Category: Life and Travel
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Whose responsibility is it to make one “job-ready”?
The industry cribs all the time that Indian education doesn’t produce enough job-ready people. I wonder, is it the responsibility of the schools/colleges to make one job ready by training them on specific tasks? Or is it the school/college’s responsibility to provide the students with the general tools and knowledge of theories and practices that will…
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Elevators
Elevators permitted increases in height of buildings. In other words, density of people living per square km could go up because elevator permitted multiple floors and hence more people. More people per square km means that a much larger number of people are using the same available space of roads to move around. Congestion. What do…
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Reading List 21st Nov, 2013
(Was out on a vacation and hence no edition of reading list came out during the last couple of weeks.) 1.) Why drinking hits women harder and why older you get alcohol hits you harder? Some interesting facts: Body composition starts to change as early as the 30s. As people age, they tend to lose…
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Reading List- 23rd Nov, 2013
1.)What if your memory is fake? Article: Fake memory Those people who seem to have a photographic memory might just be having a fake memory! 2.) A brilliant innovation gets you fit for the Olympics! Video: Subway tickets 3.) The story of Mike Tyson. Told again. Article: Mike Tyson 4.) How Amazon became an everything…
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Proliferation of “Chinese” goods!
When I went around looking for some memorabilia at the Liberty Island, US hoping to take something back home, I was surprised to see all items having a “Made in China” stamp. I repeat … all. I was stumped. I wanted to carry something back that represented the US and here, everything that represented the…
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Developed vs developing world
Is there a way to differentiate between a “developed” nation and a “developing” nation by asking a single question? I think yes. When you want to find out if a particular place belongs to the “developed” category just ask a fairly rich local “What is your preferred mode of travel within the city/town anytime during…
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Private property v/s Shared ownership
In the real “physical” world, humans went from economies based on shared resources or common property resources as seen during the “hunter gatherer” phase of ancient human civilisation to the economies based on concepts of private property and ownership as we see today in the modern era. Interestingly, in the digital world, we have taken…
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The Dreamliner
The recent excitement and fanfare around the arrival of the Dreamliner aircraft in India reminded me of the good old childhood days. The average Indian household was then deprived of most of the material luxuries (“durable goods”) that we consider basic necessities today. The most sophisticated device that you could expect to find in the house…
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