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Savio's Book Review: The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference - Malcolm Gladwell
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Thoughts Of A Guy. Monday, August 12, 2013. The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference - Malcolm Gladwell. The Tipping Point is the first book of Malcolm Gladwell. The book as explores in Gladwell own words "How Ideas and products and messages and behaviors spread like viruses do." The examples of such changes in his book include the rise in popularity and sales of Hush Puppies shoes in the mid-1990s and the steep drop in the New York City crime rate after 1990. The Law of the few.
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Savio's Book Review: Midnight's Children - Salman Rushdie
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Thoughts Of A Guy. Thursday, February 21, 2013. Midnight's Children - Salman Rushdie. Midnight's Children is considered to be Salman Rushdie's masterpiece; it won the Booker Prize, and then, in 1993, it won the 'Booker of Bookers', ie the best book to have won the Booker Prize in the first 25 years of the award. The book begins with the story of the Sinai family, particularly with events leading up to India's Independence and Partition. Saleem is born precisely at midnight, August 15, 1947, therefore...
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Savio's Book Review: Outliers: The Story of Success - Malcolm Gladwell
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Thoughts Of A Guy. Monday, August 19, 2013. Outliers: The Story of Success - Malcolm Gladwell. This is the second book of Malcolm Gladwell I am reading. The first one being Tipping Point in which he had explored how some ideas grow rapidly and become popular. In this Book "Outliers: The Story of Success" Gladwell explores the factors that contribute to success. He talks about the discrepancy between how many days per year American children spend in school (180) versus Asian students (280), and how many m...
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Savio's Book Review: Train to Pakistan - Khushwant Singh
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Thoughts Of A Guy. Thursday, September 18, 2014. Train to Pakistan - Khushwant Singh. Khushwant Singh deals with the struggles an ordinary Indian faced at the time of Independence by the way of a smile story based in the fictional village of Mano Majra. An village where the words Partition or Independence doesn't mean much to the Sikhs and Muslims living there. A situation that rapidly changes with the murder of a hindu moneylender, Ram Lal. The ending of the novel is disappointing when you read it. ...
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Savio's Book Review: Asura Tale Of The Vanquished - Anand Neelakantan
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Thoughts Of A Guy. Thursday, November 20, 2014. Asura Tale Of The Vanquished - Anand Neelakantan. History is made by the victors, the story of the losing side is never told. I picked up Anand Neelkantan's "Asura Tale Of The Vanquished" thinking it would be fun to read Ramayana from Ravana's point of view. But I was sorely disappointed by the book. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Asura Tale Of The Vanquished - Anand Neelakantan. Blog Maintained by Savio Jose Vaniapura.
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Savio's tales: April 2014
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Thoughts of A Guy. Sunday, April 6, 2014. It had been a wet Mumbai monsoon day but unlike the times before, Sion was not completely under water yet. However, reports of water logging around the city were coming in. Sri Ram travels was having a slow day. “Who in his right mind would want to travel in this weather? 8221; I mused while alternating between watching the hands of a clock seemed to be paused at 5:30 and the rain pouring outside. 8220;Hi, Can I get a seat on the 6 pm bus to Rameshwaram? 8220;Sir...
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Savio's tales: Promises are meant to be broken
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Thoughts of A Guy. Wednesday, March 30, 2011. Promises are meant to be broken. 8220;Happy birthday Grandpa! 8221; said Sneha walking into Dr. Agarwal’s room “75 cool! And still going strong, what’s your secret? 8221; “Thanks dear, the Secret! It’s no drinking, no smoking and definitely no sex before marriage” “Grandpa! 8221; Agarwal smiles. “Ok! Let’s make a deal, you quit drinking everyday and I will stop drinking and smoking, what say? 8221; taking Sneha’s hand Agarwal replies “Deal”. 8220;Hi come in!
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Savio's tales: March 2011
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Thoughts of A Guy. Wednesday, March 30, 2011. Promises are meant to be broken. 8220;Happy birthday Grandpa! 8221; said Sneha walking into Dr. Agarwal’s room “75 cool! And still going strong, what’s your secret? 8221; “Thanks dear, the Secret! It’s no drinking, no smoking and definitely no sex before marriage” “Grandpa! 8221; Agarwal smiles. “Ok! Let’s make a deal, you quit drinking everyday and I will stop drinking and smoking, what say? 8221; taking Sneha’s hand Agarwal replies “Deal”. 8220;Hi come in!
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Savio's tales: February 2011
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Thoughts of A Guy. Monday, February 21, 2011. 8220;Hey, Alan! Did you read this” asked Marcy waving the Times as she walked into the lab set up by her husband in the basement. Dr. Alan shook his head more interested in the insertion he was doing into a lab mice than in anything else. Marcy shaking her head while watching her husband poking something into a mice said” Wait! I will read it out for you,. Some kind of wires, what are you doing? 8220;So you are telling me these mice can be controlled by you t...
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Savio's Book Review: January 2013
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Thoughts Of A Guy. Saturday, January 12, 2013. Last Man In Tower - Aravind Adiga. Last Man In Tower is the second book of Aravind Adiga I reading after The White Tiger. I had liked The White Tiger and had picked "Last Man In Tower" with a lot of hope and am happy to say Aravind Adiga didn't disappoint me. Last Man in Tower explores how money changes people? How far would people go for the sake of money? It pushes us to think does the convictions of one man out weigh the consensus of the many? Arvind lets...
