The COVID-19 pandemic has upended many conventional notions which otherwise represented an ordinary way of life. Whether it be the concept of working from home or maintaining social distancing, there have been paradigm shifts in thought and deed both in the professional and personal domains. The restaurant business is no exception to the norm. Dining-in … Continue reading Delivering The Digital Restaurant: Your Roadmap to the Future of Food – Meredith Sandland & Carl Orsbourn

In any war the strategies formulated outside the field of action assume as much importance as the heroics exhibited on the battlefields themselves. The Battle of Britain in 1940-41 was no different. The impact of the intelligence that was gathered and the use to which such information was put, by both the German and Allied … Continue reading The Role of Intelligence in the Battle of Britain  – Norman Ridley

Antonio Damasio, the David Dornsife Chair in Neuroscience, as well as Professor of Psychology, Philosophy, and Neurology, at the University of Southern California, in a slim but complex book, attempts to address the conflict between feeling and reason. Do we as human beings represent a feeling species that can think, or are we a collectively … Continue reading Feeling & Knowing: Making Minds Conscious  – Antonio Damasio

American author and screenplay writer, Steven Pressfield employs a spontaneous and freewheeling method of writing in his book “The War of Art”, whose quintessential objective is to facilitate overcoming internal blocks that impeded creativity. Terming such blocks as “Resistance”, Pressfield boldly proclaims that the difference between the life that remains unlived and the mundane life … Continue reading The War of Art: Break Through The Blocks & Win Your Inner Creative Battles  – Steven Pressfield

Dr. Alan Gordon and Alon Ziv in their compelling book “Way Out”, introduce the concept of Pain Reprocessing Therapy (PRT), a radical approach to eliminating chronic pain instead of just managing the discomfiture by taking recourse to conventional remedies such as surgeries, physiotherapy and opioids intake. Complementing their contentions with real life examples and empirical … Continue reading Way Out: A Revolutionary, Scientifically Proven Approach to Healing Chronic Pain – Alan Gordon, Alon Ziv

Former India cricketer and current coach of the Indian national team, Ravi Shastri considers the great Sunil Gavaskar to be his mentor. Now following the footsteps of his tutor, the testy yet humorous Shastri pens a paean to a band of legendary cricketers who have either wielded some form of influence on other in moulding … Continue reading Stargazing: The Players in My Life – Ravi Shastri