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‘The challenge isn’t in seeing it’: The Nostradamus of Marketing reveals what the future really holds
Futurist and the guru of trend spotting, Faith Popcorn, who predicts market and consumer trends with an amazing 95 per cent accuracy,...

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Jul 18, 20241 min read
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Award-winning Kenyan nurse is changing lives in her village
Kenyan nurse Anna Qabale Duba is improving lives of girls and women in her village. Read the feature here

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Jul 18, 20241 min read
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Solitude, in many ways, can help prepare us for love, says Jay Shetty
Author podcaster and life coach Jay Shetty offers pointers on how to be happy. Read the feature here

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Jul 18, 20241 min read
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Abraham Verghese shares how he wrote the bestselling The Covenant of Water
Oprah Winfrey said The Covenant of Water is one of the top 3 books she has ever read. Read the feature here

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Jul 18, 20241 min read
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This 23-year-old is helping make education accessible through 3D printed schools
US-based Maggie Grout's NGO helps build world’s second 3D printed school in Madagascar. Read the feature here

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Jul 18, 20241 min read
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The fine art of listening
Today (July 18) is World Listening Day, and looking back I realise that there are benefits aplenty to living a life where you spend more...

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Jul 18, 20242 min read
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Heart to heart: top cardiac surgeon answers questions we’ve always wanted to ask
Can an organ transplant recipient acquire some personality characteristics of the donor? Award-winning surgeon Dr Alla Gopala Krishna...

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Jun 27, 20241 min read
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At the world's highest mountain, 'no summit is worth a life'
Less than 500m from the pinnacle of Mount Everest, Leslie Binns abandoned a lifelong dream of conquering the world’s highest mountain to...

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Jun 27, 20241 min read
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'Not believing in the moon landings is equivalent to not believing the earth is a sphere'
As the world celebrates the 50th anniversary of man’s first steps on the moon on July 20th, Anand Raj OK takes a fresh look at First Man...

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Jun 27, 20241 min read
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Elisabetta Dami: from storytelling in children’s hospitals to bestselling author
The author of the hugely popular Geronimo Stilton series of books for kids tells Anand Raj OK why she created the mouse character, and...

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Jun 27, 20241 min read
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Anand Neelakantan: ‘One should be atrociously ambitious’
Bestselling mythological fiction author Anand Neelakantan tells how he offers a new perspective of the Indian epics, the amount of...

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Jun 27, 20241 min read
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This boy built a drone that saves millions of lives
A drone that can detect and destroy landmines without loss of human lives has piqued the interest of armies in India and South Korea....

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Jun 27, 20241 min read
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Anita Nair: ‘Writing gives me a sense of my identity’
Award-winning Indian author Anita Nair, who will be at the Sharjah International Book Fair later this month, tells Anand Raj OK how she...

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Jun 27, 20241 min read
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Orhan Pamuk: Nobel laureate talks about the difficulty of communicating a perspective
Sharjah International Book Fair: Nobel laureate Orhan Pamuk on the difficulty of telling the truth Full feature

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Jun 27, 20241 min read
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Little lies and Lisa O’Donnell's irresistible hooks
Acclaimed author Lisa O’Donnell tells Anand Raj OK that she relies on lucid imagery to keep her readers hooked and believes fact is never...

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Jun 27, 20241 min read
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'Koodiyaattam is a vehicle for my inner voice'
Ahead of her performance in Dubai, Usha Nangiar, one of the foremost exponents of koodiyaattam, tells Anand Raj OK why this ancient art...

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Jun 27, 20241 min read
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Music icon, ‘controversial’ rebel, peacemaker: Nepal’s ‘singing nun’ has a wide repertoire
Ani Choying Drolma, the singing nun from Nepal who was in Dubai for an event recently, tells Anand Raj OK why she escaped from her family...

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Jun 27, 20241 min read
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Female genital mutilation: 'I still remember it. And I still hate it.’
Barely eight years old when she was forced to undergo female genital mutilation, Edna Adan Ismail has been waging a relentless war...

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Jun 27, 20241 min read
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Tomorrow, I Will Fly: Dubai inmates’ book of essays reflects on second chances, family, freedom
In a first of its kind, Anand Raj OK was granted exclusive access into Dubai’s Central Prison to speak with inmates who participated in a...

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Jun 27, 20241 min read
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Kerala rickshaw driver earns a PhD: I hawked peanuts, toughed it out in a quarry
From working in pineapple farms and stone quarries to selling fish by the roadside and driving an autorickshaw, Ajith overcame several...

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Jun 27, 20241 min read
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