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Book Review: Pauranik Kahaniyan

‘Pauranik Kahaniyan’ (in Hindi)
Gita Press, Gorakhpur
Pages 128
[ISBN 81-293-1400-2] 
The Puranas (पुराण) are part of the Hindu sacred texts. These are ancient compilations; the great sage Vyasa is considered the original compiler of the Puranas, though it is largely believed that the texts have been modified or added all through the history of India. These are compilations [...]


Book Review: A Writer’s People by VS Naipaul

‘A Writer’s People: Ways of Looking and Feeling’
By: V. S. Naipaul
Picador
ISBN: 978-0-330-48524-1 
The winner of Nobel Prize in Literature, 2001, VS Naipaul was born in Trinidad in 1932. He went on to England in 1950 on a scholarship and studied at University College, Oxford. After his college, he started writing, as a passion and profession. [...]


Book Review: Practicing the Power of Now by Eckhart Tolle

‘Practicing the Power of Now: essential teachings, meditations and exercises from The Power of Now’
By: Eckhart Tolle
Yogi Impressions
ISBN: 81-901059-7-3 
Eckhart Tolle is a Canadian (born in Germany as Ulrich Tolle, in 1948) spiritual teacher and bestselling author. He published his first book “The Power of Now” in 1997 which reached the New York Times Best [...]


Challenges in Sharing Knowledge

Recently I published an article at the knowledge portal of our company. As a custom, I was suggested by colleagues to post an email to our group, announcing and informing them about the document. When I sent the email, I also marked a copy to a very senior person who was practice-head at our location. [...]


The Role of Social Networking Sites in our Life

Now a day that I am getting busier than ever, I am getting less time for doing two things in particular: spend time on social networking sites, and to read articles which provide me good food-for-thoughts. I am still spending quality time with my near and dear ones, and I do read books regularly; and [...]


Good Housekeeping and Problem Solving

I used to go to my office on the company’s shuttle-bus service (meant to run in-between two office-campuses). That morning, the bus had to wait at the main gates till the queue of cars cleared out from the security check. I was sitting near a window and my eyes wandered out lazily. Suddenly I observed [...]


Book Club in my Company

Being an IT company gives it many advantages. The prime one is in how the company can use technology to enhance the experience of all its stakeholders including its employees. I have the privilege of being part of an IT organization which is one of the highly respected companies of the world. Recently I noticed [...]