Tag Archives: Inspirational

We did bought The Test of My Life: From Cricket to Cancer and Back a book written by ace cricketer from India – Yuvraj Singh, before many days. As we have completed it now let us share our unbiased views and reviews for the same with you all. Yuvraj Singh is known for many of his performances (in cricket) but best remembered for going full monty (hitting six sixes in an over); and of course being the player of the series for the second Cricket World Cup, India have won. He is inspirational figure for many for his cricketing skills ... Read More »

We often talk about commencement speeches which are motivational and/or inspirational. Today we would love to share with you a fantastic conversation between Indra Nooyi (PepsiCo Chairman and CEO) & Doug McMillon (Walmart President and CEO) arranged at Stanford Graduate School of Business (Website: https://www.gsb.stanford.edu)for their MBA students. Though it is an arranged conversation for the MBA students, you will never feel that it is a lecture, it resumes to be conversation throughout. Also the mutual respect and warmth between both of them is evidently visible. While being more experienced and elder, Indra was quite open about her views and ... Read More »

Jodi Lynn Picoult is an American author. Born on May 19, 1966 Jodi bagged the New England Bookseller Award for fiction in 2003.Many of her creations are adapted into Television and even feature film. It is considered that Picoult currently has approximately 14 million copies of her books in print worldwide. Jodi was invited to deliver 2016 Class Day Address by the Princeton University with a vision to guide the awarding graduate for the future. She of course delivered the words of wisdom but she wisely weaved some of her real life experiences into them as well, which made this ... Read More »

Recently we got a chance to read The Last Bloom, a book by debutante author Poulomi Sengupta. The book touches the subject of politics in college campus and it’s impact on students. The book also insists rightly that the college campuses are meant to be studied at. The politics should not affect the process of learning. It also raises some valid points like when we are talking about “brain drain”, we need to look at the environment we are giving to our youth. Those who are living the country for the better future loves the motherland like all of us. ... Read More »

Making a quality biopic is a tough thing. And when you are making it for a sportsman (or a legend in any field for that matter) is alive, and active in his/her career; it is even tougher. Mahendra Singh Dhoni, the captain of Indian cricket team, one of the smartest wicket keepers in the world is also considered as one of the (if not the) best match finisher. He have guided Indian cricket team to win the second world cup. As cricket is not less than a religion in India, he have made his place almost immortal here. So when ... Read More »

At ThinkerViews, we often talk about some remarkable commencement speeches and the lessons we got to learn from them. While this give us a chance to share our understanding of a nice speech with you all, it also give us a chance to hear from you and learning something new, which we might have missed. Commencement speaker that year at Tufts University for 2014 convocation ceremony, Anne-Marie Slaughter was born September 27, 1958. She is an international lawyer, foreign policy analyst, political scientist and public commentator.She have also served for U. S. States department. She is the former director of ... Read More »