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	<title>With the Left and the Right &#187; Novels</title>
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		<title>Three cups of tea</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 27 Apr 2009 15:01:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Srikanth Perinkulam</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The other day I was at the Strand store looking for books on topics that was a bit offbeat when my eyes fell on one that was sandwiched  between two hard bound books. The title read-Three cups of tea. I pull it out idyllically. The front page of its paperback illustrated three kids clad in white shawls intently reading from copies of disheveled books and the subtitle read &#8211; &#8216;One man&#8217;s mission to promote peace one school at a time&#8217;. Intrigued a bit, I turn over the book to see what this was all about and with that brief description &#8211; K2, Karakoram and building schools, I out rightly make my mind to purchase this. I rarely read when I&#8217;m not travelling to and back from work. But believe me, this is one book that&#8217;s kept me hooked to it for quite some time! The topic in hand, the lucid language, Intertwining of mountaineering and his mammoth project &#8211; I&#8217;m not sure which of these made it that gripping. The first chapter scales you up the K2 in Mortenson&#8217;s shoes and as you read through, you&#8217;re literally made to experience his struggle for survival on the towering peaks.  Touched by the hospitality shown by the villagers he makes a promise to change their lives for good. That one promise urges him to start on a project which gains mammoth proportions as time flies by. Through the chapters Relin, the co-author, dramatically brings about how Mortenson  works against the wind to....]]></description>
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		<title>The week that was&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://srikanthperinkulam.com/blog/2009/03/the-week-that-was/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 29 Mar 2009 06:37:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Srikanth Perinkulam</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[GO kiss the world]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[It´s been a long long long week! Looks like the client out there has suddenly decided to catch up on things. Deployments are happening pretty frequently and every team claims to be on fire to push their deployment across. Next week looks to be even more hectic.But guess it´s all a part of sweet sweet life . Caught up with two books this week. How Starbucks saved my life &#8211; Michael Gill One of those simple yet powerful books that I´ve read after Richard Branson´s Losing my Virginity. At 60+, fired by a person whom he himself  had recommended, Michael walks you through his life as he miserably tumults down from the post of a Creative director at an advertising firm JWT. Exposed to the elite corporate lifestyle for 25+ years he brings out the mental stress he passes through having to work in a Starbucks store as a bartender. He soon learns to come to terms with life; learns to let go of his ego and finally builds up a ripe career at Starbucks. Working at Starbucks in the lower rungs of the hierarchial ladder he lucidly brings out what the real sense of Job satisfaction is and how important it is to respect the job you do however menial it is. A perfect five on five! If you´ve still not read this book&#8230;High time you order! Go Kiss the world &#8211; Subroto Bagchi Happened to purchase this book from the Strand store just out of impulse. A quick....]]></description>
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		<title>Keep off the grass!</title>
		<link>http://srikanthperinkulam.com/blog/2009/02/keep-off-the-grass/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Feb 2009 18:41:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Srikanth Perinkulam</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Just another book from an IIM grad. Don&#8217;t these nuts have any work? Five point someone, Joker in the pack and now this? Guess even I&#8217;ve got to start writing on my sulking life in SCSVMV! I was just looking around the racks searching for William Fotheringham&#8217;s &#8216;Put me back on my bike&#8217; when I chance upon &#8216;Keep me off the grass&#8217;. Not finding anything else interesting I decide to give this a shot. Way back home in the bus as I read the first few pages, I start getting queer views from people beside me. I care a damn and am instantly engrossed in the book. Surprisingly, every other page has something or the other that gets you beaming out. Be it the typical &#8216;Collegian&#8217; lingo or the out of the box expressions and language. If &#8216;Joker in the pack&#8217; in someway touched upon the lifestyle in the IIMs, this book in various ways has brought about the other side of it. How true only an insider would be able to judge but for a debut novel this is a kickass hit. The story is woven around an immigrant confused desi Investment banker from the WallStreet coming down to the IIM-B in the pretext of exploring India and reaching out to his roots. Unrealistically hilarious, this debut novel of his would indeed strike a chord amidst any person who&#8217;s graduated from the IIMs or for that instance anyone who&#8217;s experienced college. The pages reek of marijuana and ganja that....]]></description>
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		<title>Losing my Virginity&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://srikanthperinkulam.com/blog/2008/10/losing-my-virginity/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 28 Oct 2008 10:21:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Srikanth Perinkulam</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Whether you&#8217;re a hard core business strategist, a budding entrepreneur, an adventure loyalist or just someone who reads books to while away time, You need to give &#8216;Losing my Virginity&#8217;-Richard Bransons autobiography a read. I picked this book randomly sometime back at a Crossword store in Pune and believe me, this is the best book I&#8217;ve ever read till date. Written in a lucid language, this close to 600 pages book would give you a wonderful insight into the interesting up-bringing of Richard, his ideology in working to set the system right, how he entered the entrepreneurial world starting off from the Student magazine, how Virgin broke ground,  how it organically diversified into the plethora of fields it currently operates in, hardships the group faced due to unhealthy and healthy competition, Richards take on life and adventure, insight into his world record breaking ventures and finally Virgin&#8217;s take on social responsibility. While every other page gets you smirking for one reason or the other, you&#8217;re intermittently given insight into corporal responsibility and the onus that rests on each one of us to mend the way we use natural resources. Indeed an incredible Autobiography! You could purchase the book online from these locations or download sections of the recordings from this page.]]></description>
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		<title>Virgin and the Joker</title>
		<link>http://srikanthperinkulam.com/blog/2008/09/virgin-and-the-joker/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 27 Sep 2008 18:31:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Srikanth Perinkulam</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Of late, for some reason I&#8217;ve stopped reading fiction novels. &#8216;The Client&#8217; still lies in my office desk half read. I just read a page or two to keep me awake after lunch! Last week when I&#8217;d been to E-Square to watch &#8216;A righteous kill&#8217; , Rahul and I wandered into the Crossword store. Two books in particular caught my attention. &#8216;Losing my Virginity&#8217; -An autobiography of Richard Branson and &#8216;Joker in the Pack&#8217; by Ritesh Sharma and Neeraj Pahlajani. I&#8217;ve always had high respect for Richard for his attitude towards life and business, So I&#8217;d picked the book with no second thoughts. The reviews on &#8216;Joker in the pack&#8217; on the other hand were pretty interesting. I sifted through a few pages and plop it went into my cart. Next day morining as I sat in the 7:45 service to PhaseII, I started reading &#8216;Joker in the pack&#8217;. Believe me! I&#8217;ve never sat glued to any book for more than fifteen minutes with full concentration. But there was definitely something in this book that made me flip the pages. A wonderfully woven story to bring about the life of a person who&#8217; made it to IIMB and his experience there. Frankly, this book has sort off changed my perception of the IIMs. The simple language and the vernacular tinge makes things much more interesting. A must read for any MBA aspirant. You can visit their website here or purchase the book online here. Worth every pie spent on it!]]></description>
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		<title>The Rainmaker</title>
		<link>http://srikanthperinkulam.com/blog/2008/01/the-rainmaker/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 06 Jan 2008 04:36:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Srikanth Perinkulam</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[For some reason of late, I take quite some time to read novels. How gripping it is really doesn&#8217;t matter. I finish a chapter or two and set it aside. Probably it&#8217;s just about rekindling that thrill to get back to it later for the next read ! I just finished reading a very old  novel of John Grisham &#8211; The Rainmaker. One of his best writings, I would say. It&#8217;s about a law student by name Rudy Baylor fighting against a big time Insurance Company for it&#8217;s insensitiveness to one of its well deserving insuree. Just having passed the bar, this is one of his first few cases. To make things worse, Great Benefit &#8211; the insurance firm deploys a reputed lawyer to fight for them. Things get murky as days pass, making him wonder if at all he did the right choice in running up with the case. Amidst all this, he happens to meet a female Kelly , who&#8217;s tortured by her husband, in a hospital where he&#8217;s scouting for more cases. This is where the rafu chakkar starts ! After a long tedious trial, he finally manages to win the suit for his client in a flamboyant manner but the irony is that the parent company of Great Benefit manages to wash it&#8217;s hands off leading to Great Benefit&#8217;s bankruptcy. Neither Baylor nor his client get what they&#8217;re legally bound to. Vexed with how things turned out he leaves Memphis and Law for good with Kelly!....]]></description>
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