The Design Thinking Way of Business

The BBC News documentary ‘Jugaad Man- The Non-stop Inventor’ is a recognition of Assam’s pride, Innovator and Inventor, Padma Shri awardee Dr Uddhab Kumar Bharali. The word ‘Jugaad’ is uniquely Indian. Oxford English dictionary has officially accepted ‘Jugaad’ as a noun which….

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The Terrace

Spending time on the terrace had become a habit and is more a ritual these days since the pandemic began overtaking our lives. The openness of the few feet of space on the rooftop seems to encompass an entire universe, witnessed from a vantage position…..

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A High School Anecdote

This is an incident that happened to us when we were students of Class-X. One day our class teacher Sri Jogendra Narayan Devchoudhury Sir walked into the class room with a visibly angry and irritated look, holding the attendance register in his right hand.

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The Making and Unmaking of Our Stories

In a stellar, illuminating talk I watched online some years ago, the enormously talented writer from Nigeria, Chimamanda Ngozie Adichie spoke of the perils of colonialism and how it shapes and inhibits thought and thinking in the colonised societies, much to the detriment of the native, indigenous culture

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