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It’s a happy world
There is a story behind every creation, one that leads to the shaping of something brilliant, something that makes your life easier. What now appear as little icons on your mobile phone — what we casually term as apps — were once ideas that came from wanting to make life easier, and bring people closer.
An idealist in a practical, harsh world
It was while attending a seminar that Sudha Murty got the idea of writing House of Cards, a novel circling the life of an idealistic woman from a Karnataka village. She had then heard a case study from a psychiatric hospital presented in the seminar.
A tale of silent dreams
Krishna Murali, director of the short film Let Me, spends most of his days at coffee shops with a laptop in front of him. It is in these coffee shops, that his stories are formed. Suraj Khan, his friend took it up as the first venture of his Lifeclick Productions.
What the hack!
Having already written 14 books on hacking, Faster 100 Ways To Improve Your Digital Life, Ankit Fadia’s latest book offers straightforward pointers.
An artist’s heartfelt mission
What happened to the elephant that was beheaded to give Lord Ganesh a head? What happened to the head of the child Ganesh that Lord Shiva had struck off in anger?
Songs from the soul
Shobin Kannangattu’s life was changed by a freak bike accident 11 years ago. But adversity turned to creativity and he poured his heart out in words.
Celluloid dreams come true for her
Singer M. Vijayalakshmi, who has a congenital problem with her vision, tasted success with her hit song in the film Celluloid. Her song Katte Katte, was on everybody’s lips even before the release of the film.
Pedalling to strike chord with youth
He has never owned a car or a motorbike. It has always been bicycles for Srinivasa Chowdary Alluri, to school, college and work. Even when he found a software job in London, he cycled his way to office and back. He once rode from London to New Delhi, covering 11,350 km spread over 109 days.
Campaign is Kurian’s canvas
As a 15-year-old schoolboy, he raised slogans and waged a fight to solve the drinking water problem in Kuttanad, and then to demand more boats in the flood-ridden Kavalam Panchayat where he grew up. Social work, to Thomas Kurian, was both an obsession and a serious pursuit in his life.
