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Greed is a natural outcome when you are hungry

September 1, 2022 by thebengali

So I reached the afternoon after working through the morning without a break not unusual for me but when there’s a lot of thinking or creating involved, often I find food to be a good inspiration. I usually eat just one meal a day, at the end of the day after all my work is done. But that’s when work is routine drudgery. Today I was creating stuff so around 3 pm I decided to grab whatever’s there for a […]

Categories: Cooking, Work • Tags: creativity, designing, frankfurters, fried egg, green chilly, kimchi, Pune, salami, Self, steamed rice, thebengali, Writing

Extraordinary Ordinary People: Roopesh Raj – the continuous metamorphosis of a gentle soul

February 20, 2022 by thebengali

Obituary for Roopesh Raj, renowned Pune-based journalist, columnist, mentor and family man. Includes tributes from family, friends and colleagues. #roopeshraj #journalist #Pune #writer #subeditor #thebengali

Categories: Family, Journalism, Learning, Media, News, Pune, Self, Society • Tags: Cornelius Mascarenhas, Dubai, Emirates247, existentialism, Geetanjali Katyayan, Hindustan Times, India, journalism, journalists, Manjiri Damle, Mohan Sinha, ninety9words, Pune, Rahul Chandawarkar, Roger Dragonette, Rohan Pandit, Roopesh Raj, Sanjay Mukherjee, Sanjay Pendse, Sherna Gandhy, Society, sub, subeditor, Sudheer Gaikwad, svengali, thebengali, Times of India, Vitthal Mavinkurve

Extraordinary Ordinary People: Tushar Uchil – the passing of an Instructional Design legend

September 30, 2021 by thebengali

Obituary on Tushar Uchil, Pune and Mumbai-based Writer, Instructional Designer and Design mentor.

Categories: eLearning, Learning, News, People, Pune, Training • Tags: Brainvisa, eLearning, India, Instructional Designer, Learning, Mumbai, Nitin Agarwal, Nupur Avantika, Pune, Sanjay Mukherjee, Supam Maheshwari, thebengali, Tushar Uchil, Vikas Agarwal

Good Morning World: What I need right now is courage

April 4, 2020 by thebengali

Good Morning World: What I need right now is courage. #courage #life #philosophy #art #reality #India #coronavirus #existentialism #religion #society #Pune #life #politics #writing #learning #communication #goodmorningworld #thebengali

Categories: Learning, People, Philosophy, Pune, Self, Society, The Arts • Tags: Art, Conscience, existentialism, Good Morning World, India, Learning, Life, Pune, Sanjay Mukherjee, Self, Society, thebengali, Upamanyu Mukherjee

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Coz aI Can

April 6, 2023 by thebengali

Conscious Deliberate Differentiation is the ability to make a non-choice or make a choice that is not the outcome of an analysis or make a choice that is not the apparent right choice knowing that it is not the right choice. It is Conscious Deliberate Differentiation that gives us plurality.

Categories: Learning, Science & Technology, Training • Tags: AI, Art, artificial intelligence, Conscience, Conscious Deliberate Differentiation, India, machine learning, ML, Performance, Pune, Sanjay Mukherjee, Society, Technology, thebengali, Work

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I can do it; One day at a time

January 7, 2023 by thebengali

I won’t get a medal for this but am enjoying this small success for 60 seconds. It feels good to achieve a goal that is longer than a day. The numbers read: 10, 10.2, 8.3, 9.5, 8.4, 13.2 and 11.5 for an average of 10.2 across 7 days. Typically, in any matter, I set an annual goal and then focus only on the day, every day, reviewing and correcting course once in three months. My approach is to start strong […]

Categories: Mountain Walking, Training, Work • Tags: thebengali, Walking

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Kimchi, Kheema Mutter and a Cheese Cube

January 6, 2023 by thebengali

Today was a great day in the kitchen. All 20 minutes of it. I made kheema mutter (mince goat meat cooked with green peas in a shallow gravy of Indian spices). But then instead of eating it with pav or bread, I decided to eat within Korean kimchi and an Amul cheese cube. Best decision because it was a satisfying meal with all the tastes I wanted to have at that moment. Some times you’ve gotta go beyond the template […]

Categories: Cooking, Learning, Mountain Walking • Tags: cooking, Indian food, kheema mutter, kimchi, Korean food, thebengali

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Chilli Con Carne in the name of Trinity

January 4, 2023 by thebengali

Pune, 4 January, 2023, 2109 hours: Am finally comfortable with the chilli I make. I started a wanting chilli con carne from the first time I saw Terence Hill wolfing down beans with a slab of bread in They Call Me Trinity. I still am a big fan of Bud Spencer-Terence Hill movies but last year I started wondering if it was all because of the beans. It was a long time before I found out that the chilli con […]

Categories: Cooking, Learning, Mountain Walking • Tags: chilli, chilli con carne, Fort Worth, Mexican chilli, mince meat, Texas, thebengali

An approach to test the limits of performance

January 3, 2023 by thebengali

Can I write a 5000-word article in a day? Can I write a 5000-word article and edit 2, 1000-word articles in a day? Can I write a 5000-word article, edit 2, 1000-word articles and design a 1-hour learning program in a day? Can I write a 5000-word article, edit 2, 1000-word articles, design a 1-hour learning program and Ideate a new assessment system in a day? Can I write a 5000-word article, edit 2, 1000-word articles, design a deep-learning program, […]

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Function, Purpose and Motivation in Fitness Training

January 2, 2023 by thebengali

Pune, 2 January 2023, 2101 hours: Just past 9 pm and I have clocked 10 kilometres of walking for the second day in a row. Will I be able to sustain this for the rest of the year? These are the kinds of questions I don’t sweat about. To be precise, I don’t think that way. I have always trained for something or the other, but never in a gym or a controlled formal environment and this was by choice […]

Categories: Mountain Walking, Training • Tags: Learning, The Mountain Walker, thebengali, Training

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A step at a time

January 1, 2023 by thebengali

Pune, 1 January 2023, 1820 hours: Just returned from a walk along the busy street nearby. I remember the time when that broad concrete road was nothing but a mud path cutting across this part of Baner. Come to think of it, I remember when the main Baner Road was a narrow partially paved, partially mud kind of road hurtling across fields and wild brush towards the Mumbai-Bengaluru highway (which itself was a narrower younger version of its current robust […]

Categories: Learning, Mountain Walking • Tags: existentialism, Pune, Self, thebengali, Training, Walking