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Gary Coleman is dead. Seeing this news on my Twitter timeline suddenly took me back into a time long long ago. Gary was a child actor and probably best known for his role as Arnold Jackson in the hit TV series of the ’80s, Diff’rent Strokes.. a time when TV series were just pure fun! [...]

Came to know that Dr.Udai Pareek, one of the luminaries of HR in India, is no more. Besides being on the board of several academic institues and a distinguished speaker, he was also quite a prolific author.

Not for nothing is Ram Charan referred to by Fortune as the ‘most influential consultant alive’, and it was good to read up on an interview with him by ET’s Corporate Dossier team.

In a tribute to his legendary charisma and for giving us some of the most innovative products of our times, Fortune Magazine has named Apple bossman Steve Jobs as CEO of the Decade, saying that his success in reordering four industries – computers, music, movies and mobile phones -was “unheard of.”

Happened to come across some tweets and then a couple of news items that said Rajeev Motwani passed away suddenly. Frankly, I’d heard of his name only once before, and even then wasn’t able to recall who he was but a little browsing soon got me up to speed.

Happened to read that T.N Shanbag passed away.
The Strand was a treasure trove and I used to frequent the place a lot, quite often just in the hope of finding a book I’d long wanted to own or even just browse around. Mr.Shanbag of course was always helpful and would even suggest books or authors similar [...]

Dipchand ‘Deep’ Nishar is all set to leave Google and join LinkedIn.

On November 22, 1963, US President John F.Kennedy was shot dead in Dallas, Texas. This is probably one of the greatest whodunits ever, with no conclusive evidence about the events of that day. So many theories, that it’s simply mind boggling…

After almost 18 tumultous months at the helm, Jerry Yang, co-founder of Yahoo! has decided to step down from his present role of CEO.