Travel Stories and Life Events
Initially I was under the impression that the famous Oxford University will be at one place..later I came to know there are number of colleges around the city are part of Oxford University.. scattered throughout the city centre and around the town. Undergraduate teaching at the university consists of lectures, small-group tutorials at the colleges and halls, seminars, laboratory … Read more
While going around Oxford city where i met Maureen Roberts who was Director HR and Admin in Oxfam head office in Delhi..Maureen used to visit all field offices and i had the opportunity of meeting her a number of times during OITSA..oxfam staff association ..meetings…in fact i met her in Oxfam headquarters in Oxford and … Read more
Trafalgar Square in London is one of the very popular squares. This is in Central London and this location is very popular for feral pigeons. Whenever you come to this place you will find large gathering of pigeons and people take pictures of these and tourists are allowed to feed them. I am happy to … Read more
We had an annual review and team building exercise done at Gopalpur, Ganjam. In this all Oxfam Bhubaneswar staff participated – this was done immediately after the 2000 flood relief and rehabilitation. Since this was done for all the staff including the relief and rehabilitation staff. In addition to individual introductions, sharing of experiences. This … Read more
Immediately after Tsunami I joined Save the Children UK as Finance and Grants Officer in Sri Lanka in 2005….I was posted in Matara the southern province in Sri Lanka….Like southern province other parts of Sri Lanka like Trincomalai,Batticolai,Ampara, were most affected..in south Galle,Hiikaduwa,Matara and some stress o Ambantota were affected…Pascale Benchayat (she is a Frech … Read more
I first met Joe Human in Oxfam Bangalore where Oxfam conducted a training programme on staff development related where Joe was the facilitator. I can remember exactly UT was my early days in Oxfam..I was very young straight from college..sometime early 1980s….doesn’t have much exposure . Then after that Joe and his wife came to … Read more
OITSA – OXFAM India Trust Staff Association – Oxfam has its field officies all over India – to name Hyderabad,Lucknow,Kolkata,Bhubaneswar,Ahmedabad and Bangalore. Since Oxfam has a large number of staff across these State level offices above. Oxfam has its headquarters in Oxford, UK. Since Oxfam has been working since 1942 – has been the top … Read more
Two pieces of Two Rupee note in Ahmedabad While working for Oxfam I had to attend a workshop in Ahmedabad…To reach Ahmedabad I had to take a flight from Kolkata to Mumbai and from there another flight to Ahmedabad…reached late night… my flight to Ahmedabad was cancelled..hence I had to take next morning flight..the airlines … Read more
As i may have mentioned in my previous posts that i was selected at Block level (The Block Education Officer ask for some student names who can participate in a competitive exam. From our school few students were selected and i was one of them. The day the exam took place our school teacher took … Read more
As I mentioned in my previous post our village got electricity..May be it was around 1975…now I feel we were lucky to have electricity as even today after 76 years or so of our Independence still many villages have no electricity connections…who are responsible…you all know so I won’t mention here.. what I learnt till … Read more