A Song Of Ice And Fire - Learnings From The Deaths Of Game Of Thrones - Part 2
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For the longest time, Sachin Tendulkar was my favourite cricketer. He was the hero of our generation - a great place to park all our hopes, admiration and adulation.
Speaking at the XXIII Annual Convocation ceremony of FORE School of Management, Delhi, Ms. Neelam Dhawan, Managing Director Hewlett Packard Enterprise, stimulated the outgoing students with her short but power packed speech.
Game of Thrones is pretty much the most popular show of the past decade. It is a high fantasy show based on the book series called ‘The Song of Ice and Fire’ by George R.R Martin. This show contains a lot of fantasy elements such as magic, dragons, white walkers, Giants, Children of the Forest and other such elements exist in the make believe land of Westeros. Violence, lust, murder, incest, battles, sex, conspiracy, hookers, power and all in the name of love, there’s quite a bit to learn from our beloved series. And who says we can learn only from the living? The famous deaths on the show can teach us some life lessons as well.
As a teenager growing up in the sub-urban areas of Jamshedpur, I was always fascinated with fantasy adventures, such as those of Frodo and Sam in which the protagonist used to save the day with his unyielding spirit and iron will.
Who exactly are psychopaths? We have many T.V series that have characters based on psychopaths and sociopaths. There’s Dexter, Sherlock, Joffrey Baratheon, Ramsay Bolton, Dr House and many more. Often the word psychopath and sociopath are used interchangeably but the truth is that they are quite different. The key difference between the two is that Psychopaths have no conscience ergo feel no guilt at all and are meticulous whereas Sociopaths do have a conscience but a very weak one and are quite reckless. Both these terms fall under the spectrum of Anti-Social Personality Disorder and have quite a few overlapping traits.
Cricket stadia across small town India have suddenly started seeing the influx of large batches of school kids accompanied by their teachers and peons to attend the international cricket matches. The former generation would remember going to the stadium with their cricket-crazy families in the 90s - the madness of a stadium considered to be no place a school should organize an excursion to.
“I didn’t sleep last night! So much to do and only 24 hours in a day!”