[success]Full Name: Steve Paul Jobs Date of Birth: 24th Feb 1955 Place of Birth: San Francisco[/success]Steve's childhood was unlike your regular childhood - his biological parents Simpson and Abdulfattah Jandali were unwed college graduates and had him adopted by Paul and Clara Jobs of the Bay area (Mountain view- California).Steve grew up in the apricot o..
March 29th, 2011
The cover story of February’s Newsweek was about George Clooney and how his work at the ground level has impacted the lives of many in Sudan. Clooney is not one to make a hue and cry of his work, and yet one cannot deny its magnificence and his perseverance in doing the job of a "celebrity statesman". The sexiest man alive has very subtly directed the world’s attention to where it is needed the most.The following are j..
March 22nd, 2011
2010 was an eventful year. It was like a wild party where chaos prevailed and collectively, we humans acted thoughtlessly. Its not that the human race witnessed something spectacular, unprecedented in history. But that is the point. Like every other year, we saw a repetition of the mistakes we made the previous year. Just for example, what real progress did we make in Cancun in 2010, from the summit in Copenhagen in 2009? ..
February 14th, 2011
Everyone loves the guy who knows secrets. Especially secrets meant to take big organizations down. And especially if he is willing to leak those secrets. These are precisely the emotions that Julian Assange of Wikileaks is cashing in on. This 39 year old, born in Townsville, Queensland, Australia has a thrilling story as his life. His parents initially ran a theater company and he changed 35 schools and had moved 30 times ev..
January 5th, 2011
One of the greatest ironies of our race and its intelligence is that though we advice balance as the ideal way to conduct one's thought, it takes obsession to produce a genius, indelibly change the course of human life and have your name imprinted in history. Karl Benz's life is one of the most conspicuous examples of how one man's will can change the way we perceive our world.Born on November 25th, 1844 in Karl..
November 25th, 2010
Amongst those whose names are celebrated as leaders of women’s liberation, few would agree that Coco Chanel deserves a place. But perhaps those who know the nature of Chanel’s designs would be votaries of this idea. In an age, in which women wore corsets with heavily embroidered dresses in striking colours, Chanel represented emancipation from discomfort with a chic simplicity impeccably blended with sophistication. She wa..
October 23rd, 2010
Humans seem to attach a lot of importance to soil, especially the soil of their birth and its change and growth. In his book Istanbul – the City and Memoirs, Orhan Pamuk says that there are 2 kinds of people - people like Salman Rushdie and VS Naipaul who find solace in transcending between cultures, and others like the author himself, whose salvation is attached to the city they have spent their lives in, and most ..
September 17th, 2010
There are certain people who leave a mark such that even after they have stopped playing the game, they are always remembered for times to come. Apart from their having such an impact, what seems to be important is the effect they still have on people. Diego Maradona is a name that has been immortalized in football history, not only for the gifted player that he was, but also for his knack of finding himself in precarious si..
June 29th, 2010
“It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife. However little known the feelings or views of such a man may be on his first entering a neighbourhood, this truth is so well fixed in the minds of the surrounding families, that he is considered as the rightful property of some one or other of their daughters.” – Jane Austen, Chapter I, Pride and Prejudic..
June 11th, 2010
The extremities of human nature never fail to amaze us. Good and evil, anger and passivity, love and hate- they all are woven into the fabric of our humanness. But of all the extremes, evil bewilders us the most, and sometimes, overpowered by fits of sanctimoniousness and engulfed by our ideologies, we unleash immense horror upon fellow human beings. Such is the story of Adolf Hitler. He was a man who was born to achieve great..
April 5th, 2010
