Still experts are not able to find what was the main quality which made him so incredibly brilliant and successful. He not only changed the way people use technology, but also he changed movies, music, animation,  retail shopping and much more. His entrepreneur skills were some of the best the world has seen, which is why Fortune magazine declared Steve Jobs ‘The Greatest Entrepreneur of Our Time’ in their ranking of the top 12 entrepreneurs of recent memory. Fortume magazine has described Steve Jobs as the generation’s quintessential, visionary, inspiring, brilliant and Mercurial entrepreneur. Infosys co-founder Narayana Murthy is at tenth place in this list.
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Resul Pookutty is an Academy Award winner Indian film sound designer, sound editor and mixer. He, along with Richard Pryke and Ian Tapp won the Academy Award for Best Sound Mixing for the film Slumdog Millionaire. Besides working for south Indian films, he has also worked in both Hollywood and Bollywood. He is a 1995 graduate from Film and Television Institute of India, Pune. Last week, he addressed the 2012 batch of students at IIM-Kozhikode at their convocation ceremony and made a very  inspiring speech. I am sharing the transcript of that speech.

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Kudankulam Atomic Power Project is a nuclear power station, which is under construction in Koodankulam in Tirunelveli, Tamil Nadu. These days, this project is in headlines due to anti-nuclear protests by the locals and People’s Movement Against Nuclear Energy, an anti-nuclear power group which is trying to close the Kudankulam Nuclear Power Plant site and to preserve the largely untouched coastal landscape, as well as educate locals about nuclear power. S. P. Udayakumar, a writer and social activist, is heading this protest. Udaykumar and his supporters are carrying out hunger strikes, rallies, public meetings, seminars, conferences, and other demonstrations such as shaving their heads, cooking on the street, burning the models of the nuclear plants. But why these people are dead against this nuclear project? Today we will try to find its answer.

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Last week, while presenting the rail Budget, Dinesh Trivedi, the Rail Minister of India, took a bold step and for the first time in last 10 years, announced the hike in passenger fares, ranging from 2 paise to 30 paise per kilometre. He said that this hike is necessary to implement safety features in Indian railways along with network expansion and modernisation. The fare hike was vehemently opposed by his own party’s chair person, Mamata Banerjee. Other party leaders Sudeep Bandyopadhyay and Derek O’Brien also expressed their disagreement. Mamata Banerjee wrote to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh asking him to dismiss Dinesh Trivedi as Minister of Railways and give the portfolio to Mukul Roy. However, the rail budget received support from the general public, industry groups and all five Rail Unions.

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Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi has got featured on the cover page of the latest issue of Time magazine. Time magazine has praised him in a cover page article for development of Gujarat, which he has been ruling for almost 10 years. The cover of the Time magazine’s March 26 issue features Modi, with the caption: “Modi means business but can he lead India”. In the article “Boy from the backyard”, Narendra Modi has been described as a “controversial, ambitious and shrewd politician”. However the article also says Modi is a firm, “no-nonsense leader” who can steer India out of a “mire of chronic corruption and inefficiency”. For the first time any regional leader of India has been featured on Time’s cover.

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According to Business Insider, Congress President and UPA Chairperson Sonia Gandhi is the fourth richest politician in the world. Her assets are expected to be worth $2-19 billion (Rs 10,000-95,000 crore). She is at the fourth place after the Saudi king, the Sultan of Brunei and Michael Bloomberg, New York’s mayor. Pakistan’s president Asif Ali Zardari is at 19th position. The website names OpenSecrets.org, Forbes.com, Bloomberg.com, Wikipedia.org and Guardian.co.uk as its sources.  However, she in the 2009 general elections had declared her assets worth Rs 50-75 lakh.

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Obesity has become a common problem all around the world. This, in turn, has led to so many other diseases like diabetes, heart problems, blood pressure, teeth problems, allergies and many more. Most of the problem in the body arises due to our unhealthy eating habits. Although all of us realize the importance of healthy food, very few of us are actually able to make this transition. Even though we start a healthy eating plan, many of us fail to stick to it and give in to our temptations sooner or later. Here are few ways to make your transition easier and help you to stick to it.

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Samajwadi Party has registered a thumping victory in 2012 UP Assembly elections by winning record 224 seats. This is the best performance by any political party since 1985. Mayawati is now out of power. Her party Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) has managed to get only 80 seats. The Congress, which was hoping to do miracles after Rahul Gandhi’s extensive campaigning in 207 constituencies, has got only 28 seats. The BJP, also has very decimal performance with only 47 seats. Rahul Gandhi and Digvijay Singh have already taken responsibility for the party’s flop show in Uttar Pradesh assembly elections. The national parties failed to convince the voters that they are in a position to defeat Bahujan Samaj Party.

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Mahatma Gandhi does not need any introduction, at least in India. He was the pre-eminent political and ideological leader of India during the Indian independence movement. He was the first man in the world history who used the method of non-violent resistance against the tyrannical foriegn rule. Gandhi not only led India to its independence but also inspired several movements for civil rights and freedom across the world. He lived modestly in a self-sufficient residential community and wore the traditional Indian dhoti and shawl, woven with yarn he had hand spun on a charkha. He ate simple vegetarian food, and also undertook long fasts as means of both self-purification and social protest. I am going to share 15 rarest of the rare photos of Mahatma Gandhi.

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When I was in my teens, I used to be fascinated by the stories of Independence movement, nehruvian and post-liberalisation era. I have had great respect for Congress Party and the Gandhi family. But gradually I lost my soft corner towards India’s oldest political party and the first family. Now I no longer admire Congress and its policies. Just to name a few, Congress’ unequivocal support for religious reservations, weak foreign policy, lack of willingness to solve Kashmir issue, unquestionable loyalty to the Nehru-Gandhi family, attempts to create an Orwellian regime of censorship, vendetta and propaganda by their non-stop bashing of right-wing. We must not forget, it was the Congress Party which imposed emergency in India. Not let’s come to the point. What is the alternative to Congress in India? Definitely, the alternative to left-center should be the right-center, but how?

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