My
Dear Student Friends,
Greetings!
This is Dr. Ravi Saripalle, Founder, Inspire to Innovate (i2i) Storytelling
Movement. Welcome to “Letter
to Student Series- Volume 4 and Issue 1”. 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 10-Dr
Chandra Sekhar Sankurathri, A "Visionary" who is working towards cause of "Vision":
Dr. Chandra Sekhar established Sankurathri Foundation (SF) (Kakinada, Andhra
Pradesh) in 1989 in the memory of his wife Manjari, son Kiran and daughter
Sarada, who died in the bombing of Air India Flight 182, off the coast of Ireland on 23 June 1985. Today Sankurathri Foundation is
doing amazing service in multiple areas. The most noted one is Eye Care, providing
quality eye care to needy. Till date it served more than 28,30,866 out-patients
and performed over 2,47,221 surgeries. To know more about this
initiative, please do visit http://srikiran.org/aboutUs.aspx. You can listen to this inspiring
story of Dr Chandra Shekar, at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QWETGVUS6r0
and get
inspired!
Inspiring Story Series: Episode 11-
Dr Bakthi Yadav, Doctor Didi, Giving Free Treatment since 1948
: Dr Bakthi Yadav is an Indian doctor, the first female MBBS from Indore, famous for not taking any money and provide
free consulting. She is famously known as Doctor Didi. Hear her amazing story at
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0rjuQBp5xH8 and get inspired!
WAYU (Wind Augmentation Purifying Unit) , A device
which can purify air over 500 SqM: Council of Scientific and Industrial Research and National Engineering
Research Institute (CSIR-NEERI) developed a device which
purifies the air in the vicinity of 500 Square Meter. Surprisingly this device
only consumes half a unit of electricity for 10 hours. It requires Rs 1500
monthly maintenance cost. It costs around Rs. 60,000. When cities are fast polluting,
these kind of devices are great boon. Thank you CISR-NEERI for developing such a
device which creates social impact. To read more about this, please do visit http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/articleshow/65956297.cms?utm_source= ontentofinterest&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=cppst
Arunachal Pradesh, India's second
Open Defecation Free (ODF) state: After Sikkim, Arunachal Pradesh became 2nd Open
defection free state. This hill state has 21 districts. Inspired by Swachh
Bharat Mission (Gramin) SBM (G), central government sponsored around Rs.
12000 and state government around Rs. 8000, raising the grant to Rs. 20,000. The
beauty of this movement is, most
remotest villages along the international boarder have also participated. Truly
inspiring. In spite of communication challenges and strenuous trekking for days
together to carry construction materials, people of Arunachal Pradesh participated in
this ODF movement. Hats off to you! You are true inspiration. To read more
about this, please do visit https://www.indiatvnews.com/news/good-news-after-sikkim-arunachal-pradesh-becomes-second-open-defecation-free-state-in-india-419767
Harsukh Bhai, famously known as ‘the
birdman’ who feeds thousands of birds daily: A bird lover and nature lover, Harsukh Bhai feeds more
than 10,000+ birds everyday! Though he is 5th class dropout, but in
my view, he has done PhD in extending his love towards birds. He started this as
a hobby when he met with an accident. During this period, he hung cobs (extracted
from pearl millet) to his house which attracted a parrot. Gradually this
number increased and now it became farm for birds! He made a stand of old pipes,
each stand is good enough to hold 2,700 pearl millet cobs at once and
fixed them in his farm land. This family change the cobs twice a day so
that birds can comfortably feed on. Harsukh Bhai spends 1.5 lakhs per year to this
noble act. His entire family is participating in this good deed. Great act Harsukh
Bhai. To read more about this, please do visit https://www.indiatvnews.com/news/good-news-meet-the-birdman-harsukh-bhai-who-feeds-thousands-of-birds-daily-397109
The Interesting facts of Jaipur Foot Story:
Jaipur foot (prosthetic
limb) is considered as one of the biggest invention/innovation in orthopedic
field-medical science. It is an indigenous invention made in 1968. Indian
patients hold few cultural issues -should be low cost, people walk barefoot,
sit cross legged, squat and work on uneven land! This invention has been
evolved taking cues from these issues. It is a combined effort of Dr P.K Sethi
and sculptor Ram Chandra Sharma (a real and unsung hero among many who
are using these prosthetic legs). This effort has been supported by Bhagwan
Mahaveer Viklang Sahayata Samiti (BMVSS) which is started by a
noble man, D.R. Mehta. In last 40 years, BMVSS is credited with helping
more than 1.6 million disabled people. The medical
procedure is all free of cost! Credit goes to BMVSS! BMVSS is also
working on confidence building exercise and helping victims to get an
employability skills and providing few job opportunities as well. This invention costs just $20 as compared to a knee
replacement which could cost thousands of dollars. For this, it received award by
TIME magazine 50 best inventions in 2009. To read more, please do visit https://jaipurbeat.com/2017/07/01/12-things-you-need-to-know-about-the-world-famous-jaipur-foot/
Kere Kamegowda, 82-year-old man single-handedly
built 14 tanks to conserve water: Kere Kamegowda, an uneducated but undoubtedly a great
ecologist! This man singlehandedly built 14 tanks in Kundinibetta, near Bengaluru-Malavalli-Kollegal
Road, Chamarajanagar district. Started this journey 40 years ago,
he is truly visionary! He is highly technical in his approach- all 14 lakes are
interlinked. He even used prize money to build more new lakes! Humanity
prevails! To read more, please do visit http://achhikhabre.com/kere-kamegowda-ecologist/
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.
