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Why we should not criticise the Media for “negative” news
No, I am not from the journo fraternity. The chances are you would not continue reading this piece for two reasons: The topic does not sound sensational and Your mind is telling you either you know the answer or you don’t need to know it. That pretty much sums it up. I can afford to…
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Disparaging the compassion of Mother Teresa
Acquiring greatness is a long and arduous journey. A journey for which acquiring greatness may not be a goal at all. People have devoted their entire lives to various causes and still remain unknown or less known. I feel disturbed about two trends which seem to be quite prevalent today. One, greatness is being equated…
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How to Write a Statement of purpose (S.O.P.)
With a global surge in the inclination for higher education, there has been a rise in the number of applicants for various post graduate and doctoral programs. But it has been more so in the field of management especially for MBA. This has made selection process quite a challenging task for the top universities and…
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Who is Kailash Satyarthi? My salute to the Nobel Peace Prize winner.
Even as a man from India with a pressing social cause is crowned with the world’s most prestigious recognition – the Nobel Peace prize 2014, I as a common Indian am going through a strange mix of pride and humiliation. I am proud that a country of millions of people with thousands of problems has…
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Understanding the Villain – III (Concluding part)
Why is it necessary to understand the villain? Or as I ended the last post “where do we find villains apart from the fiction and movies?” Before I answer this I would like to sum up in one line the essay so far. The villain is characterised by some indomitable and creative spirit which is…
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Why Love Is a Learned Language
Originally posted on THE KNOWLEDGE DOME: An amazing article on one of the most hyped and the least understood emotion: Love Excerpt: “Citing famous cases, both folkloric and factual, of human children raised by animals outside civilization, Buscaglia notes that just like we “learn” to be human, we also learn to love. He points to…
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Understanding the Villain – Part II
In the previous post I tried to outline the origin and emergence of the villain. In this post I shall answer the question raised in the last post: But what are the oddities that breed the villain and make some cross the second check? There can be three possible scenarios: 1. Physical Anomaly One of…
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Understanding the Villain – Part I
The world hates the villain, probably much more than it loves the hero. I often wonder about, where do villains come from? How does a person become a villain? Are villains any good to the society? And in this series of posts I try to answer these questions. Let me first begin with my definition…
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A Better World!
If all the men in this world asked the women, important in their lives, the question “do you believe that I truly respect you?” , and if all the women answered “yes I do”….this world would be a better place to live.
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Claiming an Education: Adrienne Rich’s Spectacular 1977 Commencement Address
Originally posted on THE KNOWLEDGE DOME: This is a wonderfully enlightening talk. Excerpt: ” The first thing I want to say to you who are students, is that you cannot afford to think of being here to receive an education: you will do much better to think of being here to claim one. One of the…