I had the opportunity of travelling to Canada with my family lasy year. I penned down my experiences and it was published in the Deccan Herald. You can read more about this-http://www.deccanherald.com/content/643230/through-mesmerising-canada.html
Tuesday, March 6, 2018
Theatre, a strategy to raise awareness about public policy challenges
Being a communication person, I always look for means to communicate effectively. I found this opportunity when a theatre group called Kriyative Theatre presented a play titled, "Carbon Cake" which primarily addressed the topic on reducing emission intensity of India’s GDP by 33-35% by 2030, as against a baseline of 2005. I had the opportunity of writing a blog article with Dr. Prasoon Agarwal, who was based in Delhi as the Senior Advisor at Global Green Growth Institute (GGGI). You can read more about this at https://www.politicsandideas.org/?p=3042.
How can we improve feedback?
This is a blog article I wrote. As an Editor one of my key task is to provide feedback, of course, there have been instances where I have been at the receiving end too. In order to improve my skills on providing feedback, I decided to write this blog article. How can we improve feedback? http://www.politicsandideas.org/?p=3582
Nimege Englishu Barutha? (Can You Speak English?)
It is so funny and ironical that how we have been forced to
embrace the English language, thanks to the advancement in technology. Due to
my role as a Consultant I need to travel often to meet my prospective and existing
clients. Since I do not have the luxury of having a driver (for lack of not
finding an appropriate one), though I do own a car, I have become a compulsive
user of Uber and Ola.
Travel in Bengaluru, in today’s context cannot be measured
by time. Your measurement tools are traffic jams, work being done by the
various government departments, since they choose to dig/close roads at
different times. A road can either be closed, diverted or sometimes even
unapproachable.
How do I engage myself in this uncertain travel time? (I am
sure many of you have ways to entertain yourself). I try and listen to music
and play some games on my mobile phone. Then I start reading the licence
information, checking names, expiry date and then of course see if the id
photograph matches he face of the driver. Once, I noticed that my auto driver
was a young lad (perhaps around 18years of age) but the id showed the face of a
45-50-year-old man. When I questioned the young lad, he said that this is his
uncle’s auto and he drives it occasionally to earn some pocket money. When I
asked him if he has a licence he said no. I quietly asked him to stop the
vehicle and told him that he needs to get a licence issued in his name.
Now that I need to go twice a week, it has become compulsive
to travel by an Ola or Uber. So this is where the use of the English word
comes. Conversations are sprinkled with “GPS
work agodila Sar”. “Phone discharge
agide”. “Mobile top madubeku”.
Then of course an amusing aspect is if you don’t know
Kannada then just add leftu, rightu, straightu adding a u at the end of an English word (well almost all
words) will become a Kannada word.
Other conversations include drop elli Sar? and pick up
elli Sar? Fullu traffic jamu, short
cut nalli hogthini. Ola money na ila
casha?
I guess today education may not be a priority for many
people, but learning some basic English words and giving it a twist with local
flavour has become the norm of the day. If your need to earn a leaving become
adaptable, flexible to help with your excellent customer-service skills.
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