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Steve, you were truly one of a kind and left well before your time was up. R.I.P  

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. I first came across his name when I was at Symbiosis and his books were listed as recommended reading during our course. I [...]

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. An IIT-Kanpur alumnus and a Stanford University professor who [...]

And………… another weekend comes to an end… well, the above title pretty much sums up the events of the past couple of days !! I finally went for my long delayed test drive of the Hyundai i10 Kappa. As may be obvious from my other posts, I’m quite firm in my belief that automatic transmissions will replace stick shifts [...]