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How's that, Madam? : Kaushik Deka - Design Today Blogs
Next week, the Assam Government will complete one year in office. Preparation is on full swing to publicize the achievements of the government in last one year. The people in power are well aware that public memory is short and needs constant reminders. Of course, it’s tough to recall things that one doesn’t practically experience. Development may be one of them.Success can have
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Stephen Hawking's scary universe : Damayanti Datta - Headlines Today Blogs
What do you do when the foremost scientist of the day says something that you have always rubbished?I met Stephen Hawking one summer afternoon in 1992. A friend of mine was his student and had arranged for the meeting at the DAMTP—that hotbed of theoretical physics and applied mathematics in Cambridge where super-competitive students and prima-donna teachers feast on numbers. He had told me that Hawking was “friendly and warm” but didn’t suffer fools gladly.
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Mah Satyam, TechM merger 'Getting there' : E Kumar Sharma - Headlines Today Blogs
Shortly after Mahindra Satyam announced its third quarter results, CEO CP Gurnani told Business Today that the formal integration between Mahindra Satyam (the erstwhile Satyam Computer) and TechMahindra had yet to begin, and that the companies had only held "go to market" and synergy meetings to make sure each other’s service offerings are leveraged.
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Mah Satyam, TechM merger 'Getting there' : E Kumar Sharma - Wonder Woman Blogs
Shortly after Mahindra Satyam announced its third quarter results, CEO CP Gurnani told Business Today that the formal integration between Mahindra Satyam (the erstwhile Satyam Computer) and TechMahindra had yet to begin, and that the companies had only held "go to market" and synergy meetings to make sure each other’s service offerings are leveraged.
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Spare the Rod : Damayanti Datta - Wonder Woman Blogs
I often ask a lot of parents how they discipline their children. And the answers are remarkably similar: “We never hit him/ her. We reason…try to explain. Kids these days are different. They are very sharp, you know. You can’t treat them like we were...”
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What to Learn at IIM : Kaveree Bamzai - Wonder Woman Blogs
If Chetan Bhagat has proved one thing it is this. He is as good at marketing as he is at writing. In a recent blog of his he wrote about Aamir Khan, "I am really inspired by his marketing. In fact, there is a lesson for a lot of Indian marketing companies in the way Aamir does the marketing of his films". Well, I think Khan and the marketing companies could learn a thing or two from Bhagat about how to use new media. From his blog to twitter, Bhagat managed to rally a lot of support fr
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The fastest I ever went in a car : Kushan Mitra - à¤à¤ तठबà¥âलà¥à¤à¥âस
“What is the fastest you have ever gone in a car?”On the face of it, this might seem like a rather innocuous question, but one that few people can answer honestly. And believe me, for car fanatic males, this is like asking “How big is yours?” Even if someone does honestly answer that they have driven a car at some obscene speeds where the hand of the speedometer points towards the numbers of the lower right corner; they would have likely broken several laws.
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Letting them be : Kaveree Bamzai - Oye FM Blogs
When I was reading Nasreen Munni Kabir's wonderful new book on Lata Mangeshkar, the one thing that struck me about it was the way Lata described her childhood. She would sit on a tyre and force her friends to push her up and down, pick mangoes from trees, carry a stick and terrorise the neighbourhood and generally make a thorough nuisance of herself. Well, she turned out okay.
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