Personalities like Nandita Das, Anu Aggarwal, Sujata Rao, Ayan Ali Khan and many more were there! The date was 6th December and the occasion was an event held in the spirit of ideas worth spreading organised by TEDx WalledCity under the roof of India Habitat Centre, New Delhi, where speakers with their revolutionizing ideas come together to generate a spark in our minds, spark of humanity, caring and the thought of our future. A Fair Chance, for one and all.
What is TEDx, one might wonder!
TED is a non-profit organization which is devoted to the ideas Worth Spreading, started 26 years back in California has now taken a very wide channel all over the world. TEDx (x= independently organized TED event) is a local offshoot of TED. It is a program of local, self-organized events that bring people together to share a TED-like experience. The various ideas and ideologies are presented by the dreamers who define their motive and work behind the ideas that will cater to our future needs, change the way we think and try creating a difference in the world. TEDx WalledCity brings together these movers and forward thinkers from Delhi that are as fascinating and accomplished as the speaker themselves.
Speakers at the TEDx WalledCity included Nandita Das, Sujatha Rao, Anu Aggarwal, Eben Johnson, Dr. Vikram Soni, William Meara, Neeraj Jain, Vamsi Krishna, Hemal Trivedi, Gaurav Dalal, Ayan Ali Khan, Vineeh Vincent, Diva Sharma, Harsh Mandar, Enakshi Ganguly & Bharti Ali and Yogesh Jain.
Each speaker was prepared and set to try to give the best presentation of their lives. Backed by their previous experiences and confident in their ideas, the speakers gave a short 15-18 mins’ presentation for the public to hear from a wide range of perspectives.
“Change will happen if we want ourselves exposed. All of us have many different identities, and it is up to us what we chose to be best at”, quoted Nandita Das as the first speaker of the event.
The event was attended by a large number of audiences with the auditorium full of people and those who were late, end up getting the last benches.
“Turn off your mobile phones! Take a break with me, just relax” was the next appeal made by William Meara. “Mobile phones are nowadays the weapons of mass destructions”, he said.
Ideas were shared, from managing the human shit to the Indian Classical Music, from ideological conflicts in Pakistan to the android applications that will change the ideas of connecting to people.
The event was very well hosted and organizers seemed quite satisfied with the well going of the event. Watching audience having fun and getting to learn things was quite appealing to the eyes. They were very well entertained and given a lesson in quite small time, a lesson for a better life, a lesson for better future!
The purpose of TEDx WalledCity is to keep sharing such great interesting ideas and new ways of seeing things. It wasn’t about the Glitter and glitz, it was about what people have gone through, what could be saved from the loss and what meaning they are adding to lives!