Interesting to note that this is the second of its kind I read about today. The other was for TEDxSV where they had asked people to make a 3 minute presentation on what they could talk on TED. Now here the World Economic Forum has teamed with youtube and now asks you to pitch to the world on an important issue to be taken up … Continue reading Pitch The World: Davos Debates 2010 Opens On YouTube
Self Reliance and self sufficiency are always a topic. It is so amazing to see how technology and innovation in its raw form can make a change to common life. While we run around with mobiles and laptops thinking that we hold the world in our hands we often forget the wisdom of the past that gave birth to extraordinary innovation even in the commonest … Continue reading Anupam Mishra on Water Harvesting
When ever a story is being told a new story is being weaved by each listener who in turn becomes a part of this new story. the original story is then retold by the listener to himself over and over so much that the original story gains a more personal significance for the listener. What I mean is that every story sparks creativity within every … Continue reading Amy Tan on Creativity
I am sure everyone who watched this video would have taken more than a moment to grapple with the horror. But it is the truth and is presented by someone who has gone through it. Dr. Sunitha’s call to all is not in just rescuing, but rehabilitating. And that is where each and every one of us can contribute in one way or other She … Continue reading Comment on Dr. Sunitha’s TED Talk
Puzzles are so fun to solve and here is someone who finds it lot more fun to make them. In the world of puzzles in our real world, many of us are more creators like Scott rather than solvers. We create puzzles of seemly simple things and get lost in it unable to solve them. And then there will come a genius telling how stupid … Continue reading Comment of Scott Kim’s TED Talk
Recently Mallika Sarabhai’s talk on TED stirred quite a bit of controversy among the video viewers and the comments community. The dislike raised by many was how she presented her case and the examples she sited. While you can make your judgment viewing the talk, here are my opinions, and views I commented on the same Hatred can be sprung from anything based on what … Continue reading On Mallika Sarabhai’s TED Talk
Sholay is one of the greatest Bollywood movies of all time. Though inspired by Kurosawa’s Seven Samurai; Sholay brings to screen a similar theme with all the bollywood ingredients including songs, dance and action. Sholay brought to Bollywood a totally new genre of action, what Magnificent Seven had bought to Hollywood. A set of very capable but misfits and outlaws uniting to fight a greater … Continue reading Sholay – An Indian Movie Pride
“Murmuring I hear, not audible I say Each step I take the farther I am pushed” Life is so full of things that mean nothing and then when you find something to which you can attach a meaning it disappears. When it reappears you don’t recognize it, it’s irrelevant for your interests have changed and you have been chasing some new fulfillment. But that is … Continue reading The Brute will tire, the human spirit won’t
Life gets so too eventful unable to be expressed completely. An interesting phase to be, when family and work makes you so immersed that you don’t have time for your silly hobbies and fooling around. The new entrant into the family had been keeping us all busy as I write, so has been my clients, colleagues, friends and all others. What happened in last few … Continue reading The Mirror, The Flight and You
Movie needs a variety, I believe that the fact of being stereo typed is not just for actors or directors or script writers, we as avid viewers also should not be stereo typed in what we pick to see. Be it the theme or language, so today’s treat for your eyes is the Farsi movie by the Iranian/Canadian director Babak Payami, Secret Ballot (Raye makhfi) … Continue reading Secret Ballot (Raye makhfi)
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