The Artist, the Storyteller, the voice-over artist - different words to describe our guest for the 3rd episode -Kafeel Jafri. Born and brought up in Lucknow, Kafeel has ingrained the #Lucknowi language and culture through mehfils, mushairas and other literary events.
On the professional end of the spectrum - We speak about the transformation from an investment banker to a corporate culture exponential learner bringing theatre art to engage in culture transformation for organisations.
On the Artist's end - He has done about 100 shows of various plays across Bangalore, Pune, Hyderabad, Lucknow, Goa and Delhi. Born and brought up in Lucknow, Kafeel Imbibed the Urdu language and culture from his elder and literary gatherings - Mehfils and Mushairas.
He specialises in a 13th-century Urdu oral storytelling art form called Dastangoi (Urdu: داستان گوئی)
Apart from plays, he has also conceptualised and performed shows around Urdu literature. Some of these shows are Life and works of Faiz, An evening of Ghalib and his Ghazals, Manto ki Kahaniyan and Urdu Shayari aur Ganga-Jamni Tehzeeb.
Enjoy listening to this easy-flowing conversation on the 3rd episode.
For the second episode - we go geeky and invite a tech guru to talk to us - Welcome Amrit Sanjeev - Staff Developer Advocate for Google and a tech guru on Android.
Amrit is a self-taught techie who is an inspiration and guide to many developers in the Android Developer Community. His curiosity and indulgence in technology started early in his career. He joined as a junior engineer in IBM to rise to the position of IT architect before moving from IBM to other journeys with Philips, Intuit and finally Google Inc.
His learning journey evolved into the skills that make him a tech guru today. We speak to him about his learning journey from academics and the tech skills students and freshers need to be curious about. We talk to him about android skills and the learning paths for new learners
For our first episode - Ms KANAN TANDI - a young founder of an AI startup, a lifelong learner whose academics started with Arts and then to a communication management MBA. She is also an MS in psychology and an expert trainer in micro-expressions, body language and emotional intelligence.
She believes in empowering everyone to be capable of handling communication and collaboration with confidence and the power of technology to create equal opportunities and prevent biases for the section of society which needs it most today.