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Book Review – A Bed of Red Flowers: In Search of My Afghanistan
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I recently finished reading A Bed of Red Flowers : In Search of My Afghanistan, and I was deeply moved by this book. This book is written by Nelofer Pazira who lived for ten years under the Soviet occupation in Afghanistan, escaped to Pakistan and emigrated to Canada from there. The book is her story about growing up
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Book Review: Animal Farm
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I’ve recently finished reading Animal Farm written by George Orwell, and it is quite an extraordinary book. It is a classic and I won’t be surprised if a lot of you have already read it, but if not, please pick it up and give it a read. It is brief, thought provoking and although it
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Book Review: Game of Thrones Series
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(There are no spoilers in this review) A lot of you must have seen the hit TV series – Game of Thrones, and most people who see the TV series absolutely love it. I’m a big fan of the TV series myself, and it is easily the best thing I’ve ever seen on TV. A
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Book Review: To kill a Mockingbird
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I’ve recently finished reading Harper Lee’s – To Kill a Mockingbird, and I really enjoyed this classic novel. The novel is set in a fictional small town in Alabama during the Depression, and is narrated by Jean Louse Finch or Scout who is 5 when the story starts, and is 8 when the story ends. The story is
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Book Review: The Power of Full Engagement
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I have recently finished reading The Power of Full Engagement by Jim Loehr and Tony Schwartz and found it quite useful. The main idea behind the book is that you should focus on managing your energy, and not your time to excel in your professional and personal lives. The authors train with athletes to manage
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Book Review: How to Fail at Almost Everything and Still Win Big: Kind of the Story of My Life
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I finished reading “How to Fail at Almost Everything and Still Win Big: Kind of the Story of My Life” written by Dilbert creator Scott Adams today, and I enjoyed it very much. I have been reading Mr. Adams’s blog for several years now, and I have also read most of his earlier books, so
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Budgetonomics Review
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Deepak Shenoy and Dheeraj Singh have teamed up to write a short ebook on the recent budget called Budgetonomics: Demystifying Budget 2013, and the result is great! It is short at 40 pages, and it took me less than ten minutes to breeze through the ebook yesterday. It costs Rs. 99 or $2 and was
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My interview in a book about blogging by Deepak Raj
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Deepak Raj who runs the extremely popular blog: BikeAdvice approached me a few months ago as he was writing a book on blogging and wanted to do an interview with me. He interviewed 4 other popular bloggers from India, and created a mini book called BLOG ROCKSTARS – 5 Bloggers Reveal Their Secrets to Successful
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Book Review: Makers: The New Industrial Revolution
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Makers is the most amazing book I’ve read in recent times, and I’m not surprised that I liked this so much because it is about one of the things I’m quite fascinated with viz. 3D printing. The book is by Wired editor Chris Anderson who is actually in the process of quitting Wired and doing
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How did this ever happen?
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I’m currently reading Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds, which is a book about bubbles and excesses, and it is only natural that the Tulip Mania found its way into the book. For those of you unfamiliar with the Tulip mania, it was a bubble in Holland in the 1600s which involved Tulips!
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Ted Talk: Joshua Foer Feats of Memory Anyone Can Do
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I reviewed the Classic Guide to Improving Your Memory in July last year, and while I had no doubt that the techniques in the book work I never got in the habit of using them and had all but forgotten about the it until a few days ago. Then I chanced upon this Ted Talk
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Book Review: Thinking, Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman
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“Thinking, Fast and Slow” is written by Daniel Kahneman who won the Nobel prize in Economics in 2002 and what’s most amazing about this is that he hasn’t taken a single economics course in his life, and is chiefly a research psychologist. This is one of the most amazing books that I’ve ever read and
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