by asking all of you a question and the
question is that how many of you
genuinely are concerned about the
pollution in the city please raise your
hands my second question is that how
many of you really are concerned about
the fact that a lot of people are under
the poverty line in India the rest of
you are not concerned how I want to
start my talk is by saying that if I
keep on I’m sorry asking you these
questions for the rest of the evening
you will keep on raising hands because
you will all agree with me on certain
shared concerns certain problems
possibly some solutions and if I repeat
the social experiment city after city
country after country I will get a
similar response so what keeps what puts
me to wonder is that if we all you and
me are in consensus about the things
that are wrong our problems then why is
it that we continue to live in problems
that we all agree should not exist then
why is it that our Prime Minister has to
come out and say keep your public spaces
clean and why is it that there are so
many people who go to sleep every night
without a meal I think from my personal
experience from my humble personal
experience I think that whenever we see
a situation which does not impact us
directly our general attitude towards is
this someone should do something about
this it was not that I I mean I’m
inventing this or this thing this is
just a attitude problem that I also had
about a couple of years back and
something changed which was the evening
conversation with a gentleman who had
visited Jessel made to my hotel I was
standing in the courtyard I asked him
that sir
how is been you stay here and he went
straight faced he said I’m never going
to visit just the mayor again and your
city sucks now I was partially
embarrassed because you know it’s it’s
it’s not a nice feeling when someone
comes and ridicule
your city or country but also I was
partially concerned because if people
wrote Jessel Madoff there would be no
business to my hotel and I realized that
we are all part of a connected ecosystem
and suddenly someone should do something
about this became for me I should do
whatever I can to take care of this and
this is what we did so let me read a
value our Sofia or Luke Walker allah
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this was a little thing as soon as I
changed my attitude towards the problem
and I said I should do whatever I can
about this and since then I have done
multiple projects to do with women
empowerment to do with the drainage
problem at the Fort the conditions of
various stone artisans so I encouraged
them to collaborate with international
designers we have done a fantastic music
album which is going to be out very soon
with the local singers we did stuff with
the hospital we did with some flee the
rise time police against the touts we
did stuff with rice and tourism for the
desert festival and my point in saying
all of this was that with a very simple
change in your mindset everything
suddenly becomes possible moving swiftly
forwards these were things about a
community about some people what do you
do when you face larger issues like
pollution like like intolerance or water
conservation I would like to inform you
that it still holds true and this is a
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the lake collects over 300 million
liters of water rainwater it has become
home to new flora and fauna which never
came before it has recharged old
abandoned Wells which has revived
farming in the region this land ladies
gentlemen had less than 1/3 per acre in
I’m happy to inform you that we have
already planted over 65,000 trees and we
just one small step can change many
things and this is example these are all
google images you can see it for
those were two from 2013 to 2015
so here is how would like to say I did
this not because I want to win some
prize or this thing I have a
one-year-old daughter and I do not want
her to be growing up in an environment
where she smokes she see in here it’s 40
cigarettes without smoking one and and
the fact that I’m always worried about
her health because the water round is
contaminated I want to run I want just
like you that she runs after butterflies
and and see stars and climbs trees and
and the fact that she’s not logged in a
stupid room with the air purifier with
wiggling on her iPad I do not want that
and that was for me reason enough to
embark on something like that
and this is exactly the point I want to
make tonight with my talk which is that
change that we want all of us want is
never going to happen if we keep
thinking about it and the fact that we
imagine that someone else is going to
bring it it will not happen change will
happen when you and I work towards and
make it happen
it is just like eating food when you are
hungry somebody else eating food does
not help you when you’re doing this you
will also find a lot of cynical people
the cynical side of your head and the
people around you and they will say I
keep native on my case go yah-hey
they’ll say that akela gator Nasik yoga
or something you know you can just put
all those people who shut because if you
listen to them you will never be able to
do anything at all I would like to
conclude by saying that the next time
you can take a metro take a metro you
can pull a card kula cards you can teach
your house helps daughter for an
examination do that
you want to take a bucket bath do that
if you want to sort out garbage
Bin’s do that what I want to say is that
it does not matter really the impact
that you create with your actions what
matters is that what whatever you have
you have given it at your 100% to create
that impact that is what matters
because when you do something I do
something he does something all of this
combines to make a big difference and
that ladies and gentlemen in my humble
opinion is an idea worth sharing thank
you [Applause]