Good Night and Good Luck

I just now finished watching ‘Good Night and Good Luck’.. a film based on real life events between a television reporter and a politician in 1950’s America.. an awesome film.. gives you a feel of what television journalism is all about.
This is the inspiration to my next entry in Biography series.. Edward R. Murrow, the [...]

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Shashi Tharoor

I have heard of Shashi Tharoor sometime before when he was on the final list for UN General Secretary post. I believe he lost that because someone vetoed him. I couldn’t reason it out. No politics here.. I read this article about him in rediff this morning and it seems hez quite a personality..
Here is [...]

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Harold Abrahams

Harold Abrahams – again inspired by Chariots of fire. He won the 1924 Olympic gold medal for 100m dash. He was the first to employ himself a foreign coach Sam Buccinni, a first of its kind in Britain.
He also won a 700 year old unconquered challenge inside Cambridge university in his freshmen year, I believe. [...]

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Eric Liddell

My next 2 entries in ‘Biography series’ would be of someone inspired by the film ‘Chariots of Fire’. The first one would be of ‘Eric Liddell’. In 1924 Olympics held in Paris, Eric won the gold medal for 400m running. In the same Olympics, he also won the Bronze medal for 200m running. Eric is also [...]

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My Top 3 Biographies

To reiterate my flair for biographies, here is my list of top 3 (auto) biographies in Business.
1. Jack Welch – Straight from the gut
2. Bill Gates – Hard Drive: Bill Gates and making of Microsoft Empire
3. Iacocca – An Autobiography and Akio Morita’s ‘Made in Japan’
I know I have a lot to read but let [...]

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Edward Bok

The first in my Biography series would be of ‘Edward Bok’. I got a hint of this man when I was reading ‘How to win friends & Influence people’ by Dale Carnegie last night. His is the one that first came to my mind when I started this series. So here are some facts from [...]

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Biographies

I have this flair for reading biographies. It always interests me what people did, when they did and what made them to do it. Their passion, their confidence, the way they saw there life can always give you some hope you are looking for. Atleast I believed some of them did.
So I am starting a [...]

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