In yet another book club meet at Urban Solace, I met India’s first Mills ‘n Boon author who has also written the novel,“Tick-tock, we’re 30”. The book is about a group of friends who are turning thirty. It’s a book about love, friendship, growing up, and dealing with the demons […]
I made my way to Leaping Windows cafe in Indira Nagar at 4 pm on Saturday, 2nd November 2013, to attend the “Making of the Hyderabad Graphic Novel” by author Jai Undurti. I’ve not read a graphic novel so far, but after attending this session, my curiosity is sufficiently piqued […]
Meeting Vasudev Murthy, the author of ‘Sherlock Holmes in Japan’, at the Urban Solace book club meet was an interesting experience simply because Vasudev has so many interests of his own: violin, teaching, consulting, animal rights, yoga, and travelling (to quote from his twitter handle – @dracula99.) He’s called his […]
On 8 September 2013, I went to attend the book discussion of ‘Men on my mind’ by Radha Thomas at Urban Solace, Ulsoor. This was my second visit to this charming cafe that clearly lives up to its name. I’d been here earlier for the book discussion of “Days of […]
The importance of good grammar has been underscored time and again by linguaphiles. How can you improve yours? What does it take to be a skilful editor? A good command of the language is something you acquire quite naturally if you’ve been an avid reader. Constant exposure to the language, […]
In today’s competitive business scenario, organizations have learned that to stay ahead, they need to keep their employees motivated. One of the ways in which they do this is through employee engagement initiatives. Engaged employees are productive, involved, and committed to the organization. They are not likely to be constantly […]
Did something new today. Went for a book club meet at Urban Solace@ Ulsoor Lake, Bangalore. My first ever book club meet. It was a book reading session with a Q& A at the end, giving people an opportunity to interact with the writer. ‘Days of Gold and Sepia’ by […]
The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2012 annual report for this blog. Here’s an excerpt: The new Boeing 787 Dreamliner can carry about 250 passengers. This blog was viewed about 1,800 times in 2012. If it were a Dreamliner, it would take about 7 trips to carry that many […]
MSTP is a valuable resource for technical writers and editors. You can download it from this site: http://www.tdrs-us.com/ It is listed there as MSTP.CHM When you download it to your computer, it will be a zipped file. When you unzip it and try to use it, if you see ‘Page […]
See the following link and you’ll know: http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/597/1/
