My
Dear Student Friends,
Greetings!
This is Dr. Ravi Saripalle, Founder, Inspire to Innovate (i2i) Storytelling
Movement. Welcome to “Letter
to Student Series- Volume 3 and Issue 12”. Hope you enjoyed reading my
previous letter They are available at http://i2itm.blogspot.in/ and Video Message series is
available at https://www.youtube.com/user/Indianrichtalent. The goal of these letters and video
messages are to inspire, educate, engage, entertain and empower the students and
make them Future Ready.
Inspiring Story Series: Episode 9-Dr
Bharat Vatwani, Ramon Magsaysay Awardee 2018: Dr Bharat Vatwani, founder, Shraddha
Rehabilitation Foundation, working on great cause, reuniting mentally ill
roadside destitutes with their respective families. This foundation is helping towards
treatment, custodial care and rehabilitation to a neglected group of mentally -
ill roadside destitutes and reuniting them with their lost families. It started
in 1988, till date 5000+ destitutes have been reunited. You can listen to this motivating
story of Dr Bharat who is providing a human experience at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hZ8sf1yoRL8
and get
inspired!
Inspiring Story Series: Episode 10- Sonam Wangchuk- Innovator, Education Reformer, A Real Hero
of Ladakh, Ramon Magsaysay Awardee 2018: Hope you have seen Amir Khan's inspiring movie called 3 Idiots in the Year 2009. In the end, you might got thrilled with
Amir Khan's character as teacher named Phunsukh Wangdu who promotes the grassroots innovations. The real
inspiration behind this role is Mr. Sonam Wangchuck, Ladakhi engineer,
innovator and education reformist. He is an inventor of Ice Stupa technique, creating artificial glaciers, a technique to
store the winter water in form of conical shaped ice heap and can be used in
summer for farming. Hear his amazing story at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pTSVLNpNEVo
and get
inspired!
Sonam Lotus, Son of Humble Farmer, Became
Ladakh’s Unofficial ‘Weatherman’!. Sonam Lotus, a humble farmer's son from Ladakh region is
known for his weather prediction. Having more than 10,500 facebook followers,
receiving Best employee as meteorologist in Jammu & Kashmir and Ladakh, is
famous now! Though there is no high school in his village, Sonam pursued his
master in physics from Jammu University but today became master in weather
prediction. Ladakh is known for its unpredictable and adverse weather
conditions. This region is prone for flash floods, landslides, avalanches,
windstorms and hail storms etc. The role of weather prediction is critical for
these people. Maximum reported temperature in Leh up to 1980 was 34.2 degrees
Celsius where as in 2014, it rose to 35.4c, an increase of 1c. This is not good
sign for the region and for the whole sub-continent. Climate change has severe
consequences. Unfortunately, Ladakh received only 1 cm of snow up to February
2018, where as last year same time, it was 30 cm of snow. Usually it is 22
cm average. This is not good sign. Using
facebook page, Sonam educates and updates all his followers, helping local
people as well as tourists. Thank you Sonam for your inspiring and meaning help.
Thank you The Better India for publishing an inspiring story. To read more, Please
visit https://www.thebetterindia.com/157088/ladakh-weatherman-sonam-lotus-climate-change/
Akella Raghavendra, building platform
for UPSC & Other competitive exams coaching in Braille: Raghavendra, completed his graduation
in 1994, aimed for UPSC examination. He went up to interview but cannot make
it. He did not get de-motivated. He started Akella Raghavendra Foundation, a
coaching center to train UPSC aspirants in Hyderabad. He takes a batch of 30-40
students, give them best training possible with personal mentoring and
counseling. Till date, more than 500 students cracked various exams and in multiple
cadres. Raghavendra coaches needy visually-impaired and physically-challenged
persons free of cost. He uses Whatsapp and other electronic means to follow-up
daily activities. After 7 years of long effort, he could able to develop
India's first-of-its-kind UPSC coaching book for visually-impaired. Amazing
effort right. He also developed free audio books for all aspirants. India as 2
crore differently-abled individuals, out of which 10% are graduates. This
material would help those aspirants. It shows his vision and approach
towards these visually impaired people.
Thank you Raghavendraji for your noble efforts. To read more about this, please
visit https://www.thebetterindia.com/156738/upsc-exams-ias-telangana-akella-raghavendra/
Hosachiguru, Agricultural Asset
Management Startup, Creating Social, Environmental and Economic Impact: Started by 3 Technopreners, Ashok J,
Sriram Chitlur and Srinath Setty, relinquished their full time jobs and took up
this Green venture. In Kannada, Hosa means new and Chiguru means sprout. Today
they are running 30 sustainable green projects on 800 acres of land and selling
these forest plots! What a great concept right? Yes, they sell the pieces of
land (call them "Green Units"- an asset which is valuable, yielding
and close to Nature.) and manage green on their behalf. Isn't a wonderful green
concept? They use water harvesting methods, bio-diverse farming,
bio-fertilizers, bio-pesticides, live mulching, intercropping, integrated
pest management and the inclusion of a diverse variety of herbal plants etc.
Thank you better India for publishing such an interesting story. To read more,
please visit https://www.thebetterindia.com/155524/city-mini-forest-startup-hosachiguru/.
To know more about
this startup, please visit their website https://www.hosachiguru.com/our-story/
IQ or EQ or SQ1 or SQ2 which is most
important in Career selection and its growth?: Interesting Question Right? IQ stands
for Intelligence Quotient, EQ stands for Emotional Quotient, SQ1 stands for
Social Quotient and SQ2 stands for Spiritual Quotient. You may agree or not,
but all 4 quotients play important role in different facets of your career
selection and progression. However, their prominence differs depending on the
stage. For e.g. as soon as you got graduated from college, IQ is most important
to crack competitive entrance examinations. During your HR round, your
Emotional Quotient plays major role. Once you join an organization, your SQ1-
Social Quotient plays major role during growth phase. Once you become most
senior in the organization, spiritual quotient plays important role. In today's
context, the most important education is developing all quotients
simultaneously. Today, we are too much focusing on improving IQ levels, missing
other three important quotients. This
will lead to disaster. Request you to focus on all 4 quotients simultaneously
and build 360 degree profile of yours. Are you ready?
World’s First Electrified Road Charges
Vehicles as they Drive (Sweden): Interesting Right? Sweden
opened a road which recharges the batteries of cars and trucks as they drive
along it. Vehicles have movable arm which is attached to the bottom of the vehicles,
which connects to electric rail embedded within the road, transfers the energy to
the battery. They opened 2 KM road for public use. Hope in India, we get
similar setup. To read more, please visit https://www.positive.news/2018/environment/34102/sweden-worlds-first-electrified-road-charges-vehicles-as-they-drive/
Dear Students, Hope you completed Future readiness
assessment. This is to help you to plan your life better and make you relevant
in the context of 4th Industrial revolution. Please take this assessment every
month without fail. It acts like reminder to 5 important activities- Inspire
yourself through positive stories, get mentored from your role model, develop
your natural intelligence, manage academics and do physical activity. Request
you to answer the following five questions and calculate your Future
Readiness.
1.I read / hear stories
of amazing people
(A) weekly once (10 marks)
(B) monthly once (5
marks)
(C) Irregular
reading (2 marks) (D)Not Interested
(0 marks)
2. I write letter
/ mail to my mentor (other than parents) for guidance (professional / personal)
(A) every 6 months (10 marks) (B) yearly
once (5 marks)
(C) Irregular writing (2 marks) (D)Not Interested
(0 marks)
3. I practice my passion
or natural intelligence (to know your
intelligence https://goo.gl/vgyD54)
(A) weekly 4 hours (10 marks) (B) weekly
2 hours (5 marks)
(C) Irregular practice (2 marks) (D)Not Interested
(0 marks)
4.I manage my academics
with consistent percentage or grade
(A) A Grade and above (10
marks) (B) B Grade and
above (5 marks)
(C) C
Grade or below (2 marks) (D)Consistent
Failure (0 marks)
5.I do physical
activity and maintain good health
(A) weekly 4 hours (10 marks) (B)
weekly 2 hours (5 marks)
(C) Irregular practice (2 marks) (D)Not
Interested (0 marks)
Check Your Score and Title
I wish you should be either
Performer (your score should be between 40-50) or Challenger
(your score should be between 25-40). You should not give any scope to be Lounger (relaxed) with 10-25 score or Laggard
(slower than desired) with score less than 10.
My Dear Friends, Appreciate your valuable time. See you
in my next letter. Thank you for giving me this wonderful opportunity. You can also
reach to me at sdindia2020@gmail.com. I am happy to respond to your
letter.
With Best Wishes,
Dr.
Ravi Saripalle
About Author: Dr. Ravi Saripalle is Founder of Inspire
to Innovate (i2i) Storytelling Movement and Director, Center for
Innovation, GVP College of Engineering (A), Vizag, AP, India. As part of Inspire
to Innovate (i2i) Storytelling Movement, Dr.Ravi is trying to instill
inspiration through spreading positive stories of amazing people in the form of
short stories, embedding them in the form of letters (epistolary form) and
sending them to thousands of schools, colleges, universities districts
administration across India. Also conducting Storytelling Workshops in select institutions.
Providing customized mentoring to inspired students. Dr. Ravi is having 18
years of experience in Industry, Consultancy, Training, Mentoring and Research.
Prior to this current mission, Ravi worked with Wipro Technologies for more
than a decade. Ravi can be reached at sdindia2020@gmail,com or http://i2itm.blogspot.in/ or https://www.facebook.com/RaviSaripalle
Previous letters are available at http://i2itm.blogspot.in/ Videos https://www.youtube.com/user/Indianrichtalent
Disclaimer: The goal of this i2iSM letter series
campaign is to inspire students / youth through storytelling and develop
innovative leaders to build strong nation. In this process, I have taken
several data points from various websites, NEWS articles, books, videos etc. I
sincerely thank all the editors for providing such an insightful stories and
information. To the best of my knowledge, I tried to acknowledge all the
sources. I sincerely apologize for any omissions, grammatical mistakes and
hurting any reader’s sentiments. I request all the readers to understand the spirit
behind this effort. This effort doesn’t involve any commercials. Letter series
is for free distribution.
