The Kuttappi

Author: Arun Basil Lal

  • How I Quit Biting Nails. And So You Can Too!

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    Okay, Biting nails is not a very good bad habit, wait, maybe that’s why they call it a bad habit. Anyways, since high school I had this not-so-good habit and my nails looked so small and terrible. But somehow I never cared about it so much, and whenever someone say that my nails are too…

  • What The Indonesian Trip Did To My Untold Fears

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    I am scared of many things. I am scared of heights for instance. And I follow by the philosophy, If you are scared of something, don’t run away from it, Face it. And it works every time. I bet you know the obvious reason for my trip to Indonesia, but the idea of a foreign…

  • BarCamp Kerala 11 at IIM-K – A Memoir

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    The 11th edition of BarCamp was announced with just 20 days of notice, unlike other editions. Hence the registered sessions and attendees was lower than the norm. And this time it was at Indian Institute of Management, Calicut. I don’t know why, but people find travelling to the north a bit more hectic than travelling…

  • Book Recommendation : Outliers: The Story of Success, Malcolm Gladwell

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    Its been a while since I read my last book and this one, Outliers came heavily recommended. The book starts with a definition of what an Outlier is: Out-li-er something that is situated away from our classed differently from a main or related body. a statistical observation that is markedly different in value from the…

  • Looking back!

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    Today, its the completion of an year of leaving college. Looking back, I had a great year! The greatest of all would be living away from home. I never had to stay away from home for a considerably long time during school or college days, but soon after college I moved to Cochin. Stayed at…