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Dr. Ritu Arora
“Ahsu, your new walkman, its broken from the side, you just bought it yesterday” cried my uncle, who had borrowed my cousin’s walkman to listen to a song, as we drove down to Nepal. “No Dad, it was broken when we bought it”, said Ashu. My cousin, Ashu, at seventeen, had done what most pe...
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Dr. Ritu Arora
DOES ONE SIZE REALLY FIT ALL ?
My shoe size is 6, and today I belong to the rather long list of women with a 6 shoe size. For a teenager, it was rather large, and I often wondered, ‘What if Cinderella had a shoe size 6?’ The result would’ve been the courtiers coming back to report, “Prince...
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Danielle LaPorte
Tough spot, painful circumstance, official dilemma. A total jam.
“I just don’t know what to do.”
Hmmm. Then what? If you just don’t know what to do, then what are you going to do? Probably nothing. If you declare you don’t know, then you won’t…know. You̵...
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Axee
A Tribute To Michael Jackson
Now that he is gone don’t you miss him?
Desperately?
His trance like music?
His unique rhythm?
His gyrating, levitating, unique dance style?
His soul stirring music!
Michael Joseph Jackson (August 29, 1958 – June 25, 2009) conceptualized, visualized, created and popularized several physical...
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Pallavi Rao
Why We Should Go Within
Language has created the word “loneliness” to express the pain of being alone. And it has created the word “solitude” to express the glory of being alone. Paul J Tillich, The Eternal Now
In today’s fast paced life we all seek peace and happiness. We set material goal...
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Ann Ronan Ph.D.
So What Is Stopping You?
You are a beautiful essence expressing your own unique genius. Yes, I said genius. And no, I don’t mean like Albert Einstein. We each have something that delights us, that we enjoy doing and most times a yearning to share that with others in some way. This essence that wants to manifest itself, ...
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Suresh Subramaniam
A Lesson For Change-Phobics
One of my visits to the beach left me thinking about the term, ‘sea change.’ What exactly is the connection between ‘sea’ and ‘change’? Delving into the dictionary for its meaning, I was able to figure out that it can mean: transformation, a u-turn, reversal, change of heart, etc.
Etymo...
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Dr. Ritu Arora
I could see my father’s image pop out of the scroll as the lawyer was reading my father’s will, “Last will and testament of me, Prakash Arora,”…. …and after that everything went blah, blah-blah, blah-blah. The interesting part came when I heard “ To my darling daughter Ritu, I leav...
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Peter A Hunter
The British Airways Story
Last year, BA reported a sharp rise of operating profit to ￡883 million, which in view of the rising fuel price and their falling market share, seemed to be bucking the downward global trend. This year they reported a loss of ￡401 million. Somewhere between the two, reality probably lies, but w...
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Sucharita RaySuman
Who Taught Me To Live My Dreams
They say you are a fool. I say, “I know.”
They say stay focused. I say, “I am.”
They say then don’t veer off your path. I say, “I don’t.”
They say don’t play games. I walk away.
Every day brings with it a new dream, a new path, a new goal. Then why not f...
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Rajarshi
A Tongue-In-Cheek Look At The Blues
Depression can be fun. You just sit around thinking that you are depressed. You don’t know why. You don’t even bother to find out why. Just the fact that you realize you are depressed kind of makes you happy. And this happiness adds to the feeling of depression. It’s like a wonderf...
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Abhijit Bhaduri
Sona has a degree in Engineering and an MBA in Marketing. She had a plum job as a Brand Manager in a consumer goods company. She quit that to take up singing. That's not all. At 5'8", this MTV Style Icon 2006 trained as a classical singer for 10 years. Her debut video Bolo Na बोलो ना (Tr...
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Suresh Subramaniam
Can You Detect The Early Warning Signs?
During one of my visits to an isolated beach strip off Chennai, I had a chance interaction with a middle aged fisherman mending his nets. We were the only souls on the beach at that time.
Curious, I asked him about the killer tsunami that struck Chennai in December 2004. He vividly described how a...
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Ann Ronan Ph.D.
Many of the women who work with me are shy. And so was I when I first left my “job job” and began networking. When I worked in the university setting, the only networking I did was at conferences where we’d share our curriculum and research findings with others and it didn’t feel like R...
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KR Ravi
Corruption In India And The United States
Here is the headline from a newspaper, the sort of headline that has us wringing our hands in despair: THREATS TO JUDGES, GOVERNMENT LAWYERS SOARING! The report then says that threats to the nation’s judges and government lawyers have sharply increased prompting hundreds to get 24 hour protec...
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Danielle LaPorte
We crave it. We die for it. We try to pay for it. We aspire, we mire, we miss the mark. In the unending, coiling, incessant pursuit of being right and good enough to find love and get love and give love, we forget about the very nature of love itself.
Love gets buried beneath political correctness a...
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Rachana Sharma
Book review: The Fine Print of Life by PS Wasu
What is life? What is the purpose of life? Can we ever solve the mystery of life? The Fine Print of Life neither tries to evolve any theory about it nor does it go into whether these issues are sortable or unsortable. What it does is much more valuable and appreciable: it helps you to find your own ...
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Tickler at large
A Lesson In Detachment
A sage who lived in the jungle was very popular with the masses. The emperor was very curious to know the ways of the sage and invited the wise man to stay in his palace. The emperor wanted to observe the sage.
As soon as the sage came near the palace he said, “Wow, what a beautiful masterpie...
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Axee
Can You Think Your Way To Happiness?
There aren’t many certainties in this life, but three constants that we can count on are:
Our Thoughts
Growth
Death
Thoughts:
Our thoughts are as intangible as ether. Yet, they make us smile or bring frowns to our brow as they emerge from our mind. We need to learn which thoughts to keep and wh...
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Rajesh V
The Moving On Mentality
There is a two-advertisement series which is now being aired for a leading brand of watches. The two commercials each end differently, supposedly to address the respective male and female target consumers. Both versions showcase a scenario of two people becoming intimate and then what happens ther...
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KR Ravi
Counterintuitive Thinking And Problem Solving
I once visited a friend of mine for an evening of music, drinks and food. As he poured me a mug of my favourite poison, beer, he requested his ten year old son to join in and asked him what he would like—beer,whisky or rum. I was taken aback—how could a fond father actually invite his minor s...
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Ann Ronan Ph.D.
Speaking Your Way To $uccess
When I do workshops on marketing and mention that speaking is one of the most effective strategies for building a list of contacts who can’t wait to buy from them, most people in the audience look at me with that “no way in hell am I gonna do that” look.
What is it about speaking that makes it...
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Abhijit Bhaduri
Hindustani Classical music was traditionally passed down from the maestro to the disciple. This tradition known as the guru-shishya parampara helped nurture some of the greatest artistes. "Baba" Allauddin Khan (1862-1972) court musician of the princely state of Maihar, was the guru whose disciples t...
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D Muralidharan
There is a link between having your own Individual Development Plan (IDP) and de-stressing Life...
Most of us go through phases in life –in the multiple facets of life : be it studies, career, family, society and so on – where there is so much time filled and enervating action; but, despite all this, there is a sense of void. And this sense of void turns into frustration and anger, to the poi...
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Pallavi Rao
There are times in life when for no particular reason, you’re feeling lower than a snake’s belly you know, a little on the weepy side, kind of listless, thinking a big chunk of chocolate would lift your spirits right up. Sometimes, without much effort, the weather changes, the mood ...
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Danielle LaPorte
Being true to yourself is not always easy.
For fear of not being accepted, we tailor our personality, mince our words, and carve our opinions to fit in. It takes courage to be real – and it takes stamina because if you want the best out of life, it will demand the best of you time and time again.
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PK
Greeting My Child.
Today I can emphatically say that I am angry. What is gone wrong with adults? The insensitivity shown towards my child or for that matter other children simply makes me want to strangle them; don’t be fooled my exterior that is smiling benevolently. What has got my blood boil...
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KR Ravi
The Tongue-Brain Connection
For several decades, scholars and researchers have been telling us that the structure of languages shapes human thought. Language habits contribute to conflict, misunderstanding and even psychological maladjustment. Alfred Korzybski is one such scholar. He asserted that there is no ‘universal tru...
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Guest Tickler
Stumbling Into The Light
(Note: This post is in 3 parts. Click here for parts 1 and 2. The author has chosen not to reveal her identity.)
There is something beautiful about all scars of whatever nature. A scar means the hurt is over, the wound is closed, healed and done with.
When you’ve finally hit the lowest point, ...
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The Wall Street Journal sent out a memo to its staffers some time back outlining rules around the use of social media like Facebook, Twitter etc. For instance the journalists now need to take approval of editors before "friending" a confidential source on Facebook or Twitter. These ground rules shou... 
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