Tag: office

• Teaching the Ghazal in Class

  

  Last week I was subbing at the Vrije Universteit for the Genre, Literature and Analysis class for the Bachelor First Year course. I was teaching the villanelle and ghazal, which involved aspects of the forms as well as close reading. I found myself in a room full of bright, intelligent, engaged, and wise students. They…

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  20 Nov 2017

  Academic, Art, Audience, Awareness, Education, Poem A Day, Poetry, Story

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• Learning how to THINK: review of Bitasta Roy Mehta’s book Have a THINK

  

  I applaud Bitasta Roy Mehta for hitting the nail directly on the head when it comes to people management, be it in organizational practices or as individual parts of the fabric of society. What am I talking about? A book called Have a THINK. I needed this book at this juncture of my career and…

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  1 Aug 2017

  Academic, Awareness, Books, Customer Review, Education, Story

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• Going away – a visit to NIAS

  

  Our team at work went for an offsite to NIAS in Wassenaar. I wrote a small feature on the outing. I am sharing a snippet (the one which Purab made me read out again): Autumn is an extraordinary season. The trees laden with orange, brown and red, shed their leaves. Ripe with the experiences of the…

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  22 Nov 2014

  Academic, Apoorva, Photography, Story, Travel

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