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Eluded emotions

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In Sociopath,  confessions of a wife, mother and cat-choker having dark urges of stealing for thrills, joyrides, and gate-crashing at strangers’ funerals  – all a fascinating first-hand account of antisocial personality disorder. After the pencil attack she decided to steer clear of violence- not because she felt bad but because it attracted too much attention. She resolved  to finding ways of dealing with her anxiety that would allow her to fly beneath the radar. Named as the most anticipated book of 2024 by Vulture, LitHub, The Guardian, and Cosmopolitan. A fascinating and revelatory memoir revealing the author’s struggle to come to terms with … Continue reading Eluded emotions

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Revival of old dreams: unfinished love story  with America

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Doris Kearns, one of America’s most beloved historians, a genuine public intellectual whose writings were inspected by fellow scholars but also weigh on public policy and popular culture. Her history of Abraham Lincoln’s cabinet, Team of Rivals, won academic prizes, and even influenced Barack Obama, who cited it after including a former primary opponent ( Hillary Clinton) and a member of the outgoing Republican administration (Robert Gates) in his national security team.  In an Unfinished Love Story, she artfully weaves together biography, memoir, and history and takes you along on the emotional journey she and her husband Richard (Dick) Goodwin … Continue reading Revival of old dreams: unfinished love story  with America

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“Rage” inspiring tragedies

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Stephen King who earned the title of King of Horror after publishing novels like It, Pet Sematary, Carrie and The Shining, has asked for his latest book to go out of publication because of the controversy it generated. A high school student Charlie Decker, who after an incident that sent his chemistry teacher to the hospital and insulting the principal led to his expulsion, took a pistol from his locker and shot his Algebra teacher while holding his classmates hostage. Over the next two decades several number of shooting incidents took place at high schools across the US. On several … Continue reading “Rage” inspiring tragedies

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Author whitewashed from history of colonialism and its aftermath

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A gripping literary mystery which unravels the fascinating life of a maligned Black author, based on Yamboi Ouologuem. In 2018, Diegane Latyr Faye, a young Senegalese writer in Paris discovers a legendary book. In 1938, a novel called Labyrinth of Inhumanity ws praised as “the masterpiece of a young African Negro, but due to some obscure scandal, the book disappeared without a trace along with its author, who was TC Elimane. No one knows what became of its author, once hailed as the “Black Rimbad” the book caused a scandal. Enthralled by this mystery Diegane decides to search for TC … Continue reading Author whitewashed from history of colonialism and its aftermath

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Bad Behaviour on campus

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A debut novel about Helen, a graduate student who follows her disgraced mentor to a university that gives safe harbour to scholars of ill repute, igniting a crisis of work and a test of her conscience and marriage. Helen is one of the brightest minds of her generation, a young physicist on a path to solve high-temperature superconductivity which could perhaps save the planet. When she discovers that her brilliant adviser is involved in a sex scandal, Helen is torn, should she give ump on her work with him? Or should she accompany him to a controversial university, founded by … Continue reading Bad Behaviour on campus

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STEVE WRIGHT – CHAMPION OF THE BBC’S AIRWAVES DIES AT 69

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“Wrighty” had four decades on Radio One and Radio Two and also hostednumerous Top of The Pops programmes. He once flew to New York andbooked into a hotel and listened to local radio stations to garner good materialand concepts for his own shows. His amazing sense of humour was popularlyregarded as “zany”.Recently he had been on a weight loss journey, his heaviest weight havingbeen 18 stone and he was trying to achieve 12 stone. He was married forfourteen years to Cyndi Robinson and the couple had two children – Tom andLucy. “Wrighty” was said to have been a multimillionaire. Tom … Continue reading STEVE WRIGHT – CHAMPION OF THE BBC’S AIRWAVES DIES AT 69

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Formula for living your best life

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Communication is superpower and the best communicators understand that whenever we speak, we’re actually participating in one of the three conversations practical, (What’s this really about) , emotional (How do we feel?), and social (Who are we?). If you don’t know what kind of conversation you’re having, you’re unlikely to connect. Supercommunicators know the importance of recognising  and then matching each kind of conversation, and how to hear the complex emotions, subtle negotiations, and deeply held belief that colour so much of what we say and how we listen. Our experiences, our values, our emotional lives and how we see … Continue reading Formula for living your best life

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How British Empire was propped up for financial survival

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Sir John Henry Rivett-Carnac wrote about his company house in his memoirs “ a quite magnificent house on the Ganges at Ghazipur, surrounded by a good garden and fine grounds”. The incentives of this job was the Benares Opium Agency that Sir John headed from 1876. When the poppy  growing season got under way in November, Sir John would embark on a grand regional tour, interspersing inspections of opium farms with shooting expeditions and visits to colourful bazars, despite the poor Indian farmers under his watch, who fed Gizarpur’s opium processing factory who were coerced into cultivating the crop to … Continue reading How British Empire was propped up for financial survival

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Life of abuse at Goldman Sachs

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Jamie Flore Higgins, one of the few women at the highest ranks of Goldman Sachs, spurred on by the obligation to her working-class immigrant family, rose through the ranks and saw it all: out-of-control, lavish parties flowing with never-ending drinks, affairs flouted in the office, rampant drug abuse, and most pervasively, a discriminatory culture that seemed designed to hold back the few women and people of colour employed at the company. Flore Higgins reveals Goldman Sachs having the right talking points and statistics, which provided a veneer to cover up what she found to be an abusive culture. Her account … Continue reading Life of abuse at Goldman Sachs