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The Device Revolution And The Promise of Power
A recent report by Tecmark shows that we use our smartphones to carry out a staggering 221 tasks every day. Given that a smartphone today doubles up as a camera, music player, ebook reader, television,...
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Hailing from a family of jewellers spanning four generations, I have always believed in delivering on the promises we make to our consumers. Our business philosophy is to provide long-lasting and...
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Pictures: A Glimmer Of Sunshine For Flood-Hit Chitral, Pakistan
The Elaj Trust and its volunteers have had a busy summer helping hospitals better handle the influx of heat stroke patients in Karachi hospitals. But, just as the weather cooled down across the...
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Holy Cancer: How A Cow Saved My Life (Book Excerpt)
My memoir Holy Cancer: How A Cow Saved My Life chronicles my journey after a cancer diagnosis. Given six months to live and no immediate family to support me, I ventured on a path less taken and...
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The Bedtime Trap
The enlightened amongst you would know this already. As for the rest of you, you're probably too tired to pay attention, but here's the thing: parenting is a trap - and one which you set up and then...
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Why I Love Small Airports
I love small airports. I believe they are wonderful creations of God, made solely for the purpose of teaching big airports a thing or two about how airports are meant to be. Small airports are...
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10 Promising Tech Careers For The Future
With the unstoppable march of smartphones and the Internet, IT has been steadily permeating into every part of our lives, redefining how we live and work. With automation, big data, 3D printing,...
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Book Excerpt: Panther
As a cricket scholar at an elite school in Colombo, Prabu Ramanathan, a Tamil orphan, develops a bond with Indika, the hunky heartthrob, that threatens to cross the fine line that transforms the...
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Are Indian E-Commerce Companies Stretched Too Thin?
In India these days there is a start-up fever. From just graduated students to NRIs returning from abroad, everyone is looking to roll up their sleeves and become entrepreneurs. The activity is mainly...
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What MBA Programs Can Do To Grow The Leaders Of Tomorrow
It has been a longstanding myth that leaders are born, and that leadership is inherent only in a fortunate few. Well, myths are meant to be shattered. Time and again, evidence has shown that leadership...
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The Urgent Need For Holistic Surgical Care For A Stronger India
A stream runs through a beautiful village near Mungaoli in Madhya Pradesh. The village's main attraction is the annual cattle fair that brings in farmers from across the region. For the rest of the...
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Are You A Hacker Or A Cracker?
It's always awkward trying to tell your elders where you work. They may know a few big names in the tech industry, but mention a start-up and they'll often draw a blank. So, when you say you work for a...
View ArticleThe 'Other Woman'
Ten celebrity home breakers - who dated or married committed men - screamed the headline. I could not help but open the news piece - if I can call it that. It had names of ten successful and famous...
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How A 13-Year-Old Helped To Innovate Learning In His Classroom And Beyond
Aman Singh is like any other 13-year-old. He loves to spend time with his friends, play an occasional game of cricket and discuss cars with fervour. What sets him apart from most of his peers is the...
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Woman On Top: How India Is Dating Today
The notion of India and Bharat as two separate nations coexisting in the same space is not new. But look closely at our young and how they go about conducting their lives and one learns that the...
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10 'X-Factors' That Could Decide Battle Bihar 2015
Bihar is no stranger to the centre-stage of Indian polity. From the halcyon days of the Independence struggle to the seething era of the JP movement to ultimately the Mandal times, Bihar remained a...
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Why Pakistan Must Learn India's New Way
It's more than clear that India will no longer accept Pakistani leaders' engagement with separatist Hurriyat leaders either directly or indirectly. The line was drawn when proposed foreign secretary...
View ArticleHealthy Oral Hygiene Leads To A Healthy Pregnancy
According to The Journal of the American Dental Association, pregnant women with chronic gum disease are four to seven times more likely to have a premature baby. Pregnancy is a time of great...
View ArticleWe Need More Start-Ups To Hack Public Service Delivery In India
Recently, I returned from Kolkata as a married man. I was out for lunch with my beautiful wife for lunch on Park Street, the tony shopping and leisure district. It rained intensely for 30 minutes, but...
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55 Years On, Mughal-e-Azam Still Casts A Spell
Some of Indian cinema's best achievements in the last few years owe their success to great amounts of computer-generated imagery (CGI). This was not the case in the 1950s, when ambitious movie projects...
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