-hae from the fire, but can he return to his super family?
The Atypical Family is a Korean drama about a family of supers who relearn to cherish their superpowers after meeting a con artist-turned-family member. It starts slow but ends on a bang.
