My Digital Thoughts : Shashi's Diary

Growing up in India, I celebrated a lot of festivals  Pongal , Ugadi , Holi ,  Dussera , Diwali.  and many others  During these festivals special dishes were made, we wore new clothes.  We looked forward to other festivals. Friends who celebrated other festivals like Ramzan shared their food and sweets. We look forward to eating the flavorful   Biriyani  or Hyderabadi Haleem   Also exciting was when  friends who celebrated Christmas, shared with us cakes and Plum pudding. Today, living in the US, love the period at the end of the year where people of all faiths and religions celebrate the holidays as Christmas, Hanukkah, Kwanzaa and of course as a general term "Holidays". We have a nice Christmas "holiday" tree, the kids enjoy looking forward to Santa's visit and open their presents on Christmas Day. You have to share festivals and appreciate every opportunity to celebrate. What ever you are celebrating this season, Happy Hol...

CEOs Don’t Have to be 6 Foot Tall. James Madison Shows Us How I went to the Rockville library to listen to David Stewart, Author of “ Madison’s Gift Five Partnerships That Built America” . According to David O. Stewart Madison was the “ significant Founding Father and framer of the new nation”. David goes on to say “ Short, plain, balding, neither soldier nor orator, low on charisma and high on intelligence, James Madison cared more about achieving results than taking the credit. Forming key partnerships with Washington, Jefferson, Monroe, and his wife Dolley, Madison achieved his lifelong goal of a self-governing constitutional republic ” Feeling proud of this fact about James Madison, you look at what Malcolm Gladwell says in his book Blink “ I found that on average CEOs were just a shade under six feet. Given that the average American male is 5’9″ that means that CEOs, as a group, have about three inches on the rest of their sex. But this statistic actually under...