I binged on various shows this year -- some for work, some for pleasure, few I couldn't spare time for, others I didn't have access to while some started out fabulously only to fizzle towards the end.
There are three things you never do in a small North East state: Undermine local leaders, divide and rule, push homogenisation, asserts Shekhar Gupta.
Whenever you think of Microsoft, the only name that crosses one's mind is Bill Gates. But the tech behemoth was co-founded in 1975 by Gates and Paul Allen.
The user cannot expect his or her privacy to be secured.
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Joginder Tuteja goes back a decade, and looks at the big movies that flopped from 10 years ago.
Freedom doesn't mean experimenting everything that comes your way. Tread with caution, warns Dr Prakriti Poddar.
'E-mail can become a 24-hour, 7-day/week job if we respond to everything.' 'Be selective, communicate to your teams that you prefer live conversation versus e-mail, and don't be afraid to push "Delete"!' A fascinating excerpt from Mike Thomas's Agents of Change: Unleashing The Innovation of Real-Life Superheroes.
The future belongs to the young; not the old, asserts Shyam G Menon.
Party insiders concede statements of the Raja kind have the potential to hurt the DMK's electoral chances in closely-fought seats in 2024, observes N Sathiya Moorthy.
There's nothing wrong in Vidya Balan's performance. There's just nothing new about it, feels Sukanya Verma.
Supertech Managing Director Mohit Arora said the company will file a review petition in the SC.
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'Working from home is a privilege for many, while showing up every day to serve others is a measure of devoted service to fellow humans required of many jobs in service to each other that create a civil society,' a CEO responds to Sree Sreenivasan's Work Remotely Forever Pledge.
Joan MacDonald began her fitness journey three years ago and has already lost 22 kg.
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The most common complaint of financial consumers is cumbersome processes, complicated products, usurious charges, and mis-selling of products, which finally don't deliver what is promised or as expect, notes Debashis Basu.
It's always been a struggle for economists and statisticians to forecast India's gross domestic product (GDP) correctly, and say where the economy is headed before the official numbers come out. If estimating the GDP is tough, forecasting it in real time is complicated. It involves looking at tens of indicators, such as industrial production, electricity consumption and exports, to arrive at a number.
Anup Raaj shares the lessons he learned from his mentor.
Bollywood has told many 'Brothers' tales over the years.
Jackie caters both to the class and the mass. It has a fair share of both sentiments and action and even comes with a message on human trafficking.
'Soli steadfastly believed in Voltaire's famous dictum that he would disagree violently with anyone but defend to death that person's right to disagree with him.'
Xi does not want to risk any political or economic crisis complicating his bid to remain in office, observes Ambassador Shyam Saran, the former foreign secretary.
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The Big Sick is packed with delicious details, moments and scenes that makes the film stand apart as a smart rom-com, says Aseem Chhabra.
Why hasn't India produced a single earth-shaking idea like Python or the World Wide Web, asks Ajit Balakrishnan.
Pellissery's women continue to express the beauty in our common humanity. And often, these women go so far into expressing our hopes, desires, absurdities and follies that they end up acting at variance with the ethical prescriptions of our age. And this, I believe, is precisely why they remain "invisible" to a whole bunch of viewers, says Sreehari Nair.
...and getting GDP to measure India's data economy, recommends Ajit Balakrishnan.
Manchester United manager Jose Mourinho said the international break has made his plans for the Manchester derby a bit more 'complicated' than he would have liked, especially with his South American players returning a day before the clash.
Friendships are not merely severed, but built over scuffles. And just about anything can stir things up -- a long-standing feud, a pointless stare, a disrupted moral stance, a fist that ricochets off a face and smacks another face in the near vicinity, observes Sreehari Nair.
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I remember a showbiz wedding during which guests had to sit through several painstakingly rehearsed but awkward dances performed by the bride's and groom's relatives. When Karan rolled his eyes, I smiled and said to him, 'You started it, now you suffer it.' An enchanting excerpt from Anupama Chopra's A Place In My Heart.
Restraint and focus could help build a strong portfolio
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'J'One of the reasons Jim Comey was fired was because he wouldn't pledge loyalty to Trump, which meant that whatever Trump is hiding would be dismissed or the investigations will be stopped.'
A fun excerpt from Diptakirti Chaudhuri's Bollygeek: The Crazy Trivia Guide to Bollywood.
'For me personally, there was nothing till Aranyak made me say, 'This is it!''
Remember that everything originates from a thought, everything is just a thought, until you act on it, and thoughts can be changed.
Kumbalangi Nights is one of those movies that will put you in a good mood every time you watch it, promises Anita Aikara.
'Basuda welcomed viewers into a world that was instantly familiar and comfortable,' observes Sukanya Verma.
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