by thebengali
Good Morning World: WFH is just a change of venue.
Categories: Culture, Learning, People, Philosophy, Pune, Self, Society, Work • Tags: existentialism, Good Morning World, India, Learning, Life, Mental Health, Pune, Self, Social Media, Society, thebengali, Wellness, WFH, Work, Work Culture, Work From Home
by thebengali
A tribute to educator and hospitality industry rockstar, Sanjeev Kacker, who retires as HOD Food and Beverage, IHM Dadar, Mumbai.
Categories: Journalism, Learning, People, Training, Work • Tags: Coaching, Dadar Catering College, IHM Dadar, Learning, Sanjay Mukherjee, Sanjeev Kacker, thebengali, Training
by thebengali
It was my first trip to Noida. First trip to our vendor’s office. Peak Pacific, founded by Aviation Learning Technology guru and stalwart, Kishor Mistry, was a startup in its first year. We had a couple of big clients and one of the critical projects was being developed by our vendor, a big services company. The project hadn’t been moving as expected. The CEO Kishor asked me to go down to the vendor office and see if we could move […]
Categories: Learning, People, Pune, Science & Technology, Work • Tags: Deeptanshu Tiwari, Peak Pacific
by thebengali
One day I will pass on And all that I hold dear Would cease to matter For they were dear only to me. The world, shall go on Lives would continue Family, friends, relationships Would change. And there would be new relationships, new pathways, as usual. One day these roads will cease to exist And all those destinations they connected Would find new avenues to communicate The World, shall go on People, nations, seasons Would change. And there would be […]
Categories: Mountain Walking, Philosophy, Poetry, Self, Society, The Arts, Work • Tags: existentialism, Life, People, Poetry, Self, Society, thebengali, Truth, Work
by thebengali
I love all this new User Xperience (UX) stuff, just love it. Companies, brands, apps, designers, engineers are all into it and everybody together is getting very good at taking decisions for the user (that’s me in this case). In fact, they are so brilliant at UX that they already know what I want, when I want it, how, and they just deliver it without even me having to ask for it: they pre-deliver solutions before I even realise what […]
Categories: Learning, Media, Science & Technology, Society, Work • Tags: Facebook, LinkedIn, Marketing, Predictive Content, Sanjay Mukherjee, Social Media, thebengali, User Experience, UX
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
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
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
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