Join Facebook Page of Scaling New Heights Blog: I have done this same exercise last year also - compiling the list of books I read in 2012. Here is the list for 2013. Will be updating this list as and when I finish reading the books. Goal for this year - Read 30 books Read till now - 13 books June 2013 - India's Biggest Cover-Up by Anuj Dhar What a book! I have heard so many stories about the

     

Join Facebook Page of Scaling New Heights Blog: When I was on vacation in Trivandrum one parent with his son came to meet me. The boy has just completed 12th standard and they want to talk to me about engineering admission. This was the conversation we had. Father: I am very happy today. Me: Why? Father: Yesterday Kerala government reduced the eligibility criteria for engineering

     

Join Facebook Page of Scaling New Heights Blog: I was little skeptical with myself when I decided to take up the job of a faculty in a University in India in 2010. Unlike my wife who had two years of teaching experience I had no prior experience in teaching. But with the kind of feedback I got in the last two years from the students, knowingly or unknowingly I now know that I have chosen the

     

Join Facebook Page of Scaling New Heights Blog: Welcome to the political fiction “Shoes of the Dead” by Kota Neelima, which is refreshing and read worthy. Honesty and integrity prevails in the skirmish between inheritances of despair and power. The stories of the Vidarbha region of Maharashtra are the soul of the book. In the author Neelima’s own words “a principle premise of the book is

     

Join Facebook Page of Scaling New Heights Blog: I am writing this blog post based on my observations on students doing engineering and also on those who are in 11th and 12th planning to write the various engineering entrance exams. A parent to me “Sir, my son got 94% marks in intermediate exam and I am not sure why he is doing so badly in engineering?” I have heard this so many times in