If you are worried about your kid’s addiction to Diablo, Hearthstone or Dark Souls (these are some of the more popular games which kids play these days), then you are not alone.
However, this m...
I have always looked to simplify life around me, and most of the times it has been easy, because I have been ruthless about throwing out things that were not in use at the time of the clean-up. Simila...
Students often ask me whether they would be able to get into a top-notch college. My answer to this is a short ‘Yes.’
If a student believes in herself and work hard towards her admission, ...
Reading through an article in the Atlantic on active forgetting (How Active Forgetting Makes Memory More Efficient?), it occurred to me that the current age of cheap memory sticks and cameras in every...
A leading Silicon Valley based Venture Capital (VC) fund called Andreessen Horowitz recently announced a Bio Fund. This is not very surprising in itself as lots of VC funds set up sector-specific fund...
A recent news article about an auction at Christie’s of a painting called Portrait of Edmond Belamy caught my eye. This painting sold for about $432,500, about 43 times its reserve price. So, wh...
This girl was not a genius – she had to work extremely hard to make her creations come alive. She was not a creative genius who would lift a brush and paintings would come out. In fact, for the ...
“Doesn’t matter what you learn, you can still change the world”
We live in interesting times. Everything we learn today, however esoteric, can be beneficial to our careers in some wa...
Sometimes we are willing to compromise on our time for the sake of money. Taking a hard assignment, putting in long hours, sacrificing time with the family or friends all in the hope of a good reward ...
