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Member Spotlight: Dnyaneshwar Shirode
Warm greetings from BCFAI! Over the course of this Spotlight Interview series, we had the privilege of featuring outstanding individuals,...

Jayasree Menon
Feb 175 min read


Intercultural content in Indian classrooms: let the churn continue
It’s 25th December. You see a group of villagers in colourful clothes making a beeline for a modest, peach-coloured building. They take...

Dolon Gupta
Jan 215 min read


Member Spotlight: Archana Parmar
In this New Year Spotlight, we feature Archana Parmar, a certified communication coach, master in leadership communication and...

Jayasree Menon
Jan 134 min read


Member Spotlight: Tannistha Dasgupta
Introducing Tannistha Dasgupta, a living symbol of life’s dynamic journey. Her life resembles like a river carving its way through...

Jayasree Menon
Dec 16, 20244 min read


Do you speak Indian?
Imagine a situation where you invite someone for an event, in India. Some come back with a prompt Yes; very few say No; quite a few say...

Dolon Gupta
Dec 2, 20247 min read


An Indian mindset! What’s that!
The wedding season is upon us, in India. This means that while navigating the maddening, slow, noisy traffic, our ears suddenly pick up...

Dolon Gupta
Nov 25, 20247 min read


Member Spotlight: Deepti Maurya
Meet Deepti Maurya, a dynamic personality with over 21 years of expertise, certified coach and master trainer. She has guided several...

Jayasree Menon
Nov 18, 20243 min read


Member Spotlight: Neha Srivastava
Neha Srivastava, Editor in Chief of SheSight Magazine shares the pivotal moments of her life. Her memoir narrates and explains how she...

Jayasree Menon
Oct 14, 20245 min read


Intercultural Studies: What's that!
When I tell people in India that I’m engaged in something called intercultural communication, I see puzzled faces - ‘What’s that! Do you...

Dolon Gupta
Oct 2, 20247 min read


Member Spotlight: Geeta Ajit
Read how Ms. Geeta Ajit always followed her inner voice with sheer perseverance and resilience with a special mantra and grit. What...

Jayasree Menon
Sep 17, 20244 min read


Member Spotlight: Vaani Savani
Vaani Savani's story is how the power of language and empathy helps in bridging gaps and building a more connected world. Through her, we...

Jayasree Menon
Aug 12, 20243 min read


Member Spotlight: Rohit Das
After a range of successful blogs, BCFAI is excited to start the New series in 2024! Welcome to our Member Spotlight Series! This series...

Jayasree Menon
Jul 15, 20244 min read
#mailfail-9: Whose Perspective is it? - Signing off
Why do emails fail? What could be the reasons? Are they the consequence of a lack of technical knowledge, such as bloopers made by...

BCFAI Admin
Aug 8, 20233 min read
#mailfail 8: Personalisation
In today's digital age, email has become one of the primary means of communication. Whether it's for business purposes, marketing...

Dipti
Jul 31, 20233 min read
#mailfail 7: Oops, I Did It Again: Autocorrect Fails
Do you hate Autocorrect as much as I do? It has ruined my emails and my reputation many times. In this article, I share some of my worst...

Neha Srivastava
Jul 24, 20233 min read
#mailfail 6: When my Trust grows, my sentences grow shorter
Only five years ago, I prematurely assumed that e-mails would soon be a thing of the Past… Why opt for uncalled-for complexity,...

Sujata Banerjee
Jul 17, 20233 min read
#mailfail 5: “Reply All”: An Important Yet Underrated Tool of a Mail
In a graduate program, an accidental “Reply All” email caused hilarity when a student responded eagerly to a reading request, followed by...

Dr. Ritu Pareek
Jul 10, 20233 min read
#mailfail 4: They said it!
This blog unravels how “e-mails@e-ducation” released non-stop unintended comedy # the Corona Context. Auto-correction by the g-mail,...

Pratima Agnihotri
Jul 4, 20233 min read
#mailfail 3: You’ve got (fail) mail!
Have you ever wished that your laptop or phone had superpowers? And that it could retrieve/recall or replace a sent email even after the...

Dr. Shraddha Joshi
Jun 27, 20233 min read


#mailfail 2: The curious case of out-of-office responses
Mid-April 2023. It was that time of the year when I would go to attend the IATEFL Annual Conference (this time in Harrogate). If you have...

Shweta Paropkari
Jun 20, 20233 min read
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