Years ago, I attended a session on cultural sensitivity as a participant. It made intellectual sense. But working from India then, it remained abstract. That changed when I ventured abroad. First to the Maldives. Then to the high seas. Over time, that session began to return to me through experience. The first time I had filled in for my HRD was during one such assignment. I was unfamiliar with Western workplace norms, and this was a period when internet access wasn’t what it