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The author describes the main subject of his book as "thin-slicing": our ability to gauge what is really important from a very narrow period of experience. In other words, spontaneous decisions are often as good as—or even better than—carefully planned and considered ones. Gladwell draws on examples from science, advertising, sales, medicine, and popular music to reinforce his ideas. Gladwell also uses many examples of regular people's experiences with "thin-slicing." Gladwell explains how an expert's ability to "thin slice" can be corrupted by their likes and dislikes, prejudices and stereotypes (even unconscious ones), and how they can be overloaded by too much information. Gladwell also tells us about our instinctive ability to mind read, which is how we can get to know what emotions a person is feeling just by looking at his or her face. We do that by "thin-slicing," using limited information to come to our conclusion. In what Gladwel

M.V. Kamath, with four decades of rich and varied experiences, has travelled the world with an eye for people and a nose for news. He has met an amazingly wide range of characters from all walks of life — from royalty to Nobel laureates, from film and theatre personalities to statesmen and politicians. His meetings have resulted in this collection of anecdotes — some sad, some outright funny, and some simply staid. His writing in no way borders on gossip, but rather delves into the humanity of each subject. Journalism opened up vast avenues for M.V. Kamath. He lived a life of pleasant surprises, wondering what the next day held for him.. He views both these universal experiences as ephemeral. This fleeting aspect of life binds each anecdote to the other, thus elevating story-telling to a fine art, that doesn’t sound forced or acquired, and comes straight from the heart. The short pieces in this book are a minute collection of material that would probably fill up 10 such books. But the

Harvard symbologist Robert Langdon is summoned at the last minute to deliver an evening lecture in the Capitol Building. Within moments of his arrival, however, a disturbing object – gruesomely encoded with five symbols - is discovered at the epicentre of the Rotunda. It is, He recognises, an ancient invitation, meant to beckon its recipient towards a long-lost world of hidden esoteric wisdom. When Langdon's revered mentor, Peter Solomon – philanthropist and prominent mason – is brutally kidnapped, Langdon realizes that his only hope of saving his friend's life is to accept this mysterious summons and follow wherever it leads him. Langdon finds himself quickly swept behind the façade of America's most powerful city into the unseen chambers, temples and tunnels which exist there. All that was familiar is transformed into a shadowy, clandestine world of an artfully concealed past in which Masonic secrets and never before seen revelations seem to be leading him to a single i

Last Sunday I saw Veer-Zara. And I wondered who is responsible for Indo-Pak tensions. Who is responsible for this cold war? Who is? Now people from both sides want to stop this blood shed. Today all the problems in Pakistan and in India have been caused by our mutual suspicions. How can both the countries progress when massive amount of money is spent to find new ways of destroying each other. People of Pakistan must make sure that there democratically elected civilian must stay. And then they must ask more to do for Indo-Pak relationship. Indian people and Indian Government was never hostile, and never will be hostile to Pakistan. It was Pakistan which tests our patience every time. After all we believe in peace and non-violence. We share just about every thing in common our culture, our history, our freedom struggle, our joy and happiness, and of course our problems. Now when both sides want to rewrite the history then who is stopping us. Perhaps those people for whom power is every

The recent discovery of water on the surface of moon is one out of many examples which proves that by working together we can make those things possible which were long considered to be impossible. And together contribute to the development of mankind. Not by fighting mean wars but by joining hands we can make our world and our lives better. Our history have also proved that whenever different cultures have worked together we have overcome insurmountable problems and whenever we have fought we have only created them. May be our cultures are different, maybe we speak different languages but today our world demands that we join our hands and work together. Only when we join hands together we will be able to solve all of our problems. Can't we all work together and make our world free from war, terrorism and all those things which we as children never wanted to see. And give the coming generations a life free from all these problems. Can't we give them a world much better than wha