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Rants & Opinions

1] Indian Idol is as entertaining as Harry Potter is; as much for the judges' fights as for the extremely talented singers' performances. 2] Soha Ali Khan is absolutely gorgeous looking - I am her fan. ( Ahista Ahista - a simple, slow movie). 3] 'Khosla ka Ghosla' is one of the most humorous movies, I have watched in the recent past, watched it a second time few days back. 4] Equally humorous is The Pink Panther (new version starring Steve Martin) - hilarious. 1] Monitoring of employees' personal blogs, prevalent these days across the world, is quite obnoxious in my opinion. 2] Office politics and nasty jerks at work are a source of loss of productivity and attrition ( McKinsey Quarterly Article ). 3] Just the reverse is also possible - as per Pareto principles 20% of the people can make work greatly interesting and pleasurable. 4] Neuro Linguistic Programming ( NLP ) is a great tool for effectively communicating with people and understanding their behaviours

DIGITAL ART: 'Synaptic outburst @ the neuron'

(c) SHAMIT BAGCHI, July 2007 (Gimp on Linux).

Biblio Trail

The last few books that I have read: 'The High-Performance Entrepreneur' (Subroto Bagchi) - detailed, well developed and valuable inputs and examples on every step for starting up a new venture. 'The McKinsey Mind' (Ethan Rasiel and Paul Friga)- excellent book on the methods used by 'the firm', has loads of insight from ex-alumni. 'Identity and Violence - The Illusion of Destiny' (Amartya Sen) - superlative writing; with the central theme rejecting the definition of a person by a singular identity, for example that of religion only. Amartya Sen, I reiterate, is my favourite non-fiction author. 'Five Point Someone' (Chetan Bhagat) - everyone would have read this by now, I got this using the Citibank loyalty points; never wanted to buy it, but pretty decent first book and quite funny at times (burst out laughing when reading the 'Family Planning advertisement in the cinema hall' part). I am currently reading the following: 'The For