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Achieving Success Comes Down to One Thing: Connecting With People

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Growing up, I dabbled in just about everything—from band and choir to basketball and acting—because I needed to know more about all the things life offered. Your teaching methods, clothes, the booger in your nose during allergy season—all of it. Stay curious and open minded. Be willing to connect with new people.

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Hearth: A Writer Explores the Concept of Home During Her Early Career as a Writer in Delhi, Mumbai and the U.S.

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Roti, Kapda aur Makaan” (food, clothing and shelter) was the political cry of independent India’s socialism in the 1960s and ’70s (including a Hindi film with the same title). My grandfather, a popular science writer, considered a nation-builder, had seen difficult times growing up. the editor nearly spat into the phone.

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The ups and downs of working from home

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I didn’t have a blackberry… actually I didn’t have a mobile phone that accepted emails or had the internet so it wasn’t easy to stay connected. This meant starting up my home computer from 1997, connecting it to my dial-up internet and attempting to log onto the torturously slow remote email system.

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