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| The Misguided Search for Excellence | |
| For a word that has its origins in 14th century Anglo-French, “excellence” has done very well. One can hardly ever attend a meeting of top policy makers in business or education or science without somebody or the other raising the question, “Are we striving enough to achieve excellence in our field?” For policy makers, “excellence” is one of those ...
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| 09:46 | 14/Jan/2008 |
| The Tall Man Watching Over Chowpatty Bea... | |
| The monsoon in Mumbai was winding down and Ganesh Chaturthi had just been celebrated when it struck me that this would be a good time to pay my respects to a man I much admire. So, on a recent bright and clear morning, on my way to work, I stopped by at Chowpatty Beach , that small stretch of sand at the start of Marine Drive that is an island of c...
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| 09:46 | 14/Jan/2008 |
| Decoding the Rs 1 LacMessage | |
| It is early January here in New York and the weather had no right to be as warm and sunny as it is today. By any account it has to be freezing and below zero Celsius and the streets have to be speckled with dirty, melting snow puddles. These pigeons that we see hopping along in the square ought to be hiding from the cold in a warm nook of some bui...
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| 08:30 | 14/Oct/2007 |
| Are our IIMs Overly US-centric? | |
| Twenty six of us were seated around a long U-shaped table. It was late in the afternoon. The room was semi-dark. Each of us had a plate of sweets and a bottle of mineral water in front. A third of the people seated here were CEO’s of large and famous Indian companies, some recently retired, others still very active in business. Another third were ...
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| 07:05 | 28/Sep/2007 |
| Trying Times at Patel General Stores | |
| At the southern tip of Bombay, where Colaba Causeway meets Wodehouse Road, wedged between Flashman Cleaners (“Curtains, Carpets, our Specialty”) and Teenage Library, is Patel General Stores. Across the road is a taxi stand where half a dozen taxis are lined up. The taxi drivers chew pan, gossip and share an easy camaraderie. They are refugees from ...
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| 11:54 | 9/Sep/2007 |
| IIM and IIITs' Class-less Future | |
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| It was 7 PM by the time I finished battling the rush-hour traffic in Bombay and arrived at Worli in mid-town Bombay from my office at Mahim,near Bombay airport. It had taken me more than an hour to travel the five kilometers. I had to hunt around for awhile before I located the name board. As the lift ascended at a glacial speed up two fl...
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| 11:49 | 9/Sep/2007 |
| Discovering What We Dont Know | |
| I stared at the sheaf of photocopied reading material that the instructor had distributed to our class anger welling up inside me. “Many years had passed during which nothing of Combray…had any existence for me…”, said the opening line of the reading. What possible relevance could this reading in old fashioned, stilted English have to w...
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| 14:05 | 26/Jul/2007 |
| Business Schools: Trouble in Paradise? | |
| Things have never been better for business schools. College graduates in every country in the world vie for admissions to business schools, after, in many cases, spending months training for the tough entrance exams. Business Schools everywhere have the luxury of picking and choosing among the many who apply. In the United States, at the top busin...
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| 12:12 | 8/Jun/2007 |
| World Class- In Our Backyard | |
| It was late night at the end of a long, long day at work. Even the lights in the fishing boats anchored in Bombay harbour for the night were out. I was fishing in another ocean that night, trawling the internet for any research paper that would provide us with a method to detect India-related content on the web. There is a brute force way to do th...
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| vira | 09:11 | 28/Jan/2008 |
| Friends: (1191)
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| chalana hi zindagi hai........aaj baat kis se kare,izar-e-dil kis se kare,aaj huye kya khata,aaj na muskurane ko dil kare,pyar to kisi se hua nahi,dil to kisi ko diya nahi,naa kiya pyar ka vada,naa ki dua-e-mohobat,phir bhi kyu naa kuch dil chahe,kyu aaj na kuch karane ko dil kare,pyar ka rasta na dekha kabhi,naa hamadard koi hamane paya,phir bhi...
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| Think Tank | 16:56 | 27/Jan/2008 |
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| Games people play (Part I) |
| BooksPsychologyGames people play Games people play by Dr. Eric Berne, first time published in 1962, is one of the most famous books in the field of psychology and interpersonal relationships. I had heard about this book from my business communication teacher, and when I laid hands on it yesterday, it had to be finished today. But I accept that I fo...
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| Vikas Vij | 16:38 | 14/Jan/2008 |
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| Xenophobia |
| Xenophobia -- The fear of foreigners115 years ago, on September 11, Vivekananda took America by storm when he addressed the World Parliament of Religions in Chicago with the phrase "Sisters and Brothers of America". Such words were unheard of in the western world, and the audience was taken by a complete surprise when they saw an unknown Indian mon...
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| Jessica Singh | 09:49 | 13/Sep/2007 |
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| Sleepless in ...... |
| I have always been a dreamer.But, these days I am not even able to sleep properly. A constant irritation itches on in my mind and I know not where it comes from. As a child, our own Doctor Uncle used to point out that diagnosis was pivotal to medication. I somehow found a deeper meaning in those words in connection to our daily lives even when I wa...
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| News Domain | 12:36 | 6/Oct/2007 |
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| please income |
| SantaSingh got his promotion and became principal in colledge. To keep up with his status, he decided tospeak only in English to all his juniors. One morning, his peon peeped through the doorto see if his principal was busy. Santa Singh noticed him and shouted, 'Why areyou outstanding! Please in...
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| Omkar Shende | 11:28 | 1/Jun/2007 |
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| This is my first blog ever :)Just wanted to make a start, a Hi to all who view this page. I'll be writing about my own experience, thoughts, ideas etc.To start with, it rained last night in Mumbai and it was such fun. The anticipation of next day heat after the first rain, did not bother us. We were high on the fragrance she was emitting. It was th...
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| Srikant Sree... | 14:57 | 17/Jan/2008 |
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| Review of Live Documents: A Web based of... |
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| Review of Live Documents: A Web based office suite At long last I have a LiveDocuments user ID and decided to give this Web-based office suite a spin. Upon login, you are presented with a clean interface with a very Mac OSX’ish feel. The entire UI is Adobe Flash based (Rich Internet Application) and loaded quite fast on my home broadband connection...
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| friendly ghost | 10:13 | 22/Jan/2008 |
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| Be a Citizen. Don’t Be a Consumer |
| By Rob Deitz, Steady State BlogIn the movie “Say Anything” (apologies to those who haven’t seen this film, one of the funniest from the lost decade of the 1980s), there is a telling exchange between Lloyd Dobler and his closest friends, D.C. and Corey. Lloyd is talking to his friends about trying to win back his former girlfriend and how he’s call...
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| dilip krishnan | 12:36 | 21/Jan/2008 |
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| Headline Hunters II: Today’s NewsI am a bad leader…I will not quit politics even though things haven’t been easy for me: Govinda [Whoever quits politics! Govinda is certainly not a bad actor, nor for that matter a bad politico: see how well he learned the tricks of the trade!]One striking feature of Mrs. Sonia Gandhi is that unlike most Indian poli...
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| Down Feather | 22:11 | 9/May/2007 |
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| Where is GOD? |
| **Prelude**I am a lil sad today, my mom has been taken again to hospital and we did an ECG on her, though Doctors cleared her of just about everything, I feel depressed seeing Amma like this..Not really sure why she is suffering so much...She never expected things to turn out this way, on that fateful day in Novemeber, when they decided to do a Kid...
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| Matthew Schn... | 15:47 | 5/Dec/2007 |
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| On the trail with Anita Desai |
| To read Anita Desai is to know her genius. It is plainly evident in works such as Fire on the Mountain and Voices in the City. The characters she crafts, the strands of narration she weaves and the issues she explores in-depth are her hallmarks. To meet Anita is to see her brilliance shine brighter. It’s exhilarating to interact with such a dynamic...
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| Shruti | 18:15 | 17/Sep/2007 |
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| Missing you all.. |
| Dear Friends,Sincere apologies for not been able to keep in touch with you all for a long time now. Just came back to say Hi to all my friends.Off late, been very busy with my work and personal engagements, guys……….don’t get ideas not settling down with someone, ( u see abhi meri umar hi kya hai J).But needless to say I miss you all a lot, don’t kn...
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| Dil Kannur | 10:32 | 23/Jul/2007 |
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| Date with ??? |
| This is a beautiful story that touched my heart, trust you will enjoy reading it and then practice it .. Toooo.After 21 years of marriage, my wife wanted me to take another woman out to dinner and a movie. She said I Love you but I know this other woman loves you and would love to spend some time with you.The other woman that my wife wanted me to ...
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| john sudhakar | 17:32 | 2/Jan/2008 |
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| knew to new |
| KNEW YEAR TO NEW YEARwas wishin that somethin great wud appear on rediffblogland for new year...shame nothin really earth-shatterin and soul-squeakin...its nice to transit from the KNEW to the NEW..and lets hope we have gud enuff fun for 2008 in blogland..whatz thiz xanadu stuff?waz juzt readin either outlook or india T and i chanced upon thi...
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| neoamaan@red... | 03:39 | 11/Apr/2007 |
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| The code of Business Conduct |
| The code of Business Conduct* Always conduct business at your place of comfort. A familiarity with the place/surroundings/people gives an upper hand in any business dealing.* Never hire dumb people. Nor only will they under-perform, neither will they let you climb up.* Always hire smart, good-looking people, and know what exactly you have hired th...
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| brijesh mishra | 14:58 | 16/May/2007 |
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| Classifieds continue....... |
| some body was peeping in my PC. Man, after completing work, why can't guys just do some creative work, like me. ...Classifieds continue....I searched some thing and found they same. Pls you don't start search, you are not like me, or don't have knowledge that I possess. HEHEHE.. i have developed classifieds. Ok. I found information i was looli...
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| Sudhir Bisht | 18:28 | 28/Dec/2007 |
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| The Daughter of Destiny- Benazir |
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| The slaying of Benazir comes across as a major blow to themillions of people in the sub-continent who have grown sentimentally attachedto the four most charismatic and illustrious families in South Asia. The Nehru-Gandhi family, the Bhutto family, the SheikhMuzib-ur-Rehman and the Kumaratunga- Bhandaranaike family are there, right inthe Top bracket...
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| Krishna Prasad | 12:11 | 15/Jan/2008 |
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| DESERT RAIN |
| Desert Rain Rain came without any warningTown started floodingWithin minutes and found Cars stopped in the flood I was lucky to move awayFrom flood in the roadsSince found the roadsHaving good drainage When I saw water pouringRemembered old days in IndiaWhere I play in rain andWash our whole body in rain Smell of the first rain is awesomeBecause it...
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| Arindam Sen | 17:04 | 8/Nov/2006 |
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| Last post in the interview series! |
| CAT experiences of IIMA students - I received quite a good feedback for the interviews. CAT aspirants have now a guideline and benchmark to follow. I remember we were quite unsure about how many to attempt! Some of us screwed up CAT just because they had no idea how many is adequate and ended up trying for the impossible. Now you have a definite pl...
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| Madhavan PK | 17:28 | 14/Jan/2008 |
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| The Great Indian Dream |
| First of all, I want to thank all my iland friends for sharing their views on Indianness. My friends Dilip Krishnan and Budhoose Kanjoose have separate posts on the topic, both must-reads. The common thread in defining the indefinable is the ‘unity in diversity’ theme. Like some of you have said, the concept of Indianness is so imbibed and internal...
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| janus janus | 14:54 | 25/Jan/2008 |
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| Some funnies to keep the smiles on |
| A three-year-old boy was examining his pee pee while taking a bath. "Mama," he asked, "are these my brains?" Mama smiled and answered, "Not yet." *****A woman confided to her girlfriend, "My ex-husband wants to marry me again." The friend said, "How flattering." The woman replied, "Not really. I think he's after the money I married him...
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| PRATAP TC | 07:08 | 4/Dec/2006 |
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| A little bit of GK.... |
| Things I never even thought to ask. . .did I need to know it?Alaska :More than half of the coastline of the entire United States is in Alaska.Amazon:The Amazon rain forest produces more than 20% the world's oxygen supply. The Amazon River pushes so much water into the Atlantic Ocean that, more than one hundred miles at sea off the mouth of the rive...
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| Apurba Sen | 13:13 | 21/Oct/2007 |
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| "Jab We Met" vs "Saawariya" |
| Here is how the movies are competing in blogosphere."Jab We Met" will be released on this Friday Oct 26th & "Saawariya" on next Friday Nov 9th.I must say its neck-to-neck.Going by IndiaFm music reviews "Jab We Met" [3.5] has slight edge over Leela Bhansali's "Saawariya" [3].When I heard "Tum se Hi",I simply loved the track.Although to much of my ...
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| Cyril Paul | 23:23 | 9/Nov/2007 |
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| Phataaack!!! |
| Explosions everywhere. An otherwise dark sky is lit up in a grey haze. Some people run - some don't, choosing to stay and watch the explosions. Deafening noise all around, the kind that makes your heart leap to your throat. Sporadic gunfire - even little children know how to handle guns adroitly these days. A series of explosions go off somewhere t...
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| Siddarth-The... | 12:50 | 22/Jan/2008 |
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| I am what you call a khabri,a person who passeson information to the police on the location and whereabouts of mygangster boss. Yes, like the old Hindi movies, I too had a widowedmother and a young sister who was unmarried despite being of the age todo so.I had to take odd jobs as I was ‘uneducated’, (not educated enough to work in a blue collar jo...
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| Nandan Newla... | 01:20 | 22/Aug/2007 |
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| SAND |
| im never myself and never for myselfand that was why i had dug down the sandfor some short messagesthe bucket was deepand the sand mostly dryi took it out one after otherbucket in hand i emptied my messagesand my world went tring tringno one knew where i had hidsuch was the load of unread messagesi was dog tiredbut i still tried and tried to keep t...
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| shishir bhate | 19:52 | 21/Mar/2006 |
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| Are more H-1B visas good for India? |
| By the end of this month, if will be clear if the US Senate Immigration Reform Bill introduced to decide whether H-1B visa limit should be increased from 65,000 to 115,000 has been defeated or allowed to sail through successfully. Everyone says an increase in the H-1B visa limit will help Indians the most. Will it, really? But more on that in just ...
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| Sabarinath Nair | 22:16 | 19/Jan/2008 |
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| When the hunters become the hunted |
| MBAs, especially those majoring in Marketing Management are supposed to influence others' buying and increase sales, and not by buying things on their own, right?Sometime last week, we had a course in Consumer Behaviour, where we looked at various ways of connecting to the buyers' emotions, and about providing an 'experience' as opposed to a 'produ...
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| Krishna Reddy | 02:06 | 8/Jan/2008 |
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| Some kewl Art of Living links!!!! |
| Here are some cool links (in big block letters!!!!) given by Harshal Jadhav, an active Art of Living volunteer from Switzerland. SANGAM - All India NGO Summit for Environment Sri Sri Ravishankar"s Knowledge Sheets Enjoy Q & A with Sri Sri!! Artofliving Projects Art of Living website Harshal, happy now? :)))) We miss you a lot! Love, Krishna
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| jasmeet singh | 11:29 | 5/Oct/2006 |
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| I must have been three when I first sat on the handle bar of my dad's Hero cycle. He had installed a small seat so that my derriere would be cushioned against the unavoidable bumps on the road. I would sit wide eyed holding the front bar feeling the breeze hit my face as we would ride to Juhu beach every Sunday. This was our weekly ritual; a treat ...
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| The Witch | 23:29 | 4/Jan/2006 |
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| My Stupid Suicide Plan - Chetan Bhagat |
| Last week, an IITian committed suicide. People who commit suicide do itwhen they feel there's no future. But wait, isn't IIT the one placewhere a bright and shining future is a foregone conclusion? It justdoesn't add up, does it? Why would a young, hardworking, bright studentwho has the world ahead of him do something like this? But the answer isth...
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| surya s | 22:05 | 17/Jan/2008 |
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| 2008's lessons |
| Its that time of the year when laziness and a start of a new year prompts one to make lists.Now, these are not exclusively my words of wisdom. They were given to me by different people at different times. Some were said. Some were shown. Some were demonstrated. And all of them worked for me. So without much ado, lets take a look at life"s little le...
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| Amit Agrawal | 00:12 | 26/Jan/2008 |
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| dua ka asar |
| masroof yun hai meri zindagiki tanha nahin kabhi rehta mainbheed itni hai mere ird gird kisannate ko kahin chhod aaya maindil bhi rootha dost bhi chhootamujhse mera bachpan chhootaitni sard kyun hai muskaan meriye kis mukaam pe aaya maindost ne saath na chhodachaahe saath chalte nahin ab aasaanmauka milna to uski inaayat haihar mod pe usko mil paay...
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| sandeep ozarde | 10:47 | 26/Oct/2007 |
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| The Real Shopping-Cart Revolution |
| Five hundred years of progress packed into a sack of flour.By J. Bradford DeLong, Wired MagHere's some food for thought.A smart shopper can buy a 5-pound bag of Gold Medal flour for 69 cents. That's enough to feed three people for a day - 7,500 easy-to-digest, relatively nutritious, and potentially tasty calories. All for less than 0.7 percent of a...
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