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Workshop on dynamism for teenagers

Abhishek Ratna, a dynamic and one of the youngest teachers of the Youth Empowerment Seminar (YES!), will be in town next week to conduct a workshop for the teens. Abhishek, who did his schooling at the Abu Dhabi Indian School and his undergraduate education from the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Delhi, is an analyst at the Ohio-based Timken Company.

He has been the school head boy, a distinction holder in Mathematics Olympiads, a gold medallist at inter college and corporate basketball tournaments, a guitarist with his college band, a debater, and is presently a teacher of the Art of Living programmess

Abhishek will be in Muscat from May 1 to 5, and he will assist teens find peaceful dynamism — to move forward in life with peace, confidence and a willingness to help society.

More : timesofoman.com

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