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It Could Happen To Anybody: Raising Awareness on Human Trafficking

August 22, 2016 by thebengali

It would have been an uncomfortable topic to present in a training symposium. It was a challenging task to get an audience to engage. It was an important core issue, though an age-old one. But Sherry Saehlenou not only made the presentation with class, she not only got the audience engaged in style, she also achieved her greater purpose: to create awareness about the need for an industry to do something more. The event was the World Aviation Training Symposium (WATS 2016) […]

Categories: Learning, People, Society, Work • Tags: ATD, Boeing, CA Training, CRM, Human Trafficking, ICAO, Learning, Pan American, Peak Pacific, Sanjay Mukherjee, Sherry Saehlenou, SIETAR, thebengali, United Airlines, WATS 2016, World Aviation Training Symposium

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Age of Endless Time

August 22, 2016 by thebengali

My Days are deep, dark nights Deep, dark nights of pain. Pain gained from misplaced trust In the frail constitution of the human name. My Nights are long, lonely vigils  Vigils on account of pain Pain earned through day-long labours On the hard knock school of earning daily bread. My Weeks are a string of Days and Nights Strung together by sheer belief Belief in the resilience of the Spirit And the lack of sense to know when to quit. My […]

Categories: Learning, Self, Society • Tags: India, Learning, Poetry, Sanjay Mukherjee, Self, Society, thebengali, Verse

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Random Thoughts, Automated Thinking, and Default Decisions

August 21, 2016 by thebengali

I have been staring into space for almost an hour now. Staring some times at this page, some times out of the window, some times across the room and into the kitchen. It’s not that I have nothing to write about. Nor am I starved of thoughts or the inclination to express myself. It’s just that there are too many thoughts – as usual. Too many thoughts about too many different things and they are all clamouring for my attention. […]

Categories: Mountain Walking, Science & Technology, Self, Society • Tags: Automated Thinking, Decision Making Skills, Default Decisions, India, Sanjay Mukherjee, Society, thebengali

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Law, Order, Equality, Justice, and Change

August 20, 2016 by thebengali

Recently one of my young nephews asked a question (to no one in particular) on a social network: can’t we have one law for everyone? As a very common citizen he was angry about people getting away with a crime and others less privileged getting long imprisonment for a similar crime; he was frustrated at his helplessness, that he had no power to influence law makers, and governments into a more peaceful society, a just society. I was struck by […]

Categories: Learning, Self, Society • Tags: Change, Equality, India, Justice, Law, Order, Sanjay Mukherjee, Society, thebengali

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A Few Random Questions & Observations

August 19, 2016 by thebengali

Justice: Is justice possible under any legal system, anywhere the world? Law: What is the purpose of law? It’s not justice as has been plain to see is one studies Power: Being powerful and being powerless are conceptually the same thing – one is at the mercy of forces beyond one’s control. Innovation: If I keep innovating all the time, when am I building anything? Control: What one controls decides the limit of success or achievement in an avenue of […]

Categories: Society • Tags: India, Innovation, Justice, Law, Sanjay Mukherjee, thebengali

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War & Peace

August 19, 2016 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: Society • Tags: India, Sanjay Mukherjee, Society, thebengali, War & Peace

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Conflict

August 19, 2016 by thebengali

When I see news of armed conflicts or movies of historical war, and I see people dying, I do not cry and feel for an Indian, American, European, Chinese or Arab- I cry for the pain of the people, I cry because I know that common people give up their rights in the hope that other rights will be upheld. And the anger I feel is not towards the aggressor nations but the leaders of both the parties for they […]

Categories: Learning, People, Self, Society • Tags: Conflicts, India, Sanjay Mukherjee, Society, thebengali

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The Serpents of Medusa

August 19, 2016 by thebengali

I’m not really here I am But not really Grey winds cast a shadow On the valleys of sanity Leaving me a little south. Medusa has let her serpents out. Oh how they dance with glee On the head of humanity And Medusa, she rejoices As her offspring feed Those children crying are me Those mothers dying are me Those lands lying ravaged are me My rainbow is black and white My nightmares are technicolor My God lies languishing at […]

Categories: Self, Society, The Arts • Tags: I Used To Be A River, Sanjay Mukherjee, thebengali

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Meet #SamanthaGash of #RunIndia

August 18, 2016 by thebengali

On August 22, 2016, Samantha Gash, a young Australian endurance athlete, will begin running her biggest ultra-marathon yet: #RunIndia, a 3800 kilometres run across several states in India from Rajasthan to Meghalaya. The run is expected to take 76 days at a planned pace of 50 kilometres a day and during the journey, Samantha and her team will visit 18 World Vision projects in India. #RunIndia is the latest initiative from Samantha Gash, who is a Social Entrepreneur and Corporate […]

Categories: Learning, Nature, People, Society, Work • Tags: Freeom Runners, India, RunIndia, Samantha Gash, Sanjay Mukherjee, thebengali, World Vision

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