[Music]
I run a business of telling stories I
make money out of telling stories and
today I don’t have a story to tell you
but I have many many stories to tell you
when I was a kid in school I was one of
those children who every child in the
class hates I was one of those children
who would scored 99 out of 100 months
but would still go up to the teacher ask
for a supplementary Rhian speck ssin to
get that one mic extra so there was once
there was a dictation test in our class
dictation who authorizes my teacher she
tells the words and there’s a sheet of
paper they were supposed to write it in
the correct spelling so it was a
10-month dictation test and the ten
words one mark each when the results
came I had nine out of ten marks I
looked at my sheet and there was a red
cross next to a word which was very very
difficult the word was cat I could not
spell cat correctly my spelling of cat
was k80
a teacher had taught the spelling of cat
as c80
so I go up to the teacher throw my
tantrums and a classic punishment my
teacher sends me to the last row of the
boys row last bench of the boys room you
know they think go have fun so I go
there I meet this boy who scored three
out of ten marks I take his sheet and I
see where he went wrong and my eye goes
right to the word cat his spelling of
cat is Q ithi which is wrong so if I
look back my spelling of cat which was
ka t was wrong and so was his spelling
of cat which was QE t was wrong and my
cat was as wrong as his gut
however I could have argued that my cat
is better than his cat because the
dictionary recognizes it because it’s a
phonetically correct way of spelling a
cat Neil Tyson in one of his speeches
said how we have made a system
but there is one wrong where there is
one answer and everything else is not an
answer even if there are better answers
than the existing answers human brain
and in the absence of social wiring is
capable of coming up with ideas of
original thoughts of creative ways of
solving stuff ideas that are simple
ideas that can bring a difference like
Kalani’s idea Kalani is a friend she’s
an entrepreneur four years from now
Kalani was a 20 year old kid college kid
who was confused
Kalyani was extremely disheartened to
see how people with physical
disabilities were not able to find love
PR throws up Cohutta has sub Camila Naja
here
Kalyani went on to build the world’s
first matchmaking app for people with
physical disabilities it was a simple
idea simple solution put together what a
difference so far Kalyani and her team
they have matched over 5000 people with
physical disabilities help them find
love has it changed the world maybe
maybe not but it has changed the world
for 5000 people two years back when I
started type Ani I was a college going
student finally ur are still trying to
figure out ways to make up for a one
year lost because I dropped out of
engineering when I was on the way over
here a volunteer should me this river on
the way and said it flows in the
opposite direction and I will say
whatever bill I was one of those rivers
you know you put me to engineering I
want to study psychology you put me to
psychology I want to do journalism so I
would do different part-time jobs and in
one of my jobs where I was working as a
journalist I realized the amazing the
amazing power of media the power that
media has to manipulate people the power
that media has to change people to move
the society media does not only mirror
the society it has the power to move it
now before I proceed I want to ask the
audience and you will reply me with
applause how many of you feel upset and
the
after seeing newspapers and news
channels and this was not the way how I
wanted to move the world is it important
to report corruption and crimes and
sameen inequality and holding the power
responsible for everything that goes
wrong definitely yes
however as much as we have to look where
we are want to move away from it is also
important to look where we want to move
towards so I went up to every major news
media in my city telling them give me
one column give me one hour slot 30
minute slot on the TV where I can tell
stories of people who are inspiring I
can tell stories that could inspire the
audience to be the better version of
themselves but since every minute on the
TV and every centimeter square of a
newspaper comes with a cost as a revenue
scale attached to it nobody agreed so I
went on went up to the internet free
medium build the platform type on EECOM
to tell stories of people who are like
you like brick you know people who are
doing incredibly amazing stuff for
people
hood battling the daily Wars people who
have lessons to share when I started
type Ani did I know how to build a build
a media company nope
did I know how to build a startup zero
idea however I knew one thing and that
one thing was that somebody had to do it
and at that point the somebody I
recognized was me so I went out started
telling stories of people and people
picked it up and this was a time when I
learned a very good lesson from a little
boy Dinesh I met in Vizag now I’m a
little JA graphically challenged ie
I tend to get lost in the easiest of the
places so I was in Vizag trying to
explore the place and I got lost I to it
I broke my chuckles so I was looking for
somebody to help me and out of everybody
who could not understand what I was
trying to say or I could not understand
what they were trying to stay then H was
somebody who came up to me knew English
Hindi
it may not be the homework thirdly I
here I will take you to a cobbler so he
started going and on the way I asked him
finish what do you want to become when
you grow up and then I said uh computer
science engineer Bandra
and I asked him why the niche tells me
bearish muhammara herpe pipes miss a
panty get ahead or coming up you a bunny
girl cake honey may get shot ahead or
was in Canada he milta so I want to grow
up and I want to fix all the pipes and I
want to fix pipes for everybody else
so I told in his those skinny computer
science engineer new skill have put
civil engineer but Napa take a shot so
he takes a pause looks around looks at
me since ticket though my civil engineer
bends anger and this was a very
important lesson that Dinesh taught me
that if your Y is clear if your Y is
strong enough your how we’ll figure its
way out when I started typing he
probably I did not know how to go about
it I did not know how to build a startup
world or any of those fancy jargons like
a Beatles or your hockey stick somebody
asked me what’s your hockey stick and I
realized no I am NOT a sports player I I
don’t know what a hockey stick is then
it made me realize if your Y is strong
enough your how will figure out if your
Y is strong enough it will make you run
it will make you not sleep it will make
you do things that can take whatever
you’ve never imagined and at that point
when I was so strong you will give
everything you have when we started type
on e I did not have money to build the
platform I did not have money to pay
people so we turned to the crowd you
know crowd like Hugh when we told
everybody okay contribute from 51 rupees
to 5,000 rupees to 50,000 rupees
whatever I want to do this and I need
money for it you know for somebody who
comes from a from an upper-middle-class
family who’s done respectable jobs was
it was it easy to ask for money and I
was giving nothing in return I was only
asking for a favor it was terrible it
was embarrassing however it was a very
very humbling experience in less than 11
days 200 people got together from
different sections of the society
contributed gave us money to build
something that could inspire them that
could inspire everybody out there and
this was also a moment when I realized I
could do anything to build this platform
I could give whatever it takes
like Geeta
she was married at 15 she thought okay
this is a good getaway I’ll get married
because my father is very abusive she
had lost her mother and she thought
matters is a good gate get away from her
abusive father
however Geeta was proved wrong from day
one when her husband started abusing her
when her husband started raping her so
he thought okay let me give him a kid
probably maybe then he’ll change Geeta
was proved wrong again in the third
month of her pregnancy
Geeta tells in one of one of her
speeches that she gave at out at one of
her events she says how her husband
would keep his knees on her for 15 to 20
minutes hit her with the cylinder and
abused her and even during her pregnancy
continued to rape her
when Geeta forcefully gave birth to her
second child one day one day she woke up
and she realized I cannot give this
future to my children I cannot give this
future to myself and she went out of the
house homeless no education no
employment she left the house Geeta
stayed in gurudwaras she made 1000 rotis
every day she would wash utensils and
dough and clean houses of people and
cook at their places she did everything
it took to give herself a life of
dignity today Geeta is one of the most
popular stunt women of India she is the
one who performs stands for biggest of
the actresses Deepika Padukone Aishwarya
Rai alia birds Sonakshi Sinha in fact
she is one of the only women of India
who has done car and bike chases tonnes
geeta today has her own house in
maillard in Bombay Geeta is happy when
Geeta was giving her speech at one of
our events there was one line she
constantly kept saying despite
everything she’s been through
Geeta maintained life before that she
had life nabo Hatsune her hair AB
coopersmith karna house at Shabana Kalia
you know there was there were no growth
hands there were no shortcuts in her
speech and this was what inspired me
about Geeta resilience
determination determination to give
whatever it takes to keep doing things
shamelessly ceaselessly keep doing it on
chai pani we are telling stories that
bring us alive that bring people like
you and I alive here you would say how
you know motivational speeches and
motivational quotes are all on your
watch sab they are available everywhere
however it is incredibly powerful when
you hear the story of the person who is
sitting next to you just look around the
person was sitting right behind you it’s
incredibly powerful when I a
two-year-old Berger Theo’s are tells
winners in our interview that the
formula to have a long interesting happy
life is to always be curious and then
she moves aside and quietly tells me and
to stay single it is incredibly powerful
when a little child tells me the formula
to be successful is to do your homework
on time it’s incredibly powerful when
you look around when you look around
stories of people who are doing great
work
we as the media have the power to bring
people together to bring communities
together in a time where there are lakhs
of people who are ready to sacrifice
their lives for a god for a self-made
Godman we need to build communities
together we need to bring communities
and micro communities together and get
them to do good work and this is what
we’re building at chai pani we’re
building a community of change makers of
of entrepreneurs and innovators and
artists and anybody and everybody who
has an inspiring story to share and
somebody who could inspire somebody else
thank you
you
I run a business of telling stories I
make money out of telling stories and
today I don’t have a story to tell you
but I have many many stories to tell you
when I was a kid in school I was one of
those children who every child in the
class hates I was one of those children
who would scored 99 out of 100 months
but would still go up to the teacher ask
for a supplementary Rhian speck ssin to
get that one mic extra so there was once
there was a dictation test in our class
dictation who authorizes my teacher she
tells the words and there’s a sheet of
paper they were supposed to write it in
the correct spelling so it was a
10-month dictation test and the ten
words one mark each when the results
came I had nine out of ten marks I
looked at my sheet and there was a red
cross next to a word which was very very
difficult the word was cat I could not
spell cat correctly my spelling of cat
was k80
a teacher had taught the spelling of cat
as c80
so I go up to the teacher throw my
tantrums and a classic punishment my
teacher sends me to the last row of the
boys row last bench of the boys room you
know they think go have fun so I go
there I meet this boy who scored three
out of ten marks I take his sheet and I
see where he went wrong and my eye goes
right to the word cat his spelling of
cat is Q ithi which is wrong so if I
look back my spelling of cat which was
ka t was wrong and so was his spelling
of cat which was QE t was wrong and my
cat was as wrong as his gut
however I could have argued that my cat
is better than his cat because the
dictionary recognizes it because it’s a
phonetically correct way of spelling a
cat Neil Tyson in one of his speeches
said how we have made a system
but there is one wrong where there is
one answer and everything else is not an
answer even if there are better answers
than the existing answers human brain
and in the absence of social wiring is
capable of coming up with ideas of
original thoughts of creative ways of
solving stuff ideas that are simple
ideas that can bring a difference like
Kalani’s idea Kalani is a friend she’s
an entrepreneur four years from now
Kalani was a 20 year old kid college kid
who was confused
Kalyani was extremely disheartened to
see how people with physical
disabilities were not able to find love
PR throws up Cohutta has sub Camila Naja
here
Kalyani went on to build the world’s
first matchmaking app for people with
physical disabilities it was a simple
idea simple solution put together what a
difference so far Kalyani and her team
they have matched over 5000 people with
physical disabilities help them find
love has it changed the world maybe
maybe not but it has changed the world
for 5000 people two years back when I
started type Ani I was a college going
student finally ur are still trying to
figure out ways to make up for a one
year lost because I dropped out of
engineering when I was on the way over
here a volunteer should me this river on
the way and said it flows in the
opposite direction and I will say
whatever bill I was one of those rivers
you know you put me to engineering I
want to study psychology you put me to
psychology I want to do journalism so I
would do different part-time jobs and in
one of my jobs where I was working as a
journalist I realized the amazing the
amazing power of media the power that
media has to manipulate people the power
that media has to change people to move
the society media does not only mirror
the society it has the power to move it
now before I proceed I want to ask the
audience and you will reply me with
applause how many of you feel upset and
the
after seeing newspapers and news
channels and this was not the way how I
wanted to move the world is it important
to report corruption and crimes and
sameen inequality and holding the power
responsible for everything that goes
wrong definitely yes
however as much as we have to look where
we are want to move away from it is also
important to look where we want to move
towards so I went up to every major news
media in my city telling them give me
one column give me one hour slot 30
minute slot on the TV where I can tell
stories of people who are inspiring I
can tell stories that could inspire the
audience to be the better version of
themselves but since every minute on the
TV and every centimeter square of a
newspaper comes with a cost as a revenue
scale attached to it nobody agreed so I
went on went up to the internet free
medium build the platform type on EECOM
to tell stories of people who are like
you like brick you know people who are
doing incredibly amazing stuff for
people
hood battling the daily Wars people who
have lessons to share when I started
type Ani did I know how to build a build
a media company nope
did I know how to build a startup zero
idea however I knew one thing and that
one thing was that somebody had to do it
and at that point the somebody I
recognized was me so I went out started
telling stories of people and people
picked it up and this was a time when I
learned a very good lesson from a little
boy Dinesh I met in Vizag now I’m a
little JA graphically challenged ie
I tend to get lost in the easiest of the
places so I was in Vizag trying to
explore the place and I got lost I to it
I broke my chuckles so I was looking for
somebody to help me and out of everybody
who could not understand what I was
trying to say or I could not understand
what they were trying to stay then H was
somebody who came up to me knew English
Hindi
it may not be the homework thirdly I
here I will take you to a cobbler so he
started going and on the way I asked him
finish what do you want to become when
you grow up and then I said uh computer
science engineer Bandra
and I asked him why the niche tells me
bearish muhammara herpe pipes miss a
panty get ahead or coming up you a bunny
girl cake honey may get shot ahead or
was in Canada he milta so I want to grow
up and I want to fix all the pipes and I
want to fix pipes for everybody else
so I told in his those skinny computer
science engineer new skill have put
civil engineer but Napa take a shot so
he takes a pause looks around looks at
me since ticket though my civil engineer
bends anger and this was a very
important lesson that Dinesh taught me
that if your Y is clear if your Y is
strong enough your how we’ll figure its
way out when I started typing he
probably I did not know how to go about
it I did not know how to build a startup
world or any of those fancy jargons like
a Beatles or your hockey stick somebody
asked me what’s your hockey stick and I
realized no I am NOT a sports player I I
don’t know what a hockey stick is then
it made me realize if your Y is strong
enough your how will figure out if your
Y is strong enough it will make you run
it will make you not sleep it will make
you do things that can take whatever
you’ve never imagined and at that point
when I was so strong you will give
everything you have when we started type
on e I did not have money to build the
platform I did not have money to pay
people so we turned to the crowd you
know crowd like Hugh when we told
everybody okay contribute from 51 rupees
to 5,000 rupees to 50,000 rupees
whatever I want to do this and I need
money for it you know for somebody who
comes from a from an upper-middle-class
family who’s done respectable jobs was
it was it easy to ask for money and I
was giving nothing in return I was only
asking for a favor it was terrible it
was embarrassing however it was a very
very humbling experience in less than 11
days 200 people got together from
different sections of the society
contributed gave us money to build
something that could inspire them that
could inspire everybody out there and
this was also a moment when I realized I
could do anything to build this platform
I could give whatever it takes
like Geeta
she was married at 15 she thought okay
this is a good getaway I’ll get married
because my father is very abusive she
had lost her mother and she thought
matters is a good gate get away from her
abusive father
however Geeta was proved wrong from day
one when her husband started abusing her
when her husband started raping her so
he thought okay let me give him a kid
probably maybe then he’ll change Geeta
was proved wrong again in the third
month of her pregnancy
Geeta tells in one of one of her
speeches that she gave at out at one of
her events she says how her husband
would keep his knees on her for 15 to 20
minutes hit her with the cylinder and
abused her and even during her pregnancy
continued to rape her
when Geeta forcefully gave birth to her
second child one day one day she woke up
and she realized I cannot give this
future to my children I cannot give this
future to myself and she went out of the
house homeless no education no
employment she left the house Geeta
stayed in gurudwaras she made 1000 rotis
every day she would wash utensils and
dough and clean houses of people and
cook at their places she did everything
it took to give herself a life of
dignity today Geeta is one of the most
popular stunt women of India she is the
one who performs stands for biggest of
the actresses Deepika Padukone Aishwarya
Rai alia birds Sonakshi Sinha in fact
she is one of the only women of India
who has done car and bike chases tonnes
geeta today has her own house in
maillard in Bombay Geeta is happy when
Geeta was giving her speech at one of
our events there was one line she
constantly kept saying despite
everything she’s been through
Geeta maintained life before that she
had life nabo Hatsune her hair AB
coopersmith karna house at Shabana Kalia
you know there was there were no growth
hands there were no shortcuts in her
speech and this was what inspired me
about Geeta resilience
determination determination to give
whatever it takes to keep doing things
shamelessly ceaselessly keep doing it on
chai pani we are telling stories that
bring us alive that bring people like
you and I alive here you would say how
you know motivational speeches and
motivational quotes are all on your
watch sab they are available everywhere
however it is incredibly powerful when
you hear the story of the person who is
sitting next to you just look around the
person was sitting right behind you it’s
incredibly powerful when I a
two-year-old Berger Theo’s are tells
winners in our interview that the
formula to have a long interesting happy
life is to always be curious and then
she moves aside and quietly tells me and
to stay single it is incredibly powerful
when a little child tells me the formula
to be successful is to do your homework
on time it’s incredibly powerful when
you look around when you look around
stories of people who are doing great
work
we as the media have the power to bring
people together to bring communities
together in a time where there are lakhs
of people who are ready to sacrifice
their lives for a god for a self-made
Godman we need to build communities
together we need to bring communities
and micro communities together and get
them to do good work and this is what
we’re building at chai pani we’re
building a community of change makers of
of entrepreneurs and innovators and
artists and anybody and everybody who
has an inspiring story to share and
somebody who could inspire somebody else
thank you
you
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