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One would think that there are enough number (or infinite!) of things to marvel at in this world. Sure but leading them is the confounding - yup, highly perplexing - is the order in chaos:  Like the atoms and the smallest matter ever - quarks - and how everything is made up of the same stuff with the small (vast) difference being in their electron numbers. But that's a piece for another day! Today one would like to talk about Pi and Phi. The Pi or pi is also known as 'Archimedes Constant. Go figure!  The Pi which is a Greek letter was used by Euler in early 1700. But it was discovered by the Babylonians in 200 - 4000 BCE. The Chinese and Indians too claim discovery and the jury is still out on this but it is a a certainty that Pi is true and it is true by 3.17..... with the decimals leading to infinity!   π “Probably no symbol in mathematics has evoked as much mystery, romanticism, misconception and human interest as the number pi”  ~William L. Schaaf, Nature and His...

Richard A. Dumas : A  corollary:  There's many a slip twixt the grasp and the  grip. Many would assume that a corollary is the opposite of something. I thought so too, in school because some theorems had a corollary.   But it's just an assumption, a preposition. It could also be applied as a reciprocal. But hold on. It is not. Anyway, that aside let us look at some of the well known adages: We know that the early bird get the worm. It could also mean the early worm gets caught. I can imagine most smart alecs are smirking thinking they can get away with anything. I have wondered about this adage in particular: The road to hell is paved with good intentions. So does it mean that the road to heaven is paved with bad intentions? I can see that many would be be apt to agree. The world is full of such people. But no! That's a vehement no! We are looking at the sentence as a whole and coming to our own conclusion. What it means is that good intentions are not enough. W...

                            What’s Content Marketing all about? Or why your  Content Strategy  should take precedence over marketing Strategy? As a former journalist I adhered firmly to the belief that content was King. Indeed it was - the better and more value our news had, the better the sales of our newspapers. Content made all the difference between success and failure. That was in the early 1990s. And I now ponder why it took marketers another 20 years to actually come up with the terminology of content marketing. Yes, when Joe Pulizzi formally founded the Content Marketing Institute, in 2010, he was being astute as much as it had to do with common sense. But let’s give credit where it is due and appreciate Joe for his remarkable venture that now is the leader in content marketing consultancy. For those who are feeling left out, let me start from the beginning with a definition by the aforementioned ins...

Its a good thing they are making a movie of Shakuntala Devi. She is a mathematical wiz who understood the magic of numbers. Could be interesting to see her story. There are plenty of geniuses there who have revealed the magic of numbers. Another Indian- Bobby Seagull is, despite his English sounding name (he is a British Citizen!) he is originally or native to Kerala, India.   But first, here's what little I know of numbers. They are magical. One almost believes that there must be God. The advent of the Arabic numbers finally put the Roman numbers to rest. It was easier to say 1,2, 3 then I, II,III, though it is still used. (Remember 2K?) But you who have been welded to numbers since birth what do you get when  you add the numbers 1+2+3 .. till 10. I can see you counting now: Let me make it easier for you. The number is is 55. What do you get when you add 1+2+3 up to 100. Gotcha!  Simple really. Elementary, it always is when explained. The atomic  magic numbers...

The little girl stood afar from the group, clutching her certificate, desolation writ on her face. She was withholding the tears that threatened to breach the dam behind her eyes. Then her father was in front of her and he lifted her and hugged her tightly. The little girl all of eight, heaved a sigh of relief and wrapped her hands around her daddy. "Congratulations  my angel, you did it!" "No, I didn't!" The girl whispered in his ears. The man put her down and looked at her into her eyes. It twinkled with the unshod tears. "Now, now ...  you are being hard on yourself."  The girl was silent looking at the winner who was grinning and smiling. Victory was nice. "What did I tell you about Success?"  Daddy asked her. "It is a road not a destination." "That is brilliant. What is the opposite of Success?" "Fail...  No wait... giving up!" "You are a smart girl.../what is the opposite of that... " "Not gi...

Reta eased her running, slowing the treadmill, as she let her muscles relax in relief. Two minutes later she went back to her mat and continued to do her cooling down stretch exercises, nimbly extending her legs and arms as far as she could. Then she lay still, flat on her back on the yoga mat, the exposed part of her body – only her face and palms, glistening with the sweat she had worked up. When she had started, it had been cold. So she was dressed appropriately. She was wearing a black seamless lurex pullover and a high-waisted legging with her feet ensconced in a Nike running shoes. She lay for a few minutes savouring the rush of the warm blood course through her taut veins as her muscles relaxed after a two hour long onslaught. Her reverie broke only when she heard her phone buzz for the umpteenth time. She never picked up the phone when she was working out and all her contacts knew her routine. She sighed contentedly and stood up and walked over and picked up the phone f...

I must have been 17 when I first coined this principle which I advocated among my friends. Nirmal Kumar was one of them. Today in a phone conversation he reminded me of this and I wondered whether 38 years later I still adhered to the thought. I do. Give it time. Everything turns out good. If it doesn't, you will get used to it. That's the power of time. But, everything .... whatever happens, does happen for good. So believe in it.