by Shantanu | Aug 14, 2023 | Consultancy Services, Experiential Education, Hiking In The Himalayas, Hiking in the Indian Western Ghats, Outdoor Leadership, Outdoor Skills, Risk Management
“Control what you can, to face what you can’t” – Shantanu Pandit This article briefly states a few basic level considerations that can guide an organisation’s systematic management of risks in its various programmes. Risk management in adventure...
by Shantanu | Jul 7, 2022 | Pundit – Fun & Time-pass!
“Out of the quarrel with others we make rhetoric; out of the quarrel with ourselves we make poetry” – William Butler Yeats I write this in the middle of a Writer’s Block. It’s a weird place to be in, or is it time to be in? Whatever it is, fact remains that I...
by Shantanu | Mar 22, 2022 | Experiential Education, Outdoor Leadership, Risk Management
‘Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful committed citizens can change the world.” – Margaret Mead It was in 1986 that I joined a group of hikers, rock climbers and mountaineers in Mumbai, as a young and naïve enthusiast in his mid-twenties. And sure enough, I...
by Shantanu | Feb 5, 2022 | Pundit – Fun & Time-pass!, Risk Management
Hazards can be exciting challenges and a lot of fun! It was in a Wodehouse that I first came across the word ‘repose’ and I still remember how I immediately liked the word. Some words spark off an affinity for them in me. They just sound right, have a ring to them or...
by Shantanu | Nov 17, 2021 | Consultancy Services, Risk Management
These thoughts are a direct result of a course titled ‘Risk Management for Outdoor Programs’ conducted by “Viristar” which I attended in June 2021 and a subsequent discussion initiated by Jeff Baierlein, the creator of the course and our facilitator on the course. It...
