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The Road to Senior Supervisor: A 34-Year Journey of Engineering, Challenges, and Triumphs

By Mr. Peddada Appala Raju Can you share how your journey began? What was your first role in this company, and how did it lead to your current position as Senior Supervisor in Engineering? Starting as an Electrician at THE PARK, I developed a solid foundation in electrical systems. With dedication and a focus on continuous learning, I advanced to Technician, deepening my technical expertise. Embracing … Continue reading The Road to Senior Supervisor: A 34-Year Journey of Engineering, Challenges, and Triumphs

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Retail, Tea

Brewing Change: A veteran’s perspective on tea, transformation, and the future of beverages

By Mr. Subrata Mukerji. After decades in the tea industry, what has been the most rewarding part of your career as the former business head? Looking back on my time with Typhoo, I’m filled with pride. What began as an idea has grown into a brand loved by tea enthusiasts everywhere. As former business head, I’ve seen first-hand how excitement, challenges, and joy have shaped … Continue reading Brewing Change: A veteran’s perspective on tea, transformation, and the future of beverages

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Community Blogs, Hospitality

A Career Built on Hard Work: Insights from Over Three Decades with Apeejay

By Mr. Singampalli  Purna Chandra Rao. You started your journey in 1978 as a Helper in the Maintenance Department. How did you navigate your early days in the company, and what were some of the challenges you faced? My early days as a helper in the maintenance department were tough. Safety equipment was limited, and working near the blast furnace at Steel Crete, especially in … Continue reading A Career Built on Hard Work: Insights from Over Three Decades with Apeejay

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Community Blogs, Real Estate

A Remarkable Journey: 54 Years of Dedication and Achievement at Apeejay

By Ashok Kumar Jain When did you join Apeejay and what was your first job profile? My journey with Apeejay began in July 1969 when I was just 21 years old. I started as a Business Coordinator at Apeejay Structure Private Limited in Bokaro Rajbandh. My responsibilities included preparing and updating Production Reports for my reporting head, the esteemed Late Mr. Surrendra Paul. This was … Continue reading A Remarkable Journey: 54 Years of Dedication and Achievement at Apeejay

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Real Estate, Shipping

Navigating change and success: 30 years of experience at Apeejay

By Firoz Awadh. What inspired you to join our company 30 years ago, and how has that initial motivation evolved over time? In April 1994, I had the privilege of being interviewed by Ms. Priti Paul, a figure whose optimism about the Apeejay Group’s future left a lasting impression on me. Her enthusiasm and forward-thinking perspective were palpable, and it was evident that she was … Continue reading Navigating change and success: 30 years of experience at Apeejay

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Community Blogs

Anand Art Workshop 2022 -The Way We Feel About It

Art is unquestionably one of the purest and highest elements in human happiness. It trains the mind through the eye, and the eye through the mind. As the sun colors flowers, so does art color life.”  John Lubbok Since Art is not always about pretty things. It’s about who we are, what happened to us, and how our lives are affected that art has become … Continue reading Anand Art Workshop 2022 -The Way We Feel About It

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Hospitality

How to reinvent career and select jobs in the current pandemic

By Shirish Bokde Spending 24 years in academics with total work experience of 30 years out of which 6 years has been spent in the hospitality sector. I have learnt the importance of commitment, Enthusiasm, Leadership skills and necessity of being organised. It’s been 14 and a half years I have been associated with Apeejay Institute of Hospitality. We as a team have worked relentlessly … Continue reading How to reinvent career and select jobs in the current pandemic

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Education

How Apeejay School is safeguarding the mental health of the Teachers and Students to tide over this pandemic and continuing learning

By Kiranjit Singh Pannu Over the last nearly 50 years, Apeejay School – with an unrelenting focus on the emotional, spiritual, physical and mental growth of the child, are enabling learners to imbibe the three powerful virtues of a truly educated individual – Strength, Vision and Wisdom. The schools have won innumerable accolades for academic excellence and its integrated course is an effort to prepare … Continue reading How Apeejay School is safeguarding the mental health of the Teachers and Students to tide over this pandemic and continuing learning

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Insurance

How while working at Apeejay I learnt the importance of ‘Effective Communication’ at the right ‘Time’ is key in Insurance Sector

By Sipra Jana I joined Apeejay Insurance Broking Services Private Limited as a Trainee in the year 2010. Apeejay Insurance Broking Services incorporated in 2004 are experts in Underwriting – including commerciality, coverage and responsiveness; Policy Administration – including timeliness, accuracy and policy wordings; Claims – including attitude, settlement and technical support; General Service – Insurance portfolio analysis, risk assessment and post placement services. Know … Continue reading How while working at Apeejay I learnt the importance of ‘Effective Communication’ at the right ‘Time’ is key in Insurance Sector

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Management Services

Why working at Apeejay Surrendra Management Services is the wind beneath my wings

By Dipanwita Gupta I was designated as Head Corporate Legal and Compliance while Covid ravaged health, livelihoods, top & bottom lines of corporates and economies. Just around 1 year before that, I had been promoted to Deputy General Manager at Apeejay Surrendra Management Services. As I write this blog, I have been working with Apeejay Surrendra Group for 7 years – I’ve achieved a professional … Continue reading Why working at Apeejay Surrendra Management Services is the wind beneath my wings

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Community Blogs

Why a Back to Basic Durga Puja 2020 was just what the doctor ordered!

Durga Puja has been an iconic festival for 100s of years. Not even ten days ago it has won the India Today Tourism Awards for best Festival Destinations followed by Konark Festival in Odisha and Katra in Jammu & Kashmir. For nine years the Government of West Bengal has taken steps to promote it as a landmark event for International and National tourism, presenting it … Continue reading Why a Back to Basic Durga Puja 2020 was just what the doctor ordered!

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Management Services, Tea

Forging ahead with Year III of Apeejay Tea’s Rewards program. How we stay Solid, Inspired, and Committed in the New Normal

By Ramakrishn Ghosh I have just made my most critical hire. We now have a CEO at home. As I write this blog, the new appointee asks me her job description. “Chief Entertainment Officer”, I tell her, “Your job is to keep your grand mom happy & entertained”.  Co-opting my tiny tot baby girl to work harder during the convalescence period of my mother’s serious … Continue reading Forging ahead with Year III of Apeejay Tea’s Rewards program. How we stay Solid, Inspired, and Committed in the New Normal

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Education

Why NEP is a beacon for education and How Apeejay School students and teachers are keeping their Face to the Sun during Covid19 Shutdown.

By Rita Chatterjee Apeejay Schools’ virtual avatar is right now so intense that I feel a great power has been set to motion and like Nicola Tessla’s invention will one day manifest in a burst of lightning and thunder, revealing a wonderful  reality that one only suspected existed. The strengthened emotional and psychological connect, exploring and experimenting with the medium of the future – digital … Continue reading Why NEP is a beacon for education and How Apeejay School students and teachers are keeping their Face to the Sun during Covid19 Shutdown.

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Hospitality

How The Park Hyderabad is winning hearts and staying Anything But Ordinary during the Covid19 pandemic

By Anirban Simlai The Park was the first hotel in Hyderabad to reopen after the initial lockdown. We kick started room business and achieved a huge success in online food delivery but what an experience this has been! A hotelier can work from home, hell and heaven – this is what I told someone who asked “How can a hotelier work from home.” This is … Continue reading How The Park Hyderabad is winning hearts and staying Anything But Ordinary during the Covid19 pandemic

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Hospitality

An Anything But Ordinary FIRST online Graduation Day at Apeejay Institute of Hospitality

By Bhuvan G M The 11th batch of Apeejay Institute of Hospitality graduated yesterday evening in an hour long virtual ceremony. 59 B.Sc Hospitality Studies students, 37 young men and 22 young women graduated this year and joined our robust alumni of 318 so far who have passed out from the portals of AIH since the first graduating batch in 2010. We had already conducted three online rehearsals to … Continue reading An Anything But Ordinary FIRST online Graduation Day at Apeejay Institute of Hospitality

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Logistics

Efficient, Agile, Flexible while increasing business, how Apeejay Logistics Parks stay robust during Covid 19.

By Rajiv Ranjan Kumar From services to essential services, Covid19 has changed the logistics industry’s role in the economy. Apeejay Logistics Parks have been fully operational throughout the lock down, kept commerce in their regions moving, responding quickly and efficiently to the requirements of MSMEs and large customer supply chain demands. Not until this pandemic did we or anyone realize the critical role logistics plays … Continue reading Efficient, Agile, Flexible while increasing business, how Apeejay Logistics Parks stay robust during Covid 19.

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Tea

“Masks off” … Liven up, rejuvenate with a cup of Typhoo … while we “Shelter at Home” during Covid 19 !

By Subrata Mukerji In my professional Journey of 45 + years in Music, FMCG and Real Estate, the last decade with Typhoo India under Apeejay Surrendra Group is the most eventful period of my career. To see Typhoo combat Covid 19 with great team work is a feat for me to watch. As I look back on the journey I embarked on Typhoo , I … Continue reading “Masks off” … Liven up, rejuvenate with a cup of Typhoo … while we “Shelter at Home” during Covid 19 !

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Hospitality

Shaken not Stirred, The Park Kolkata serves with an open heart and a S.H.I.E.L.D.

By Pramode Bhandari I recently completed 15 years with The Park Hotels. As I look back, I can see a journey full of learning, fun, challenges and fabulous days of victory. From ‘Stay Inspired” to “Anything but Ordinary”, it has truly been an amazing journey so far. The Vision of the organisation, “leadership through differentiation” has been the foundation of my entire journey with The … Continue reading Shaken not Stirred, The Park Kolkata serves with an open heart and a S.H.I.E.L.D.

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Real Estate

Park Street cannot sleep. It can only rest! I remain upbeat about Apeejay Real Estate despite Covid 19

By Shouvik Mandal I sit here in my office on Park Street at our headquarters Apeejay House in Calcutta, looking back at the tumultuous months since March. A human sanitizing tunnel buzzes at entrance a few floors below with all our frontline staff in PPE kits shielding themselves and everyone else from Covid 19. This flagship Apeejay property and all others have been operating since … Continue reading Park Street cannot sleep. It can only rest! I remain upbeat about Apeejay Real Estate despite Covid 19

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Retail

#NewSpirit in the #NewNormal keeps Oxford Bookstore and Cha Bar ahead of the curve

Having started off my journey at Oxford Bookstore almost 20 years back, albeit with a break in between… it had seemed to me that I have seen all that can happen to us. I have seen the brand grow from being respected to revered, from a regional to a national, from being a bookstore to a literary platform. I have witnessed many new journeys in … Continue reading #NewSpirit in the #NewNormal keeps Oxford Bookstore and Cha Bar ahead of the curve

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