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A story of courage
Faith, hope, courage, determination, optimism, kindness, love and many such qualities put together are at core of the human spirit. The now-famous Marathi film Shwaas is based on a true story of human spirit. Shwaas won the Swarna Kamal for the best feature film of 2003 at the 51st National Film Awards held at New Delhi last month. Child actor Ashwin Chitale, who plays little Parshuram afflicted with Retinoblastoma, a rare cancer of the eyes, won the award for best …
Vitamin King
On his early life and his foray interest in Vitamin technology I was born in Karachi, Pakistan in 1931. After partition, my family moved to India. In Pakistan, my father ran one of the biggest wholesale and retail pharmacies of the time. In 1956, after my B.Pharm, I left the Indian shores and went to London for higher education. There I acquired a post-graduate degree in pharmacy before proceeding to Germany for my doctorate in Medicinal Chemistry. After a brief …
Managing without managers
Two decades ago, Ricardo Semler, a 24-year-old graduate from Harvard Business School, embraced an egalitarian approach to business management and transformed an ailing company into a flourishing one. When Ricardo took over the realms of Semler and Company, a Brazilian manufacturing business from his father, the country’s economy was going through a recession and had hit the company’s sales particularly hard. The company was in mayhem and on the brink of bankruptcy. Ricardo had never agreed with the autocratic management …
No more striving
Dr. Wayne Dyer, best-selling author of the book “Your Erroneous Zones” and a renowned psychotherapist, says that the secret of success lies in detachment. This phenomenon is often visible in the context of sports events, when a player, attached to the outcome of winning the game, often ends up on the losing side. On September 19, 2001 state-level selection tournaments for Badminton were held at the Mulund Gymkhana. Meenakshi Wagh, a seasoned Badminton player from Thane, was one of the …
Paperback Dreams
In 1998, a Mumbai based journalist suddenly suffered a thought transformation. The result was that at the peak of his reporting career, he gave it up for something quite unconventional. B Mahesh, a full time journalist, left his secure job and founded a bookstore. After two years of taking that bold step, Mahesh has absolutely no regrets. He is pleased with his decision of abandoning journalism altogether. For 12 long years, he had applied himself diligently to his work. He …