"Can". Three-letter word. Has no great personality. Slang for toilet. Painted by Andy Warhol. Worth five points in Scrabble. Then you look again. "Can" has muscle. It means to have the ability, the skill, the belief. It's knowing ‘how to’. It's having the ‘power to’....
The league culture in India has been evolving this past decade. As with most things to do with leagues, the initiative will have to be taken by the IPL and, to a lesser extent, the PKL and ISL for it to percolate down to the...
The ripple effect of the IPL’s success cascaded into virtually every other sport, led by promoters teaming up with national federations. Of these, two have been relatively successful despite it being early days in the life cycles of leagues in India. The Indian Super League...
8th August 1984, four days before the closing ceremony of the glittering 23rd Summer Olympics at Los Angeles. The finals of the women’s 400m hurdles, featuring, in Lane 5, the very first Indian woman in the finals of any Olympic event, ever, are about to...
As Jay Z once said, “a rapper isn’t a businessman, they are a business, man”. Many may argue that drake is not a true entrepreneur but more of a musical artist. However, by definition of entrepreneurship, an approach to any problem or need that is...
When people ask me why I come to Singapore to study at the age of 15 alone, I tried to avoid telling them that I am a scholar. Partially that is because I don’t want to sound like bragging about the scholarship. To me, this...
Gun violence in the Philippines (essay) United States of America have the highest gun-related death rate in the world. They have easy access to buy guns and anybody can have one, they have the most number of gun owners in the world. On the contrary,...
In the patriarchal society of Ancient Greece, women were seen as inferior to their male counterparts. As a consequence of this, women were far less represented in Ancient Greek society by a large degree, being unable to obtain any form of citizenship in their city-state...
The Injaka Bridge project was in a small town called Bushbuckridge in South Africa. It was proposed to be a seven-span 300m steel structure. In July 1998 it was being constructed using the incremental launching method when disaster struck, and the bridge collapsed. The bridge...
Hospitality shows the reception and entertainment of guest, visitors, or strangers through unselfishness and goodwill. In the Greek culture hospitality is shown as a great level of respect with a massive feast and days of celebration. The Greek started using hospitality as a sign of...
They call it the chrysalis stage of a butterfly’s metamorphosis. It’s that point in time when a dazzling future is imminent, but the take-off still moments away. A lot might be happening inside the silken shell, though the world sees quiescence. Countries – even mammoth...
The generation of athletes that grew into a post-liberalisation India were to set out to become the first of so many things – in the top 30 in singles rankings on the WTA Tour, on the Formula One grid, on the professional squash circuit, the...
Introduction Elon Musk is a South-African serial entrepreneur and is the founder of Tesla Motors, SpaceX and PayPal. All three of which are valued at well over a billion dollars making Elon’s net worth an astonishing $20. 8 billion (“Elon Musk Biography. ”, 2005). Musk...
Financing via carbon trading has been somewhat effective in its early use as part of the Clean Development Mechanism policies. This is essentially financing through other richer countries receiving emission credits in exchange for investments in projects within developing countries that would lower GHG pollution....
Malaysia has been heavily regarded as a fossil fuel economy due to its large reserves of natural gas and its bulk exports of this fuel to finance the country. As mentioned, the oil and gas industry contributes about a fifth of Malaysia’s GDP and makes...
Everyone in this world all has their own cultural identity, the culture where they belong to. As a Vietnamese teenager, I have been wondering in my whole life asking myself tons of questions about my cultural identiy and where I actually belong to. Who am...
Dharma is a word with a diverse set of meanings. To some extent it can be referred as an ever changing duty based on the surrounding environment and people. ” It is a collection of principles that needs to be observed and followed but it...
India is one among the world’s quickest growing economies, the tenth largest within the world by nominal GDP and also the third largest by buying power parity (PPP). India must establish the steps being taken to give a lot of money powers to states, redoubled...
SWOT Analysis Strength Flight Centre Travel Group (FCTG) is considered to be one of the best travel service provider for travellers around the world. We are expanding our market in Nepal which is one of the top travel destinations for the people around the world,...