As one who has been a talent management specialist and executive coach for over three decades, L has to be for Learning! To me all progress comes through implementing new learnings, be it in your profession or in your passion. Improvements come about as we learn something new.
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Do you remember some stories from your childhood which have stuck in your mind? For me, one such was the infamous Lindberg kidnap murder case. I read about it in the 60s, possibly in the Reader’s Digest, though I can’t vouch for that. It made a huge impact on me. Continue reading “K for Kidnap”
As a die hard Ian Fleming fan, here’s some news that excites me. Come May 2011, we can expect to see one more re-incarnation, as it were, of James Bond. This will be in a new novel called ” Carte Blanche.”
No, I am talking of job interviews but interviews that we as authors are expected to participate in from time to time. My first interview was with Sravasti Datta of The Hindu. It took place just after Subroto Bagchi launched my debut novel “It Can’t Be You” at The Crosswords in Bangalore on November 29, 2010. She called it “Thrills And Chills”
After F for Facebook and G for Google, I didn’t want H to be for Hacking! I decided to move into another realm altogether. I am settling for a topic which has interested me since I was a kid. As a writer of thrillers, H is for Homicide! Continue reading “H for Homicide!”
If F was for Facebook, then G must be for Google! Young people these days may not really appreciate the value of Google as a search engine because they have used it ever since they can remember. For older people like me, who have lived most of our lives in a world without Google, it means that much more!
If you are scandalized by the title of this post, you aren’t thinking of what I am ! The word that begins with F and ends with K that I have in mind is for something which has changed the way millions of people interact. F is for Facebook:) . Call it the best known face of social networking. Continue reading “F For F……k”
Ask any writer which part of their work they find the most challenging and I wouldn’t at all be surprised if many say it is editing. In my limited experience as an author I have found the process of editing to be both highly exhilarating and utterly frustrating!
In my debut novel “It Can‘t Be You“ Shefali Belliappa is very annoyed with her father Colonel Belliappa for opposing Rashid whom she loves. The Colonel has recently re-married. His bride, a German lady some twenty years younger than him and only four years older than his daughter . Let’s see this extract from the book:
Happy New Year’s Day. My best wishes to you and yours for the best of health and every success. Huh? You might say. Has the clock stopped for this guy? It’s April now and in business terms , we are already one quarter into the new year as per the Gregorian calendar. That’s right but did you know that we in India have more than one New Year’s Day?
Prem Rao : Stories from a Story Teller 