Monthly Archives: August 2013

The boy who lived to turn five
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UEm9ygP4uyU

This video gives the first of the list of reasons I made my way to this place that places creativity, life skills and giving back to society on the same pedestal as finance, accounting and management lessons.

While travelling across India and meeting other country citizens made me realise that MNC’s were not the first ones to customise their products and services to ‘local needs.’
Problems and challenges were the torchbearers who learnt to cater to the ‘global needs’ then customised themselves to the ‘local conditions’ and touched almost every part of the world! Poverty, gender disparity, human rights’ violations, are not just sitting in the books idly but making their presence felt with more and more intensity with each passing day.

 Working with children and teenagers over the last 5 years who look up to me and want to become like me has inspired me to do things they would want to emulate some day. Coming here is part of a plan to equip myself with skills, exposure and experience that will help me give back to society not just with a few emphatically typed words on Facebook but help me to reach a position with enough say and money where creating and implementing developmental programs will become as easy as writing A-B-C.

Namaskaaram means to say ‘hello’
Namaskaaram to my first trip abroad
Namaskaaram to Canada
Namaskaaram to my first attempt at academically equipping myself with skills to pursue my passions
Namaskaaram to the goosebumps that keep reminding me my good fortune
Namaskaaram to peers and teachers who are going to be my strongest support system for many years to come
Namaskaaram to the ambitions that are waiting to become achievements
Namaskaaram to the glorious beckoning future!