| | JULY 20208EXPERTS TALKA couple of months ago, I came across a news item about a 10-year-old girl from Guwahati, Assam, who won two golds and a silver med-al in rhythmic gymnastics in a national school level competition. Upasa Niku Talukdar won golds as the best gymnast and for the `ball routine' at the CBSE National Gymnastics meet in Haryana last Novem-ber. The silver was for her `clubs routine'. While this in itself was a huge achievement, what grabbed my attention was that she never had a formal trainer. She learnt the sports watching Russian Olympic gym-nasts on YouTube.Her father was completely taken aback when one day he saw her scratching her ear with her toes. On asking where did she pick-up that kind of amazing flexibility, she replied that she had been watching videos of Olympians like Ukrainians, Anna Bes-sonova, Ekaterina Serebrianskaya and Tamara Yer-DIGITAL DRONACHARYA ­ THE INTERNET OF SKILLSBy Amitabh Ray, Managing Director, Ericsson Global Services India, EricssonA TEDX Keynote Speaker & Contributor, Amitabh has been associated with Ericsson for over a decade now, prior to which he held the role of Vice President at IBM, and Partner at Price Water house Coopers.THOUGHT LEADERSHIP
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