Reading a good travel book in 2020 is a bittersweet experience. Jules Brown is a seasoned traveler, and in his book, a collection of 35 stories, Jules takes us to some familiar destinations and a few unusual ones. One of the unusual places is Takoradi itself. Located in Ghana’s industrial heart, Takoradi is seldom mentioned…
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#Podcast- Business Wars Appreciation Post
Business Wars by Wondary is one of my favorite podcast. Though I would credit Serial to be the first podcast that truly sold me the medium but only with Business Wars I started binge the episodes and almost consumed in the entire catalog. Hosted by David Brown, Business Wars are the episodes written around business…
That Rolling Stone Magazine ! ( Do you collect Magazines? )
This week, I said goodbye to my magazines’ collection. I had bunch of some old editions of National Geographic, Lonely Planet, The New Yorker and The Rolling Stone magazines. As the space is the constant issue, I had to choose between some books and these magazines and I guess you all know by now how…
Most Disappointing books that I have read this year
It is rightly said that we should not judge the book by its cover. The saying itself is a cliche now. Whenever I like a book cover I also give it a 2 page reading test to the book and most of the time it tells me what to do with the book. Books are…
Ramsay- The brothers Who Knew the Infinity (Of Horror)
Originally posted on Movie Research Company:
The First Family of Indian Horror Genre The story begins with a pivotal moment in history – India’s partition. Like many many families during the era, F U. Ramsay along with his wife and seven sons migrated to India. But unlike many, this family made a mark at a…
The tale of taste
The taste is one thing that unites us. If you think about the nation which cannot find a single language, religion or customs to represent everyone, but it will always can be defined by the taste. It does not mean that I am undermining the culinary diversity of the country, which in fact is as…
School of Rock for Blog
Every blogger is an impostor- they all lie about something. I have met so many of them and I know that they are not real. They are hiding something beyond your pictures, smiles, posts and prose- there is something beyond their blog that they are protecting – and their this ability to disguise make them…
My First Post from the WordPress Mobile App
Me and my laptop are inseparable. I rarely leave it behind, it’s always in my backpack. Actually I have been told by so many people that why can’t I leave your apartment without your backpack ? It’s difficult to make people understand the constant need to be closer to the laptop. What if I get…
The Sloth Gone Missing !
I am finding it difficult to write these day- this is my seventh draft in seven days. I went back and read some of my old posts- I found nothing amusing there. I read some of the old stories that I had written. I got smitten by some of the characters that I had created-…
Book Twins (Part II)
Also in the series : Recent Book loves Book twins (Part 1) On the same theme of the Book Twins, I present you following book twins from my list: 3. Da Vinci Code & The Krishna Key : Dan Brown’s Da Vinci code was a genre defining book in every prospect. It broke the best…
Death on the door step (RIP- Harper Lee )
“We have reached an age where we will see death of people we admired, frequently. “ My friend texted me this message when she read about the death of David Bowie. David Bowie was our kind of rockstar. He was an avid reader, a creator and a thinker. He questioned major television networks, political parties…
What is this story about ?
When I was younger, the stories always ended with a moral. A lesson with the each story was a compulsive necessity. At first, we were told the morals, and then we were asked to find them. Our stories had kings, queens, magicians, elephants, crows and beggars. The honesty was celebrated, the evil was shamed, the…
MAMI reviews #2 Heavenly Nomadic ( Sutak)
After waiting in the queue to watch Taxi Tehran for almost 20 minutes, I gave up and went to the screening of Heavenly Nomadic in next Audi in PVR-Lower Parel. Heavenly Nomadic or Sutak, is the movie from Kyrgyzstan, about Kirghiz nomad family based in the mountains. A family consists of the Old couple, their widowed daughter-in-law,…
My Tuscan Holiday- An Excursion to Siena
Perfect way to start your morning. Beautiful pictures fro Siena, a renaissance city from Italy, and a great post by Ishita. I recommend you to follow her blog if you love travel, food, wine, books and mostly Italy.
Whatsapp and the Business Communication
More and more businesses are now using Mobile Instant Messengers for business communication. Earlier, only handful of the projects, finance and marketing oriented professionals were exclusively using Blackberry Messengers (BBM) and subscribing to Blackberry’s enterprise solutions. With the smartphone revolution let by Android devices has made Mobile messengers more common. Whatsapp is not only the…
Accenture is freeing 300,000-plus employees from performance reviews
Personally, I am from school of thought that also believes that annual review of employees is the lazy attempt to keep track of in-house talent, their performance & their appraisal . There are many qualitative aspects that gets completely or marginally ignored in this system.
On Bobby “I am Not Indian” Jindal
Originally posted on The Greatbong Blog & Podcast:
[From here] Jindal stresses how he avoided telling his parents of his new faith and how disappointed they were when they found out. He said he read the Bible by flashlight to prevent being discovered by his folks, and compared his clandestine study to the early Christians…
Sanskaari Social Media Advice
A good family always believe in keeping in an eye on their kids even if it includes creeping them out and asking annoying questions about their friends. Some parents even try hard to discover the sexuality of their kids by invoking Justin Bieber, One Direction, Varun Dhawan and Miley Cyrus in the casual discussion. However…
Till Death Or Other Weird Reasons Do Us Part
Originally posted on Ashish Shakya:
The Great Indian Wedding Season is drawing to a close, which is sad because I look at weddings the same way I look at getting tasered – it’s great fun if it’s happening to someone else. The best one I attended was basically a beach-and-beer party where there just happened…
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