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The 3 Mistakes of my life: Chetan Bhagat

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Chetan Bhagat’s pens another ‘unputdownable’ book in the genre of
of his earlier two new novels. It has all the ingredients that has
endeadered him to his readers–humor, friends, first love, first sex,etc.
Only this time, he choses a bigger canvass and he succeeds to a large
extent.

The book takes us through the journey of three friends in Ahmedabad,
set against the earthquake, the communal riots and the historic
India-Australia cricket series. Chetan while using them as the background
uses the incidents as plot points as well and steers the story around
them.

However, somewhere down the line you get a feeling that Chetan
had Bollywood in mind:) Specially when the story turns violent
during the communal riots and the story threads hurry towards
a resolution, you can’t escape the Bollywood hangover.

Ovearll, if you overlook a few mistakes(anachronisms),
Chetan’s 3 mistakes is a good read.

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An Enduring Measure of Fitness: The Simple Push-Up

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As a symbol of health and wellness, nothing surpasses the simple push-up.

Practically everyone remembers the actor Jack Palance performing
age-defying push-ups during his Oscar acceptance speech.
More recently, Randy Pausch, the Carnegie Mellon professor whose
last lecture became an Internet sensation, did push-ups to prove his
fitness despite having pancreatic cancer.

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‘We Will Have Our Own Oprah and Our Own Larry King’

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Knowledge@Wharton: How does UTV structure its deals with Hollywood studios?

Screwvala:Well, we have only dealt with them twice — once for
The Namesake and then for The Happening. We don’t have a long-term
strategy about wanting to be in Hollywood or hoisting our flag here.
We are very selective.
We like working with certain people — and that is what we do.

The way we structure our deals is to work closely with the director.
It is imperative to work with a studio because the way the film is marketed
is crucial. In this particular genre of The Happening — which is sci-fi
horror — we wanted to work with a studio that had a strong international
presence; Night’s movies do as well internationally as they do in the U.S.
We also wanted a studio that understood the sci-fi horror genre, and Fox
is top-of-the-line in that regard. Night was excited, as we were. We first
signed a deal with Night, and then both of us went together to Fox.

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