As I move around the streets of my native Cuttack through its different seasons, I pass through different circumstances. During the rainy season, the streets get waterlogged, difficult to navigate. In the dry season, traffic logjams make it equally difficult to move around. It is not an easy life or an easy city. However, I notice one thing: rain or hail, sun or shine, the […]
Pooja has a problem. She lives in a bungalow as part of a large joint family. She is sitting in her little corner trying to prepare for her upcoming exams — but is close to losing her mind because of the noise around her. Joint families are noisy as a rule with conversations and discussions and arguments. To add to that, there has been the […]
Two of the most brilliant — and wealthy — persons on the planet are hardly ever in the news. If you mentioned their names — Larry Page and Sergei Brin — most people would not recognize them at all. And yet the quiet genius of these two men is responsible for most of modern life as we know it. So many of us use Gmail, […]
Ben Cohen and Jerry Greenfield were best buddies from childhood in the town of Merrick, New York, USA. After finishing college, Jerry found himself at a loose end, unable to gain admission to medical school. Ben, meanwhile, was already a high school dropout. In 1977, the two completed a correspondence course on ice-cream making from Pennsylvania State University’s creamery. A year later, with $12,000, the […]
Nearly every schoolchild will remember learning the terms simple interest and compound interest as mathematical concepts. Most of us think of interest as a financial term used by investors and bankers. All of us know that compound interest is interest that is paid on interest. When the concept of compounding is applied to daily life it has an effect that is nothing short of astounding. […]
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