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Tales from Travel
Sorry folks – been a really long time since I wrote anything. Call it laziness, or call it the effects of marriage.. But, now, I hope to get back to my business and update regularly..After I joined my...
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Book Review: The Kite Runner by Khalid Hosseini
-Akshay RanganathLast week, I'd been to Jayanagar and there was some sort of a basement book exhibition. In there I saw this book, "The Kite Runner". For some reason, I had this vague feeling that I'd...
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Know you have a spouse!
Arranged Marriage Blues – Part 6-Akshay RanganathWell, this sounds clichéd. Yet, I never realized how important this quality is for a better married life. Unfortunately, this is a topic that will have...
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Mahatma, Freedom of Speech and India Chauvinism
On the 10th of Aug, the Supreme Court of India rejected a public interest litigation that argued that every Indian must respect the Mahatma. (See Article) It was heartening to note the court took the...
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Quotes: A Better India, A Better World - NR Narayana Murthy
- Akshay RanganathGeneral QuotesValuable advice can sometimes crom from an unexpected source, and chance events can sometimes open new doors (p4)'You cannot build reputation on what you are going to...
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Quotes: A better India, A better Wolrd - N. R. Narayana Murthy
Some of the best quotes from N.R. Narayana Murthy's book, 'A better India, a better World':Buy the book, India OnlyI believe that the only unchanging attributes of a successful corporation will be...
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Book Review: Two States by Chetan Bhagat
-Akshay RanganathLast week, I ordered the book "Two States" from Rediff Books. Amazingly swift, they delivered it to me in two days. And I managed to finish the book in about the same time :-)This...
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Arranging Groom - How much is enough?
-Akshay RanganathSo this is the story of greed. Or rather the limitless liking for money - and how indignified a person can get in his bottomless search for financial gratification.A family friend of...
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Informed on IT
-Akshay RanganathThe other day, we (wife and myself) were travelling from Bangalore to Mysore by train. It was a typical weekend morning journey - train overflowing, children bawling and grown-ups...
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Visit to Singapore
Day 1 - Jan 9th, 2010We visited the Sentosa. We started from the train ride across the sea via a train ride from the Vivo City rail.First we visited the Merlion. Merlion is the symbol of Singapore...
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Quotes: Free - The Future of Radical Price by Chris Anderson
Some of the best quotes from the book. Use the follow below for Harvard style reference.Anderson, C. (2009) Free – The Future of Radical Price. London: Random House-Akshay RanganathSpecialty of...
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Old classmate and rants on Social media
Today, out of the blue, a class mate of mine pinged me on Google Chat. As the normal chatters, we started with the mundane stuff of 'howz wrk' and so on. Conversation then moved to stuff about 'how is...
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Quotes: Brida by Paulo Coelho
Here are some of the best quotes from the book, 'Brida' by Paulo Coelho.She had met people who had lost the glow of being alive because they could no longer fight against loneliness and had ended up...
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Future of eCommerce - seminar by Brian Valentine SVP, eCommerce Platfom at...
Yesterda, (May 28, 2010) Amazon hosted a seminar title 'Future of eCommerce' presented by Brian Valentine, SVP of eCommerce Platform (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brian_Valentine). The program was...
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Advance Delivery
Book Review: Delivering Happiness – A Path to Profits, Passion And Purpose by Tony Hsieh-Akshay RanganathOn June 7th, the book 'Deliververing Happiness – A Path to Profits, Passion and Purpose' written...
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Book Quotes: Delivering Happiness by Tony Heish
Some of the best quotes from the book, "Delivering Happiness - A Path to Profits, Passion and Purpose" by Tony Hsieh.For those referencing it, you can use:Hsieh, T. (2010) Delivering Happiness: A Path...
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Arranging House
A Primer to keep the house clean for married couple-Akshay Ranganath The bane of nuclear families is that the onus of keeping the house clean falls entirely on the members of humanity residing in the...
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Book Review: Don't Make Me Think
Don't Make Me Think is a book on usability by Steve Krug. It has on all time favorite list of many usability experts to a long time now. However, the book was not available in paperback Indian edition...
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Book Review: John Grisham, The Street Lawyer
Last week, we had the Jan 26th holiday and I thought of spending it by indulding it by reading 'The Street Lawyer', a novel by one of my favorite author Joh Grisham.The story is about a big shot law...
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Book Review: Inside Wikileaks by Daniel Domscheit-Berg
Last week, a friend of mine happened to lend me the book "Inside Wikileaks: My Time with Julian Assange at the World's Most Dangerous Website". It is written by a person who worked very closely with...
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Book Review: India After Gandhi by Ramachandra Guha
I used to browse Flipkart weekly and kept noticing the book, "India After Gandhi" for quite a few months. For some reason, I thought that this was a boring tome on history and scholarly book talking...
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Book Review: Myth=Mithya by Devdutt Pattanaik
-Akshay RanganathI keep looking through the top sellers list on Flipkart and almost always notived the book 'Myth = Mithya: A Handbook Of Hindu Mythology' by Devdutt Pattanaik. I'd seen his video on...
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Arranged Marriage Blues 6 - Three Years of Marriage
It feels just like yesterday that we started the search for a bride and here we are - celebrating our third wedding anniversay already! Banal it may sound but, time just seems to fly!After marriage,...
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Quotes from The Difficulty of Being Good by Gurcharan Das
Some of the best quotes from the book, 'The Difficulty of Being Good. On the subtle art of Dharma' by Gurcharan Das.Hinduism is not a 'religion' in the usual sense. It is a civilization based on a...
View ArticleTips from "Understanding Exposure" by Bryan Peterson
I read the book "Understanding Exposure" by Bryan Peterson. By far, one of the best books that I've ever read, this book clearly and concisely explains the concept of digital photography. It is replete...
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