November | 2017 | thebengali

Ping Pong Philosophy

November 28, 2017 by thebengali

Life is actually a ping pong ball. It is so too. If you don’t believe me, roll yourself down the road and see how your life goes round and round with every gust of wind. Well, it’s a theory anyway. Or so my good friend, TT Singh, sitting in Delhi tells me. Now TT Singh had beaten me in the finals of our club ping pong tournament and as you can imagine he never stops harping about it. That was […]

Categories: Learning, People, Pune, Self, Society, The Arts, Training, Work • Tags: India, Learning, Ping Pong, Pune, thebengali, Training

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The Rose

November 27, 2017 by thebengali

“I am still beautiful,” she said, looking up at me wistfully. Her rosy cheeks were withered, under the onslaught of the hot sun. She had been standing there patiently for someone to notice her. But nobody had. And now there were others like her, younger, prettier. Yes, she is beautiful, I thought. I had never seen her so up close. I picked her up and she turned her face towards me. Soft. Her petals were so soft. This had to […]

Categories: Learning, Nature, People, Philosophy, Self, Society, The Arts • Tags: Old Age, Philosophy, Rahul Joshi, Sanjay Mukherjee, Self, Society, The Rose, thebengali, Wisdom

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The Cubicle, The Chair, and The Coffee Mug

November 26, 2017 by thebengali

(Short story from the publication, The First Book of Nobodyness) In my third year of employment, I got a shock. I have always taken great pride in not having a heart that could be rocked by mundane matters of daily routine. For instance, it has never bothered me which chair I sat in or, in which corner of the room my chair was positioned. Over the past three years, my seating place was shuffled all across the room. As a […]

Categories: Learning, People, Pune, Self, Society, The Arts, Work • Tags: Office Life, Sanjay Mukherjee, The First Book of Nobodyness, thebengali, Work, Work Culture

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The Peace

November 24, 2017 by thebengali

I grew up with a sense of peace. Not the sense of peace that I hear of today – the peace of the external environment, the peace in society and communities and so on – but a peace of the mind, of the spirit. As a natural consequence, I also grew up avoiding direct conflicts since I had an innate understanding that most day-to-day conflicts are fleeting, of material matters (even emotional conflicts are material in nature in the sense […]

Categories: Learning, Nature, People, Self, Society • Tags: Bullies, Conflict, Ownership, Peace, Rahul Joshi, Sanjay Mukherjee, thebengali

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Of Value And Values

November 24, 2017 by thebengali

A mango ready to eat, withers ‘n’ rots. It cost 100 bucks – so that’s a waste of a 100 bucks. That was the last mango of the season: so that’s now a colossal waste since it’s a year to the next mango. For a poor human being who hasn’t eaten in 5 days: that mango was nourishment and the difference between life and death. It’s only when I put myself in the shoes of others can I understand different […]

Categories: Learning, Media, People, Self, Society, The Arts • Tags: Context, Contextual, Rahul Joshi, Relative, Sanjay Mukherjee, Self, Society, Strategy, thebengali, Value, Values

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“In Next 5 Years, “Learning” Will Be Tightly Integrated with Talent Development Strategy of Organisations”

November 15, 2017 by thebengali

Interview with Instructional Designer and learning professional, Nupur Avantika

Categories: eLearning, Learning, News, People, Training, Work • Tags: AR, eLearning, gamification, Indecomm Global Services, India, Learning, Mobile Learning, Nupur Avantika, Performance, Pune, Sanjay Mukherjee, Technology, thebengali, Training, Virtual Reality, VR

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There Is No Box

November 11, 2017 by thebengali

In 1987, I found myself in what is called a Junior College (Grade 11) in Mumbai. Within a few months, I realised that many of my classmates, some of my neighbourhood playmates, and many former schoolmates were all talking careers, jobs, applications and the like. This was all Greek to me. Thankfully, I still had my very good childhood friends and made a couple of good new ones and our thoughts on life and living were pretty aligned: let’s learn […]

Categories: Learning, Mountain Walking, People, Self, Society, The Arts, Training, Work • Tags: Artist, Brainvisa Technologies, Dadar Catering College, Dmess, employee, Entrepreneur, Institute Of Hotel Management Applied Nutrition And Catering Technology, Peak Pacific Group, RedstoneSummerhill, Sanjay Mukherjee, Self-employed, The Mountain Walker, thebengali, There Is No Box, Times of India

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1001 Secrets To An Engaged Work Life

November 10, 2017 by thebengali

Of late, I seem to be meeting quite a few people in India who are giving up jobs to start ventures. Am also meeting a very large number of people who are job-hopping or simply quitting and taking to art or craft to find themselves. Which is great. It shows that the country is in an age when people are ready to take risks, and do different things. But then, am also meeting a troublingly large number of people who, […]

Categories: Learning, People, Self, Training, Work • Tags: In The Zone, Performance, Perseverance, Proficiency, Rahul Joshi, Sanjay Mukherjee, thebengali, Work

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“VR, Gaming Are Exciting, But We Must Handle Them With Care (For Cabin Crew Training)”

November 10, 2017 by thebengali

Anna Mellberg Karlsson is Chief Cabin Safety and CRM Instructor at Novair, Sweden. A well known and respected cabin crew training professional, Anna is also the moderator of the Cabin Crew Conference stream at the European Aviation Training Symposium (EATS), organised by Halldale Media’s CAT Magazine. In this interview on the eve of EATS 2017 in Berlin, Anna provides some candid insights into what it takes to be a cabin crew, current challenges in cabin crew recruitment, the changing profile […]

Categories: Aviation, eLearning, Learning, Media, News, People, Training • Tags: Anna Mellberg Karlsson, Aviation, AviationTraining, Berlin, Cabin Crew, Chief Strategy Advisor, EATS2017, European Aviation Training Symposium, Germany, Halldale Media, Mixed Reality, Novair, Peak Pacific, Sanjay Mukherjee, Sweden, thebengali, Virtual Reality

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Monthly Archives: November 2017

Ping Pong Philosophy

The Rose

The Cubicle, The Chair, and The Coffee Mug

The Peace

Of Value And Values

“In Next 5 Years, “Learning” Will Be Tightly Integrated with Talent Development Strategy of Organisations”

There Is No Box

1001 Secrets To An Engaged Work Life

“VR, Gaming Are Exciting, But We Must Handle Them With Care (For Cabin Crew Training)”