Personal life
Abhijit Bhaduri was raised in New Delhi. He completed his schooling from St. Xavier's School, Delhi. Bhaduri is a BA Honors (Economics) from Shri Ram College of Commerce of the Delhi University and a Post Graduate in Human Resources from the prestigious XLRI, Jamshedpur and an LLB from Delhi University, India.
An avid blogger, Bhaduri's blog posts appear under the Human Capital Exchange section of The Conference Board and for the Times of India. [4] His website is listed in the Directory of Top Blogs in India [5] and Most Widely Read Indian Bloggers. [6] Bhaduri has illustrated several books and is an amateur cartoonist.
Bhaduri also made a brief appearance in the 2007 Bollywood film Apna Aasman [7] starring Irrfan, Anupam Kher, Rajat Kapoor and Shobana. He has acted in plays staged in India, Kuala Lumpur and US. While in US he compered a radio show called Movie Magic. He has appeared in the web series Half Pants Full Pants .
Abhijit Bhaduri is married to Nandini. They have two children, Eshna and Abhishek.
Career
Abhijit Bhaduri was the Chief Learning Officer for the Wipro group. He lives in Bangalore, India. Prior to this he has led HR teams at Microsoft, Pepsi, Colgate and Tata Steel and worked in India, South East Asia and US. Between 1989 and 1994, Bhaduri taught HR at his alma-mater, XLRI, Jamshedpur.
Bhaduri is on the advisory board of the program for chief learning officers that is run by the University of Pennsylvania.
Bhaduri's successful stint as the CLO of Wipro appeared as the cover story/page of the Chief Learning Officer Magazine (July 2013 edition). [8]
His writings have appeared on HBR Ascend, [1] The Wall Street Journal, [9] The Economic Times, [10] the Hindu Business Line, People Matters, [11] [12] Operations Research & Management Sciences Today. [13] He has been quoted in Knowledge@Wharton [14] and journals like Organizational Dynamics. [15]
Bhaduri is a regular speaker. Among his prominent speeches are the ones at the Lift Conference in Geneva [16] and at TEDx Gurgaon. [17] [18]
Books
Bhaduri's first novel, Mediocre But Arrogant [19] is a story about love and life in a Business School.
The book has featured in several best-seller lists – including The Hindu , [20] NDTV.com just trailing Da Vinci Code, Crossword Book Store Chain Fiction Best-Sellers list according to the Deccan Herald. [21]
Bhaduri's second novel in the MBA Series, Married But Available, [22] published by HarperCollins, follows the life of the protagonist Abbey through the first ten years of his life as a Human Resources professional.
Both of these books are expansions of the acronym MBA.
His third book is a non-fiction book, Don't HireThe Best, [23] published by HarperCollins India is a guide to picking the right team. The book explains why personality fit with the role and culture is the only way successful hiring can happen. Abhijit Bhaduri dwells into how a manager should pay heed to qualification, experience, competence and personality while recruiting and the secrets of good hiring. The book is seen as a practitioner's guide to better hiring. His advice on how to write a resume appears in Harvard Business Review Ascend. [24]
His fourth book - The Digital Tsunami [25] has been described by Forbes [26] as, "The fun of the book, however, comes in 29 full-page sketches that Bhaduri injects along the way. Suddenly we're transported into a comic-book world in which adults are doing handstands, children are waving banners, and giant ice cream cones tower over tiny boats. Shoot me for reading the book this way, but each time I started a new chapter, I shamelessly jumped ahead to the next sketch before going back to read the text." Forbes referred to the visual appeal of the book when it described the 29 Sketchnotes as, "I've Seen Our Digital Future, In These 29 Zany Sketches."
In 2016, Abhijit Bhaduri wrote a chapter on Leadership Lessons from Feluda. The book was Feluda@50 [27] edited by Boria Majumdar.
In 2017, Abhijit Bhaduri wrote an article on "Make Sure Your Resume Survives the Six-Seconds Test" on HBR Ascend. [24] His fifth book - Dreamers & Unicorns [28] is a go-to book that explores the Before Corona (BC) scenario to advise on the After Disaster (AD) environment on future of work, workers and workplaces."
Feluda is a fictional detective, private investigator created by Indian director and writer Satyajit Ray. Feluda resides at 21 Rajani Sen Road, Ballygunge, Calcutta, West Bengal, India. Feluda first made his appearance in a Bengali children's magazine called Sandesh in 1965, under the editorialship of Ray and Subhas Mukhopadhyay. His first adventure was Feludar Goendagiri. Feluda is one of the most impactful Bengali characters of all time.
SoumitraChatterjee was an Indian film actor, play-director, playwright, writer, thespian and poet. He is regarded as one of the greatest and most influential actors in the history of Indian cinema. He is best known for his collaborations with director Satyajit Ray, with whom he worked in fourteen films.
XLRI – Xavier School of Management is a private business school run by the Society of Jesus (Jesuits) in Jamshedpur, Jharkhand, India. It was founded in 1949 in the steel city of Jamshedpur and is the oldest business school in India. In 2020, the same society has started a new campus in Jhajjar, Delhi.
Balasubramanian Muthuraman is an Indian industrialist, corporate executive, he was the Vice Chairman of Tata Steel, India's largest steel manufacturer and chairman Tata International.
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Royal Bengal Rahashya, The Royal Bengal Mystery, is a 2011 Indian Bengali thriller film directed by Sandip Ray based on the novel of the same name by Satyajit Ray. The film was released on 23 December 2011. It was the fifth big screen Feluda adaptation of Sandip Ray in the Feluda new film series and was the sequel to Gorosthaney Sabdhan. After the demise of Bibhu Bhattacharya (Jatayu), Sabyasachi Chakrabarty declared that he would not be playing Feluda anymore. Thus, director Sandip Ray decided to reboot the series, Badshahi Angti, the first installment of which starring Abir Chatterjee as Feluda and Sourav Das as Topshe was released on 19 December 2014. But the reboot series was cancelled by Sandip Ray in March, 2016. He revealed instead of continuing the reboot series he will continue the previous Feluda film series and he will make a sequel of this movie named Double Feluda which is heading to a Christmas release in December, 2016. The movie will be a tribute to 50 years of Feluda. For the new film Sabyasachi Chakrabarty will return as Feluda and Saheb Bhattacharya as Topshe after five years.
Feluda is an Indian-Bengali detective media franchise created by Indian-Bengali film director and writer Satyajit Ray, featuring the character, Feluda. The titular character is a private investigator starring in a series of Bengali novels and short stories. The detective resides at 21 Rajani Sen Road, Ballygunge, Kolkata, West Bengal, India. Feluda first made his appearance in a Bengali children's magazine called Sandesh (সন্দেশ) in 1965, under the editorialship of Satyajit and Subhas Mukhopadhyay. His first adventure was Feludar Goendagiri.
Harish Iyer, also known as "Aham", hiyer and "Harrish Iyer" is an Indian equal rights activist. Iyer engages in advocacy for a number of causes, including promoting the rights of the lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) community, children, women and survivors of child sexual abuse.
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Krishnakumar Natarajan is one of the co-founders of IT company Mindtree, and was until recently the Executive Chairman of the company. He is currently Managing Partner at Mela Ventures, an early stage venture capital fund in India. He was appointed as the Chairman of NASSCOM for the year 2013–2014. He was earlier a senior executive with Wipro and is an alumnus of XLRI.
Mediocre but Arrogant is a 2005 novel written by Abhijit Bhaduri. It is the first novel of the MBA series. It is a fictional story set in Jamshedpur which documents the life of the protagonist, Abbey, at a Top-notch B-School in Jamshedpur. This is the first novel by Abhijit Bhaduri. His other published works include Married but Available which is the second book in the MBA Series and a management ‘guide-book’- Don’t Hire the Best.
The Mystery of the Pink Pearl is a Bengali detective story written by Satyajit Ray. Feluda is the protagonist of the story. It was first published in Sandesh (magazine), 1989. The story ranks 31st in the Feluda series.
People Matters is an HR media platform founded in 2009. People Matters aims to foster ideas between HR-related professionals. People Matters prints a homonym magazine, online publishing, conducts research and creates events focused on human resources. Abhijit Bhaduri, Anil Khandelwal and Aatish Jaisinghani among others have collaborated and written popular opinion editorials for People Matters.
Madhuri Bhaduri is an Indian artist.
Rishad Premji is an Indian business executive and the son of the former Wipro chairman Azim Premji. He was formerly the Chief Strategy Officer at Wipro and took over as Chairman of Wipro in July 2019.
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