TEDxMumbai is an independently organised TED event happening at Bluefrog, Mumbai on 3rd April, 2010.

TEDxMumbai Videos

Posted: April 20th, 2010 | Author: Ankesh Kothari | Filed under: Uncategorized | 4 Comments »

Session I – Hopes & Dreams

Viren Rasquinha talks about India’s quest for Olympic gold medals and what is needed to help talented sports people become world class and the best in their field.

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Danny Carroll and Anju Venkat talk about the importance of a proper diet. They go on to share some stories of how the right diet has helped in curing various diseases including cancer.

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Anupam Kher, an actor who has worked in over 400 movies, talks about his life and teaches how we should dream big and learn from our failures.

Session II – Wild Life Safari

Professor V Raghunathan uses game theory to explain why Indians behave in a particular way. He uses anecdotes to show why Indians are “privately smart, publicly stupid.”

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Kishor Rithe explains why saving tigers is equivalent to saving people. He goes on to share facts about tigers in India and what is being done for their protection.

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Steven Baker talks about his journey as a Bollywood extra.

Session III – Language Lessons

Nisha Yadav talks about the writing systems of the Indus Valley Civilization. She explains the statistical and computational techniques that are being used to decipher the Indus script.

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Professor Ganesh Devy talks about how languages evolve. And how local Indian languages are dying, taking with them a treasure of historical knowledge and wisdom.

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Dhanashree Pandit-Rai shows that if the 7 notes of music are common all over the world, then why do somethings sound Indian, or Japanese, or Western? She goes on to show some of the elements of Indian classical music like Khatka, Murki, Zamzama, Andolan, Aalap, Taan.

Session IV – Urbanscapes

Zubin Pastakia speaks about the Cinemas Project – which visually traces the lives of Mumbais disappearing single-screen cinema halls.

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Lakshmi Tripathi – a transgender – talks about the problems she faced in her journey of self discovery to social acceptance to becoming the the first transgender to represent
the Asia Pacific in the UN.

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Rahul Srivastava and Matias Echanove talk about Dharavi and slums in general. They ask the question why are alternative solutions to slums failing and what to do about it.

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Cara Eastcott’s poetry / rap performance.


TEDxMumbai Coverage by Bloggers

Posted: April 7th, 2010 | Author: Ankesh Kothari | Filed under: Uncategorized | 19 Comments »

Thank You folks for making TEDxMumbai a smashing hit.  The event received a lot of buzz.  And the live stream video had 17,759 total viewers! Very elevating!

You can read some of the live blogging coverage by the following bloggers:

We’ll put the videos up soon.


Watch TEDxMumbai Live Online

Posted: April 2nd, 2010 | Author: Ankesh Kothari | Filed under: Uncategorized | 1 Comment »

If you’ve not been able to get entry to TEDxMumbai at Blue Frog tomorrow, you can still follow TEDxMumbai live from your computers. The entire event will be live streamed!

The link you need to go to watch the live stream: TEDxMumbai Live


TEDxMumbai Application Form Now Open

Posted: March 5th, 2010 | Author: Ankesh Kothari | Filed under: Uncategorized | 140 Comments »

Hello folks!

If you want to attend TEDxMumbai on 3rd April, please head over to the application form and fill it out as soon as possible.

The deadline for filling out the form is 17th March.

So fill out the application form right away: Application Form for TEDxMumbai


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Posted: February 5th, 2010 | Author: Ankesh Kothari | Filed under: Uncategorized | 31 Comments »

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