okay so before we start let us all
invest three seconds and answer this
question to ourselves if today was the
last day of our life would we have done
now we all have the answer let us keep
it to ourselves because there is only
one being to whom we can’t lie never by
the ways that was a popular Steve Jobs
code right we’ll come back to this later
for present that guy is written Kumar
Verma and he is Prateek Sachin and
please allow us to give a brief
introduction of whatever we have done in
our lives so far it started during the
summer 2013 when we did a month-long
internship with Avanti fellows an
organization aimed at providing medical
and engineering entrance preparation
through peer-to-peer learning
methodology our job was to visit state
government schools of Delhi take
sessions of ten standard students and
make them aware of future career
opportunities and conduct tests for them
through which they can enroll into
avanti’s learning programme following
that up we came up with our first
venture nurturing nation in which we
used to provide J s violence with the
mentors to deal with the non-academic
problems they face during their
preparation phase so we got nearly 25
mentors from different institutions like
IIT Delhi IIT Bombay IIT Kanpur BITS
Pilani and vege Goa who are mainly first
and second year students we believe that
the 55 odd students who had enrolled
with us during those two months were
emotionally emotionally relate far more
to these mentors who had already been
through that phase than with their
parents or teachers then vetas zeal to
do something more raw which would give
us more on ground exposure
we came up with a social startup
Excelsior India we started out by
recycling waste paper which we collected
from urban societies in Delhi we tied up
with a leading recycling brand of the
country who took waste paper from us and
gave us recycled notebooks in return
which we distributed among the
underprivileged kids in and around Delhi
it was during this course that we came
across a very basic design on the which
on which we worked upon and developed a
first product which was a bag made
entirely from cardboard sheets which is
folded in a certain way can be converted
into a desk mainly for the kids who do
not have access to basic furniture allow
us to show you a very brief video of
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thank you Excelsior had a great run for
a year and a half
presently I’m the chief operating
officer of a start-up named Chuck
renovation Private Limited which I
founded with two of my colleagues did
you know that Delhi was adjudged the
most polluted city last year across the
world we have developed a device which
can be installed with the exhaust pipe
of diesel engines now you must have seen
the black smoke that comes out of the
diesel engine generators right I device
when installed with these diesel
generators can absorb that black smoke
that suit with an efficiency of 73
percent however our USP lies in the fact
that we have found ways to repurpose
that tracksuit into raw materials for
the ink that’s right ink paint and
textile industry so we have all
paintings that have been done from paint
produced from a suit we have shirts that
have been literally printed with
pollution having discovered a soft
corner for journalism I have had a
couple of experiences in the recent past
the first one with one of the oldest
Hindi newspaper of India arch Hindi
daily in Varanasi and the second one
with Ahemdabad mirror which is a tabloid
newspaper of The Times of India in a.m.
the bottom few well that was in a brief
introduction at all we are sorry but let
us come to the message that we want to
share with you which we extracted from
our past experiences sly fall live I
repeat sly fall live we believe fly and
fall are very natural states of us human
beings we feel happy we feel sad we
laugh we cry we win we lose we fly we
fall if we look into ourselves at any
particular time and analyze we would
realize that there are a lot and lot of
emotions within us and in the absolute
terms if we sum up all of the
emotions we would be left with a single
emotion which we feel at a particular
time and if above a certain neutral line
it portrays flying and below a certain
neutral line it portrays falling but the
ultimate message that fly for live
conveys is live fly and fall are two
absolutely inescapable conditions of
human beings but what we must not miss
out on is living living in the truest
sense now you must be wondering that
what do we mean by living exactly I mean
we breathe a heart pump perfectly we can
talk run shout doesn’t that signify
having well we think that all of this
only signifies our mere existence living
in a true sense is entirely a different
taste a very different aura is
associated with the same we believe that
living is being aware of the present
moment and of yourself in fact let me
share with you five major learnings that
we drew from our past experience which
confirmed the belief into this theory of
life all length the first major learning
we extracted was befriend the obstacle
obstacles are very natural no matter
what we do in our lives we are going to
face obstacles in fact we face obstacles
in our daily routine but what matters is
how we deal with them how we perceive
the obstacles this reminds me of the
time when we had an internship with a 1d
fellows where we collectively visited
around 110 government schools of Delhi
it wasn’t easy there were numerous
occasions when we were sued off from the
schools but it all seemed worthwhile
when we saw students turning up in huge
numbers for among the enrollment
examinations a second major learning
reminds me of a story and it goes back
to when we were pursuing nurturing
nation it was all going fine mentors
were happy
students were happier until until the
visions of the founding team started
diverging well it was disheartening we
were left with two choices first to
ignore it and to blame others second to
embrace the failure
we chose the latter and let me tell you
it helped us avoid a plethora of errors
that we would have committed in our
future ventures moving on simplest of
the words have the deepest meaning
friendship is one such word I don’t
believe in luck but I feel lucky to have
made the kind of friends we have right
now
absolutely Ritesh our standard excelsior
was one of the most fulfilling time we
ever had in our journey we both heart
and we played hard we were the winners
of a Buddha action band competition
runners up at Eureka Asia’s largest
business plan competition and recipient
of many such awards our product was
launched at IIT Delhi on 23rd April 2015
by the Deputy Chief Minister of Delhi
Sriman ich Sisodia and this was all
possible only because of the bonding
that we shared with the members of team
excelsior and this brings us to a third
learning real friends can take you
anywhere anywhere we repeat even to ten
Raja jaja mark New Delhi hoops addresses
that well we will tell you a great man
used to live there a man who goes by the
nickname of missile man of India former
President of India late dr. APJ Abdul
Kalam a kind and humble soul that he was
a kind and humble soul that he was it
was a truly inspiring event to meet him
now we will tell you what we are
currently pursuing and the kind of
learnings the learnings we have
extracted from it till now the fourth
learning that we want to share with you
is
kill the comfort all three of the
co-founders at chakra know that we have
placed a huge risk with our future
however it is said that great risk
fetches you great reward I mean at least
we want to believe that but one thing is
for certain there will be no regrets
because we know that we are responsible
for what we will be many features of
journalism goes in synchronization with
that of entrepreneurship having had a
certain experience with entrepreneurship
I felt the urge to explore journalism
and as it is said the world is like a
book those who do not travel read only
one page journalism is not only allowing
me to gain new perspectives share new
stories to express myself through
writing but it has also allowed me to
get out of my comfort zone and take a
step forward towards being a broad
person this leads us to our fifth and
the final learning explore and be a
broad person and these were the five
major learnings that we had to offer for
you we wish all of you all the best so
that you can do what you planned at the
start of our talk
fly fall live thank you ladies and gentlemen thank you