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On Risk

19-Mar-07

Here’s a nice poem to which I was introduced last week during a lecture for the course “Managing People and Performance” by Prof. N M Agarwal :

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Quote of the Day

14-Dec-06

Via /usr/games/fortune :
The heart has its reasons which reason knows nothing of.
– Blaise Pascal

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Preventing Kaavya

05-May-06

So Kaavya Viswanathan got caught, leaving the respected publishers red-faced. What can be done to prevent such incidents in the future ? How about using Google Book Search to check that the text has not been lifted from somewhere ? Sorry .. that is not possible: the publishers are against google. Too bad…

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