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Eleven Books, One Story

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Five Books + 6 Chapters (in six different books) "There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed. "- Ernest Hemingway My Journey as Writer My journey as a writer (or rather poet) began with a Hindi poem  in 1985 as a school student. For a long fifteen years I only wrote poetry except a piece or two of prose. I   began writing magazine articles around 2001 and blogs around 2010. I had became a published author in 2007, when a case study written by me was included in a reputed book "Marketing in the New Global Order" (edited by IIM Indore Professor Tapan K Panda) In the past decade, I have written 5 books (and 6 chapters in 6 books) about diverse subjects. Obviously some people feel surprised by the range of topics I have written about and ask me about my focus area.  When I took a deeper look, I realised the common thread in my books and contributions has been storytelling. The Books My first book, "From News ...

Dr Karan Singh & Alan Jacobs-Uncovering Our Greatness

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Two Opinions on Uncovering Our Greatness This is a monthly column on uncovering our greatness, co-authored by Michael Thallium from Spain (who talks about a great human being from Eastern part of the world) and Dr Amit Nagpal from India (who talks about a great human being from Western part of the world). We aim to share the success stories of great human beings and wish to inspire the readers to uncover their greatness too. -------------------------- Michael Thallium, Spain http://www.michaelthallium.com/en/thallium-vitae/ Dr Karan Singh-Amalgamating the Best of East and West To me the presentation of the book The Seven Joys Of Life by Amit Nagpal was the introduction to a person I had never heard of: Dr Karan Singh ( www.karansingh.com ). I did not have the chance to travel to India for that presentation and meet both my friend Amit Nagpal and Dr Karan Singh. I remember by that time, by the beginning of August of this year 2012 which is finishing in a couple of hou...