<![CDATA[Ideas Worth Spreading  - Archives]]>Mon, 30 Apr 2012 21:19:13 -0800Weebly<![CDATA[April 2012: Bittu Sahgal]]>Mon, 30 Apr 2012 20:17:00 -0800http://www.tedxasb.com/3/post/2012/04/april-2012-bittu-sahgal1.htmlTopic: Seeking Sanctuary
Description: The talk focuses on Bittu Sahgal’s journey down three decades of Sanctuary Asia and links tigers and biodiversity with climate change and the quality of human existence.

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]]><![CDATA[April 2012 TED Talk]]>Mon, 30 Apr 2012 20:15:49 -0800http://www.tedxasb.com/3/post/2012/04/april-2012-ted-talk.htmlSarah Kay: If I should have a daughter ...

"If I should have a daughter, instead of Mom, she's gonna call me Point B ... " began spoken word poet Sarah Kay, in a talk that inspired two standing ovations at TED2011. She tells the story of her metamorphosis -- from a wide-eyed teenager soaking in verse at New York's Bowery Poetry Club to a teacher connecting kids with the power of self-expression through Project V.O.I.C.E. -- and gives two breathtaking performances of "B" and "Hiroshima."


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]]><![CDATA[April 2012: Sanjeev Lamba]]>Mon, 30 Apr 2012 20:11:43 -0800http://www.tedxasb.com/3/post/2012/04/april-2012-sanjeev-lamba1.htmlTopic: Live the Life of Your Dreams
Description: Everybody has dreams. To turn your dreams into reality, however, takes courage, conviction, a readiness to take chances and the strength to follow your own course through life. Sanjeev Lamba dreamt of a life associated with movies when he was a teenager. It took him 20 years and moving to 4 countries to realise his dream. Today, as the CEO of Reliance Entertainment, he has been involved in some of the biggest movies of the past few years in India. In this talk, he shared his experiences and the lessons he has learnt along the way in making his dreams come true.

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]]><![CDATA[February 2012: Hinesh Jethwani]]>Mon, 30 Apr 2012 20:10:04 -0800http://www.tedxasb.com/3/post/2012/04/february-2012-hinesh-jethwani1.htmlTopic: Erosion of Cultural Identities
Description: In his presentation, Hinesh Jethwani talked about how the world is slowly losing hold of age-old, cherished cultural practices due to rapid modernization and an increasingly prevalent self-centered perspective. The desire to surge ahead, no matter what the implications, is eroding cultural identities as we know it.

Hinesh talked about the importance of retaining cultural identities, and will describe his endeavor to retain the age-old craft of hand painted Bollywood movie posters. His two year old venture Indian Hippy, works with some of the last few surviving Bollywood movie poster artists in India with a core social responsibility and commitment towards breathing fresh life into this virtually extinct art form, and in doing so, provides a means of employment to the last surviving artists in the trade.

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]]><![CDATA[February 2012: Devdutt Pattanaik]]>Mon, 30 Apr 2012 20:08:57 -0800http://www.tedxasb.com/3/post/2012/04/february-2012-devdutt-pattanaik1.htmlTopic: Not quite Avatar
Description: How the discourse of transforming traditions looks at human beings very cosmetically.....we change superficially but not systemically .....how the 'global' template is actually a 'linear' template that is being imposed on other 'linear cultures' and the Indian cyclical culture....how this is cultural imperialism is institutionalized and so faceless....we do not even realize we are the imperialist....to demonstrate this the talk shows how the internet Avatar and the James Cameroon Avatar have nothing to do with the Hindu concept of Avatar...Vishnu is not Batman!....and yet that is the global assumption where the Indian view, which is the source, is gagged and mocked and comes across as aberration.

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]]><![CDATA[February 2012: Lakshmi Pratury]]>Mon, 30 Apr 2012 20:07:14 -0800http://www.tedxasb.com/3/post/2012/04/february-2012-lakshmi-pratury1.htmlTopic: Moving into the Future while taking the Traditions along
Description: India, as a country, as a culture, as a community is not one idea that can be explained easily. It is a concept that is on the move, that is ever changing and evolving.  In this talk, Lakshmi created a context for India's race toward modernity while taking its centuries old tradition along.

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]]><![CDATA[February 2012 TED Talk]]>Mon, 30 Apr 2012 20:05:50 -0800http://www.tedxasb.com/3/post/2012/04/february-2012-ted-talk.htmlHarsha Bhogle: The rise of cricket, the rise of India

The tale of a major global cultural phenomenon: Cricket commentator Harsha Bhogle describes the spectacular arrival of fast-paced 20-20 cricket as it parallels the rise of modern India. He traces the game from its sleepy English roots to the current world of celebrity owners and million-dollar player contracts.
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]]><![CDATA[February 2012: Tālavya]]>Sun, 04 Mar 2012 23:09:48 -0800http://www.tedxasb.com/3/post/2012/03/february-2012-tlavya1.html_Topic: Transforming Perceptions of Classical Music
Description: A teacher's pain created new music.  The artists of Tālavya shared the story of their maestro, teacher and composer - Pandit Divyang Vakil as he set to transform perceptions of Indian classical music and perform a segment of his work that emerged from the process.

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]]><![CDATA[February 2012: Safeena Husain]]>Sun, 04 Mar 2012 20:53:04 -0800http://www.tedxasb.com/3/post/2012/03/february-2012-safeena-husain.html_Topic: Rejuvenating Government Schools
Description: A lack of infrastructure, missing teachers and poor quality of education in government schools keep many parents from sending their children to school, especially girls. In rural Rajasthan, only 1 in 100 girls makes it to class 12 and only 15% of children can read a simple story. In her presentation Educate Girls founder Safeena Husain demonstrated with practical, first-hand experience how she creates a sustainable environment for empowerment within the communities that leads to systemic change in the Indian educational scenario.
To view the full video of our February 2012 TEDxASB event, please click here.
]]><![CDATA[October 2011 TED Cafe]]>Thu, 13 Oct 2011 03:00:28 -0800http://www.tedxasb.com/3/post/2011/10/october-2011-ted-cafe.html
In this charming short talk, artist Raghava KK demos his new children's book for iPad with a fun feature: when you shake it, the story -- and your perspective -- changes.  He invites all of us to shake up our perspective a little bit.  Discussion to follow.

Watch Raghava's TED Talk and reflect and respond to the following question:

  1. Have you had an experience where you felt that your perspective was missing from the picture?  How did that make you feel?
  2. What are some examples of how you try to consider perspectives other than your own in your life?
  3. What are some examples of "perspectives" that are over-represented?  
  4. What is your main "take away" from this talk?

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