My Dear Student Friends,
Greetings!
This
is Dr. Ravi Saripalle, Believer and Mentor,
Inspire to Innovate (i2i) Storytelling Movement. Welcome to “Letter to Student Series-
Volume 1 and Issue 8”. Hope you enjoyed reading my previous letter. These
letters are making all institutions connected across North to South & East
to West, for one good cause, Inspire to Innovate. Today you are
survived if you can create your own story and impact in the society. However,
creating a story for yourself is not that simple as we speak. The reason is effortless.
I did little research in this space. Students need to transition from WORD
to WORLD. Then you can create your own story. Some students are stuck up at
WORD stage, and missing WORLD needs. Some students are fortunate enough to study
WORLD, but missing WORD is not helping them in creating their story. Large
portion of students are stuck up in between and confused which direction to go
first (towards WORD or towards WORLD). These NEWS Letters are addressing those
students who are confused and in state of dilemma. Inspire to Innovate
Storytelling Movement helps in five ways: 1. By reading or hearing powerful
stories, one would set vision for himself and execute goals without any
external influence (impacts reticular cortex function in the human brain ) 2.
Powerful Stories invoke one’s own choice of natural intelligence 3. Powerful
story is an edutainment (education + entertainment) 4. This process cuts-down
the re-skilling cost as individual inspires and learns skill on his / her own
rather external push. 5. Locations where these stories are created become
innovative. Inspire through Storytelling - Innovate for Life turning
is MISSION. IT is a DUTY of every CITIZEN to handhold next generation.
In
the previous issue, I discussed about definition of success. There is famous
book named "Sometimes we will win Sometimes you will Lose Learn" by
John C. Maxwell. Many entrepreneurs digest this philosophy and execute it
without deviation. We discussed about Bill Gates previous venture
at Traf-O-Data before Microsoft,
Thomas Edison's life history, Walt Disney failures before creating most successful, creative and imaginative
virtual world on the earth, Henry
Ford's initial failures before
building a successful venture, Ford Motor Company, Hajabba, a poor orange seller, motivation behind starting a school in spite of
his adversities, Oprah Winfrey's challenges during her childhood before
becoming most successful TV talk show and billionaire anchor, and the inspiring
statistics about 100 (billionaires) richest people (2013 based- 73
self-made with 18 no college degree, 36 poor parents and some both), etc. Trust
you are inspired and they are useful.
Dear Friends, Hope you are doing well in your
exams. Sun is scorching. Temperature got increased to 45 degrees in some parts
and getting heat waves alert. Did you ever find the reasons for these
abnormalities? Partially, there are manmade reasons. What could be the
consequence? Of course it is no brainer, affect our water resources. If this is
the rate of increase, every water drop becomes precious and equally weighs with
blood drop. Consequently leads to water wars and blood baths. No one wishes
that situation and deserves the plight. who can avert this situation? who can
turn around these circumstances? Can I blame my grandparents to this state of
affairs? It is unfair. Can I fault my parents? It is too late. Can I take the
responsibility? Yes or No, but little impact. Then I can shed the responsibility
on you? Again unfair but you have to take undisputed ownership to save the
earth. Save your future. I may sound illogical but what to do? You have the
energy to recover from this turmoil. You have power to build green planet. You
have enough time to see the results, learn from them, unlearn from them and
relearn from them. I plea, request, beg you. Wake up now. You are the savior.
You are like knight in shining armour!
Recently I read an article in punemirror.in. I
really got thrilled. City Pride School at Nigdi
Pradhikaran in Pimpri- Chinchwad has been innovatively saving water.
They found many students tend to throw the remaining water in their water
bottles when they move out of school. School houses more than 1600 students and
even if they throw 200 ml, it counts to 300-400 lts of water. This concept made
them to install buckets in their path and requested students to pour in those
buckets which could be used for moping the floor and making green cover in the
campus. Surprisingly this formula worked for them. It is not just saving water
but it is real education. It is culture building exercise. You know what,
students are harvesting tomatoes, lady fingers, spinach etc and their kitchen
garden project is most successful. I am radically thinking in lines to one of
the parents of the school which was stated in the article. I am sending this
NEWS letter to more than 10000+ schools, colleges and universities every month.
if one school saves 300 liters per day, 10000 institutions can save 30,00,000
liters per day across India! Oh my god! More than number of liters, what kind
of culture we build for tomorrow?
Rajendra Singh, also
called as water man of India, from Rajasthan, who won Stockholm Water Prize, an award known as Nobel Prize in water. He
founded an NGO called Tarun Bharat Sangh in 1975. He started building johads ( rainwater
storage tank) in 1 single village and movement spread to more than 8600 johads
which collects rain water for dry seasons, brought water back to 1000 villages
and saved 5 important rivers. He took lot of hardship to promote this culture
of building check dams. He scarified his government job and personal life and
fighting for this great cause. We need to salute for his unrelenting efforts to
save the mother earth. What kind of inspiration he brings? What kind of
responsibility we own from his example? Think about it friends.(wikipedia)
Recently I was reading about Manoj Bhargava, an Indian-American billionaire, in
thetypicalindian.com and in buzzfeed.com, who is trying to solve water crisis
through his Rain Maker project, which converts any existing water (including
salt water) into drinkable water at the rate of 1000 gallons per hour! It is
yet to be released in the market. But once it is, it is going to solve water
crisis in coastal areas! Machinery does not occupy more than car size! This
tool imitates nature. It recycles its heat energy and makes it clean and
efficient! He is philanthropic and donated most of his wealth to develop
sustainable solutions like The Free Electric, with which Pedaling for one hour produces
electricity for 24 hours. He is also trying to develop blood flow
machine which reduces the workload on heart. Amazing work done by Manoj
Bhargava! Founded Billions in Change, truly working towards such billion change
tools! Thank you Manoj and World needs many more such solutions from you.
Similar to Rajendra Singh, Dr. Peter Morgan is
another water hero and received 2013 Stockholm Water Prize. He made remarkable
contribution in the field of water technology and sanitation. I was reading his
contributions from hydratelife.org. Dr. Morgan made 2 important inventions, “B”
type Bush Pump (raise water from anywhere between 3 meters to 100 meters and 15-35
liters per minute) and the Blair Ventilated Improved Pit (VIP) Latrine (solved
2 issues- smell, flies) which became defacto standards in Zimbabwe. By 2013
statistics, there are 50,000 “B” type Pumps installed in Zimbabwe. VIP latrine
designed in such a way that there is flow of air which ensures no smell and
vent pipe with screen ensures that no flies enter in it. Generally files enter
into latrine because of smell and follow light to get out. These 2 problems are
resolved. For more information, please read hydratelife.org. What kind of noble
motivation one should have to solve such grassroots issues? These are the
stories inspire us! Fills energy to do something noble and save the mankind.
Let me share another innovative water purifying
technology developed by Yuichi Katsuura, founder
of Nippon Basic Co., Ltd, Japan (nipponbasic.ecnet.jp). Nippon Basic developed
Bicycle type water purifying system called Cycloclean. It can produce drinking
water by pedaling a bicycle. Raw or Unclean water can be sourced from any
water source mechanism. What an innovation? It has wide application in Indian
context. You should work more towards such simple solutions which are
affordable, sustainable and comfortable. Thank you Nippon Basic for bringing
such innovative solution in the market.
Water and
Sanitation are interlinked. In this context, I would like to share story of Dr. Bindeshwar Pathak, an Indian sociologist, founder of Sulabh International who dedicated and started movement for
sanitation and hygiene. He combined technical innovations with humanitarian
philosophy. Organization works with 50,000 Sulabh volunteers, biogas linkage to
Sulabh toilets (160 biogas plants installed so far), fermentation plants, clean
water rich in phosphorus and connected to make organic manure. This movement is
reducing greenhouse emissions. Developed two-pit pour-flush toilet (Sulabh
Shauchalaya System), made it affordable and comfortable. He could able to liberate
nearly more than a million scavengers from subhuman occupation of cleaning
excreta of others and carrying it as head-load. Provided rehabilitation and
education / vocational training to their children. Constructed more than 7,500
public toilets in public systems and more than 10 million people using them
daily. He created good business model as well - pay and use model. Developed convenient
technology which takes just 10 days to degrade the waste, without churning. Dr
Pathak received Stockholm Water Prize in year 2009, Padma Bhushan and so many
other important awards. What kind of inspiration he is brining to all of us?
For more information, Please do read www.sulabhinternational.org. You will
understand the depth of the problem and his work and achievements!
My
Dear Friends, Hope
you found useful reading these inspirational stories! Hope you got inspired to do good for better society! Inspire, Inspire
and Inspire!!! Friends, I
appreciate your valuable time. I will again see you in my next letter. Thank
you for giving me this great opportunity to write to you and help me to learn,
unlearn and relearn in this process. I personally thank all websites, authors
who are publishing / writing such an inspiring stories for common good and
contributing for better world. Thank you Authors and Websites.
With Best Wishes
Dr. Ravi Saripalle
About Author: Dr.
Ravi Saripalle is Mentor and Believer of Inspire to Innovate (i2i) Storytelling
Movement. He is also 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 spread inspiration through real time case
studies in the form of short stories, embedding them in the form of letters
(epistolary form) and sending them to 10K+ schools, colleges, universities
across India. Also conducting Storytelling Workshops to inspire students for
select students. Providing customized mentoring to specific inspired students. Dr.
Ravi is having more than 17 years of experience in Industry, Consultancy, Training,
Mentoring and Research. Prior to this current role, Dr. Ravi worked with Wipro
Technologies for more than a decade. Dr Ravi can be reached at saripalle.ravi@gmail,com or http://i2itm.blogspot.in/ or facebook.com/saripalle.ravi
Links to previous letters
1.
Letter to Student Series- Volume 1 and Issue 7 (Inspire To Innovate
(I2i) Storytelling Movement @ Students Of India)
2.
Letter to Student Series- Volume 1 and Issue 6 (Inspire To Innovate
(I2i) Storytelling Movement @ Students Of India)
3.
Letter to Student Series- Volume 1 and Issue 5 (Inspire To Innovate
(I2i) Storytelling Movement @ Students Of India)
http://i2itm.blogspot.in/2016_01_01_archive.html
4.
Letter to Student Series- Volume 1 and Issue 4 (Inspire To Innovate
(I2i) Storytelling Movement @ Students Of India)
5.
Letter to Student Series- Volume 1 and Issue 3 (Inspire To Innovate
(I2i) Storytelling Movement @ Students Of India)
6.
Letter to Student Series- Volume 1 and Issue 2 (Inspire To Innovate
(I2i) Storytelling Movement @ Students Of India)
7.
Letter to Student Series- Volume 1 and Issue 1 (Inspire To Innovate
(I2i) Storytelling Movement @ Students Of India)
Disclaimer:
The goal of this i2i 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.
