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This is not just my story. This is the story of most of the people out there. We are told a lie at a very tender age, study properly in your school and college will be a cakewalk. When you finally enter college with a bag load of expectations and hope, you realise it is not the cakewalk it was promised to be.  You endure , not that you had a choice, but you do it no matter what. Work hard and get a job. Everyone assures you, “ Your life is now set. You will live happily ever after ”. Do we? We join our new job with a new set of expectations about being employed, doing the job we love, living the live we always wanted. An office with a beautiful view, wonderful colleagues with whom you get to collaborate and create magic. How many of these dreams comes true? Within a few days you realise, this is not the glorious beautiful world you wanted to be in. Some how you have entered a rat race which doesn’t have an exit. So you keep running, harder, pushing yourself to the limits ever...

We have seen all the fancy Iron Man movies where the bossy Tony Stark comes and instructs his ever obedient Artificial Intelligence Jarvis to prepare his suit! Well now with Mark Zuckerberg coming and introducing his Morgan Freeman voiced Jarvis to the world, it begs the question. Should AI become the future? Do we really need an AI to get along. Let us analyse the impact it is likely to have on our lives. 1. It is likely to make us more lazy. Yes even lazier than we are now. Facebook has done enough damage. It has curbed our social networking to posting a few pics, garnering likes and chatting with a bunch of close friends. When was the last time you actually picked up the phone and called a friend to have coffee or dinner? Or just to check how he/she is doing. Yes FB has already screwed us up pretty badly on this front 2. Reduce our breakfast to some bread toast and oats? Ever heard of Dosas? Or tasty food that that tickles your taste buds, well convenience comes at a co...

Tops news for the day from leading newspapers (Includes latest news also) 1. FIIs raise concern about Tata Sons having access to strategic information about Tata Motors Source: http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/company/corporate-trends/fiis-raise-concerns-over-tata-sons-having-access-to-strategic-information-about-tata-motors/articleshow/55280086.cms 2. Theresa May arrives on a three day visit to India to enhance Indo-UK ties on defence, trade, security and investment http://www.thehindu.com/news/national/theresa-mays-india-visit-whats-on-the-agenda/article9314273.ece?homepage=true 3. FBI says that review of Clinton emails find no ground for charges Link 4. At CoP 22, India to highlight climate impact on Himalayas http://www.thehindu.com/sci-tech/energy-and-environment/at-cop-22-india-will-highlight-climate-impact-on-himalayas/article9312452.ece?homepage=true 5. Tatas postpone investor meet scheduled for November 18. It is postponed to the next quarter ht...

#10 : The Ruy Lopez Though this is a move which we may play naturally at times, it gives the white side a slight advantage. Also develops an early castle #9 : Sicilian Defence Once considered a bad opening, now this is one of the best ways used by players of all rankings #8 : The Queens Gambit d4-d5 setting. White sacrifices a pawn to get an early advantage and mostly ends up recovering the pawn #7 : The Alekhine Defence Replying to the pawn by bringing the knight into the game #6 : The modern defence Source: https://www.chess.com/blog/monsterking/top-10-most-powerful-openings To be continued..

Top news for the day from the leading newspapers (Includes latest news also) 1. Cyrus Mistry ousted as he hid information from Tata Sons, says insiders http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/company/corporate-trends/cyrus-mistry-ousted-because-he-hid-information-from-tata-sons-reveal-insiders/articleshow/55260920.cms 2.  Is Narendra Modi government entering self-destruction mode? http://www.huffingtonpost.in/2016/11/05/is-the-modi-government-entering-self-destruction-mode/?utm_hp_ref=in-homepage 3. Criticism on NDTV India ban ill informed, says Venkaiah Naidu http://www.thehindu.com/news/national/ndtv-india-ban-venkaiah-naidu-says-criticism-illinformed/article9310049.ece?homepage=true 4. Theresa May visits India under a cloud of uncertainty. This is her first trade visit post Brexit http://www.thehindu.com/news/international/theresa-may-visits-india-under-a-cloud-of-uncertainty/article9310526.ece?homepage=true 5. UK Government failing India as true partner: Jer...

Just came across the ad of this wonderful phone named Google Pixel. Google seems all set for a revolution, after introducing their first phone. All that is left for them is to launch a laptop/palmtop version to compete with Apple. This is in addition to the dominance in the web search department where Apple doesn't exist. If Google is able to succeed in the mobile market that would pave way to attempt forays into other new departments. I am sure innovation is underway at the Google HQ as we speak. I have always been a fan of the Google based Android backed smartphones. These phones now form over 80% of all smartphones in the market. Source: Business Insider As it can be clearly observed, the Android has grown over the years overthrowing all the other existing operating systems. In fact one of the main reasons for the decline of Nokia, which was the best phone maker in the world. The inability to adapt to newer technology. They stuck too long with the Symbian OS hoping it would...

Covering the major headlines across top news papers globally. 1. With 4 days to go for the historic US presidential election, who will it be? Hillary or Trump? Hillary leads by 2 points in new poll https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2016/11/04/dont-look-now-the-electoral-map-is-definitely-moving-in-donald-trumps-direction/?tid=sm_fb http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/international/world-news/hillary-clinton-leads-by-two-points-in-new-poll/articleshow/55255609.cms 2. Meanwhile Indians want Hillary to win. Only 7% want Trump to emerge as the winner http://www.huffingtonpost.in/2016/11/04/huffpo-cvoter-survey-indians-prefer-hillary-clinton-over-donald/?utm_hp_ref=in-homepage 3. Minority shareholders feel the ouster of Cyrus Mistry was unfair http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/company/corporate-trends/minority-shareholders-protest-unfair-ouster-of-cyrus-mistry/articleshow/55253173.cms 4. Tamil Nadu CM Jayalalithaa has completely recovered: Apollo Ho...

Noble initiative to start writing more blogs educational in nature related to new things I come across as I move ahead in my MBA journey. About an year and a half left in this quest for knowledge. Will share in detail a new post about my college experiences in another post. Coming to business, we had this interesting session by our Macro Economics professor on how the money system works. What gives money its value and so on. One of the new terms I come across and interestingly the meaning is something quite contrary to what I had expected. So just thought I should research a bit more and write about it. Quoting from Investopedia: "Legal tender is any official medium of payment recognised by law that can be used to extinguish a public or private debt, or meet a financial obligation. The national currency is legal tender in practically every country. A creditor is obligated to accept legal tender toward r epayment  of a debt." So to basica...

Lets have a look at all the top business news for today from across the world. Expect a gist of all the main news. Check here to skip reading the entire news and get the entire update within 5-10 mins. NB: Most of the articles below have been sourced from The Economic Times. One plus one offers could possibly be affected after the introduction of the GST bill as the free item may also be affected by the Section 3 of the GST bill. This could call for some change in sales and marketing strategies in the future Though not strictly into the business news category, it seems that the recent controversy ridden movie 'Udta Punjab' which deals with the issue of drug abuse in Punjab has been leaked online. We recommend that you watch it in theatres Can't be complacent with 7.6% growth: Infosys co-founder NR Narayana Murthy. India's growth at 7.6% will add $150 billion to GDP. The $16 trillion US GDP would add ~$500 bn even if they grew at 3% Indian carriers can now fly i...

So, the other day I had the opportunity to appear for the WAT-PI sessions of IIT Bombay SJMSOM. For those of you wondering what WAT-PI is, it is the abbreviation for Written ability test and personal interview. It was the most wonderful interview I had this entire season and I attended close to ten this year. I have more to say on that but lets get to that in a separate post. SJMSOM - IIT Bombay B School I was done with the process by morning and was taking a walk through the campus as I had some free time. My flight was at 6:50 PM. It was a typical engineering college, in fact it is arguably the best engineering college in the country with an acceptance rate of less than 1%. I could never make it there for a B.Tech degree. Maybe MBA? Even the Master of Management program there is highly competitive with only the top 1.5% applicants getting calls for WAT-PI. I consider myself fortunate to have had that opportunity. So even I did my engineering from the best college in my state ...

These days I am looking for a trigger, no, its not a gun. I am looking for a trigger to write. This blog needs to be revamped. Have I not been writing all this while? Well, I have been, though it was more towards the personal side. Hence, I did not really bother to publish it here. Did not think it was worth mentioning. Coming back to the trigger, I have been wanting to write in this blog and publish a post for the past few days. Right now, it is a post that I was going through. In fact, on a daily basis, given the fact that I am sitting in front of the computer close to 30-40% of my day, I ready a plethora of articles. But some strike a cord. Maybe I will take an effort to actually pen down my thoughts when I stumble upon something. After all, sharing is caring. A lot of things have changed in my personal and professional life over the past few years. In terms of the view of issues, dealing with them and so on. Not going to delve too much into this at this stage. The entrance into ...