TEDxChennai Exp

As a believer in the power of ideas and collaborations, I am a big fan of TED talks. They are very inspiring and thought provoking. I had the opportunity to attend an independently organized TED event - TEDxChennai and the experience was simply awesome. Being amongst so many wonderful people who are doing some great work is truly inspiring.

Apart from talking to the amazing speakers, I also had the opportunity to interact with very nice people like the Co-Founder of Rang De, a young musician from Chennai, a budding entrepreneur, few BITSians and many more wonderful people.

Personally for me Romulus, N. Vittal, Kavita Baliga, Dr. Santhosh Babu, Satyabrata Dam, R.Madhavan were the best (in no particular order). While the performance by Anil and Sikkil was beautiful.

You have to be there to feel the energy around. It's a day I will not forget in a long time.

The best part of this event was bringing together speakers and people from diverse backgrounds on to a single stage. A big bow to Kiruba and the organizing team for putting together a brilliant show. These guys certainly set the bar high for other TEDx event organizers.

The next TEDxChennai event is scheduled for 10/10/10. Don't miss it.

Find the list of upcoming TEDx events here.

Get Inspired and Get Going :)

Rainbow

But this is what my 2 MP mobile camera can capture :)

At 16 Babar Ali is the Head Master of a School

Here is an incredible story of a 16 year old head master (youngest in the world) Babar Ali, who runs an unofficial school for 800 stydents in Murshidabad, West Bengal. These 800 kids wouldn't have had a chance at education without this great chap. Kudos to him!!

"In the beginning I was just play-acting, teaching my friends," Babar Ali says, "but then I realised these children will never learn to read and write if they don't have proper lessons. It's my duty to educate them, to help our country build a better future."

Incase you missed it, here is the link to the speech given by Chris Anderson - the curator of TED to the students of Woodstock School where he spent seven years of his life.

Some words from his speech that are so true "... and without even really thinking about it, you learn that those superficial differences of race, nationality, color really don't matter that much. We're all just people. We all laugh, we all cry, we all love, we all bleed."

iMo

iMo is an Indian startup that was selected for the TechCrunch 50 2009 finals. They developed an iPhone/iPod Touch app which converts the iPhone into a video game controller.It works with existing PC video games giving it a Wii like experience. They are just a team of 2 and they won the best presentation award at TC50. Awesome presentation it is...check it for yourself.



Waiting to see more Indian startups to develop ubercool products/apps/technologies and showcase them at these big platforms.

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