The genius of Hilary Mantel ( 1952 – 2022)
I would have to consider myself fortunate that I decided to pick up Hilary Mantel’s “Wolf hall” from the library[…]
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Category: personalities
Roger Federer – A magical sportsman hangs his boots.
Roger Federer would have never become a Tennis player. It wasn’t as if he was a prodigy, like Tiger Woods,[…]
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Queen Elizabeth II – A life lived with grace, dignity, and poise in the service of her constitutional role.
Queen Elizabeth II was never expected to become the queen. And she would have never become one, if not for[…]
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The art of David McCullough ( 1933 – 2022) – a splendid historian, a towering intellectual, and a consummate stylist of the language
Consider this life : This man lived a rich, meaningful and productive life for eighty-nine years, out of which more[…]
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Breaththroughs, amateurs, and the story of the extraordinary men who ran the four-minute mile
(Note to the reader: I owe the genesis of this essay to four events. A few days ago, I happened[…]
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Shane Warne – a mixture of genius, artistry, and flamboyance
There are moments in sport, when a player, in whom nature has combined the right elements, produces an act that[…]
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Lata Mangeshkar – an extraordinary singing life, and a voice eternal.
Thou wast not born for death, immortal Bird! No hungry generations tread thee down;The voice I hear this passing night was[…]
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The woman who put the man on the Moon, and the birth of software engineering – Margaret Hamilton
On the 20th of July 1969, Apollo II landed successfully on the Moon. It is now a familiar picture in[…]
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Will and Ariel Durant – an extraordinary intellectual journey in letters. A tribute to their life and work.
( Preface: I wrote this piece on October 25th, 2018 in New Jersey. Around forty years ago, between October 23rd[…]
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Robert H Dennard – the IBM Fellow emeritus, and the innovation of Random Access Memory or RAM
As of 2018, out of hundreds of thousands of IBM employees around the globe, only 295 are IBM Fellow Emeritus[…]
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