The TEDx Chennai was organized at IC&SR Auditorium, IIT Madras, Chennai. Guitarist Prasanna was the second speaker of the event. Mr. Kiruba Shankar the curator of TEDx Chennai gave a short introduction about the guitarist Mr. Prasanna and then invited to deliver a speech. Guitarist Prasanna thanked Kiruba Shankar for the invitation and said he was really excited on seeing the speakers of TEDx Chennai.
The world renowned celebrity as he walked to the stage looked very calm and Professionalist. But the reason for the calmness was not only because of his traits, but also because of his dedicated assignments on ‘Swarnabhoomi Academy of Music’. During his speech he expressed about the sleepless assignments with SAM faculties and students. He had slept only after 5.00 a.m. for the past three weeks. Speaking on TEDx Chennai he told that he was invited to TED events. As he stood on the stage and delivered the speech he recalled the days when he studied at IIT, Chennai in the year 1992.
Prasanna appreciated the theme for the event ‘Do’ and stressed on the importance of using active verbs in conversations. He cited the non English speaking countries approach of speaking. Best explanation for complex things can be given only in simple words. It took months for him to select the title to his album ‘Be The Change’. So that everyone would admire and appreciate the albums simplicity and its title. Prasanna believes in Mahathma’s words but also took the essence for naming his album “You must be the change you wish to see in this world”.
Music College Turned Realistic – SAM
When he came across the idea of starting a Music college in India, there were so many oppositions from within his own mind. He had other questions like what kind of music to be taught, whom to be targeted, etc. He decided to share the idea with Mr. GRK Reddy, promoter of MARG group, five hour discussion. Mr Reddy and was very receptive to his Music Academy Idea and turned into a reality.
Excerpts from Prasanna speech
If you are a musician, don’t just be a musician.
Your first primal function is to enrich the humanity.
All of us have our own way of leaving a legacy behind.
Build a community around ourselves.
Think, share and realize.
The entire event was streamed live on www.tedxchennai.com and was also live updated on Facebook, twitter and blog posts.
Guitarist Prasanna’s solo number with his guitar enthralled the TEDx Chennai Audience.
A story book written by budding writer Krithya titled ‘The Princes & The Straw Dress’ was planned to release on 02.10.2010. The book launch event coincided the birth anniversary of our country’s Father Of The Nation. The program started around 5.00 p.m. at Raj Paris Apartment, Virugambakkam. Kid compere for the event introduced the CEO, MARG ProperTies, Mr. Ramakrishnan S. She also took some time to introduce the MARG Group to the audience gathered for the book release.
Mr. Ramakrishnan was escorted to the podium to release the book. He delivered a speech after the book release. He shared an occurrence in USA, about discrimination of people by their colours and how the boy rise up to become a stalwart. He cited the story to appreciate Krithya initiative. A play was performed by the children’s of Raj Paris Apartment depicting the story. The kids also gave a fabulous cultural program to entertain the audience. Playback singer ‘Chinmayi Sripada’ being a well wisher of Budding Writer Krithya made her presence to bless the kid.
A series of photographs uploaded in MARG photo sharing sites Flickr. Click here for collection of event pictures
How many of us really take some pain to initiate a get together with best of people whom we know from different walks of life to spend some quality time together in a place which is totally out of the city. Here comes an unconference organized by Kiruba Shankar and its calledCerebrate, it’s an event for achievers and best thinkers to get together for brainstorming and bonding. Cerebrate is a hybrid between an invite-only event, an unconference self-organized, unstructured, yet intellectual. Cerebrate is a successful event which is happening for the third consecutive time this year and it’s a 4 day event happening from February 25th to 28th 2010. MargManagement has graciously offered Marg Tapovanas the event venue which is off ECR Chennai . Take a look at the hand-picked achievers who will be a part of this year edition of Cerebrate. (Full list here)
1. Dr. Devdutt Pattanaik – Chief Belief Officer for Future Group.
2. Dr.Ananda Shankar Jayant – Classical dancer and Choreographer.
3. G R K Reddy – CMD, MARG Group.
4. Vasu Dixit – Visual Communication Designer, Composer.
5. Vivek Paul – Ex- Vice Chairman Wipro, Founder of Kinetic Glue, Board Member of Electronic Arts.
Cerebrate is all about enriching oneself with inspiring life lessons from one another and the beauty lies in its diversity and excellence of each achievers is from a unique field. All this is possible to happen only when the achievers are out of the ‘City Life’ and Cerebrate wanted to give the achievers a change, a change that will be remembered for the years to come and that is when the Cerebrate team decided to go for Marg Tapovan as the event venue.
Marg Tapovan, a signature project from MARG, it’s a silent garden with a villa style extravaganza complete with its own private swimming pool, Jacuzzi and a meditation center. The site is located at Pavunjur, about 80 kms from Tidel Park, Chennai, and 38 kms from Mahabalipuram. Tapovan is focused to deliver a concept of “resort of your own”. The participants will also witness the bright patches of sunlight flicker in the deep shade of the leafy boughs of mango, guava, chiku and mature coconut trees. I am sure this year Cerebrate will take a new shape and the participants will enjoy the unconference to the best of it. Marg management is very proud to be associated with this event and welcomes all the invitees to Tapovan.
