Catharsis, Brooding, Brad Bushman

If you work hard on some project and your boss instead of appreciating hard work starts criticizing you, then you are bound to feel angry. Now how do you handle this emotion? Usually you either bottle up emotion or brood over it. “A bottler is someone who tends to push emotion aside. They might say, …

Marie Jahoda, Mental Health, Marienthal

“When a cat or a dog disappears, the owner no longer bothers to report the loss; he knows that someone must have eaten the animal, and he does not want to find out who”. -Maire Jahoda, Marienthal Marie Jahoda was British social psychologist. She came up with theory of mental health. According her a mentally …

Kabban Mirza, Raziya Sultana and Jamal ud Din Yakut

Raziya Sultana was ruler of Delhi Sultanate. Military of Sultanate was dominated by Turks. Jamal ud Din  was Abyssinian slave who under Raziya’s regime became noble. Turkish nobles were unhappy with female ruler and rise of Abyssinian slave. To defame her they started spreading rumour that Raziya was having affair with Yakut. The rumour spread …

Pandurang Khankhoje, Diego Rivera, Tina Modotti

Pure your gentle name, pure your fragile life,     bees, shadows, fire, snow, silence and foam,     combined with steel and wire and     pollen to make up your firm     and delicate being. -Pablo Neruda’s epitaph for Tina Modotti Pandurang Khankhoje was student of Neil City High School in Mahal area of Nagpur. As …

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Competition, Cooperation and Fairness

Nitin Nohria in his book Driven talks about humans having four basic drives- acquiring, bonding, learning, defending. Drive to acquire motivates us to acquire things both material and non material ( ex. Power and Status), drive to bond make us form relationship with people, our drive to learn make us explore things and drive to …

Innovation, Malaria, Eddy Agbo

“We worked for seven years to develop and validate the UMT, in a sense – a lifetime. There were many bumps on the way, but we set our focus on the ultimate goal and continued to be driven by the compelling impact that this would have on malaria control, globally. We pressed harder, worked smarter, …

Innovation, Indomie Noodles, Tolaram Group

“During its seven decades, Tolaram has ventured into about 100 businesses, about 75 percent failed, but the one in four that succeeded made up for it.” - Sajen Aswani, CEO Tolaram Group In 1988 Nigeria was under rule of military dictator Ibrahim Badamasi Babangida, his regime was ridden with corruption. Majority of people were poor. …