Letter to Student Series : Volume 4 Issue 1

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 2^nd 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 5^th 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.

Letter to Student Series : Volume 3 Issue 12

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.

Letter to Student Series : Volume 3 Issue 11

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 11”. 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.

Padma Awardee Story Series-Episode 5- E. Sreedharan, Metro Man of India : Elattuvalapil Sreedharan, popularly known as the "Metro Man of India", is an Indian civil engineer and a retired Indian Engineering Service (IES) officer. He has immensely contributed towards public transportation system especially metro network across India. He has amazing project management and leadership skills which has been exhibited in every project he has undertaken. He was awarded with Padma Shri  and Padma Vibhushan by the Government of India and many other prestigious awards for his service to the nation and engineering world. Request you to listen to his amazing life story at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pQ55EPmmJIs and get inspired!

Padma Awardee Story Series-Episode 6- Jadav Payeng, Forest Man of India : Jadav Payeng, A Green Promoter from Assam, single handedly  planted saplings on a sandbar of the river Brahmaputra for almost 30 years which turned out to be a man made forest covering 1360 acres. Today it is home for Bengal Tigers, Indian Rhinos, Deer, Rabbits, Elephants, huge flora and fauna etc.   Request you to listen to his amazing life story at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gt-FHnVQShA and get inspired!

Inspiring Story Series: Episode 8-Dasarth Manjhi, Mountain Man of India: Dasarath Manjhi was a labourer from Gehlaur village, Gaya District, Bihar. He carved a path 360 ft, 30 ft wide and 25 ft deep through a hill using 2 simple instruments (Hammer and Chisel). He did this noble effort for almost 22 years. The new path reduced the district of Atri and Wazirganj sectors of the Gaya district from 80 km to 3 km. Request you to listen to his amazing life story at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lEwIvYtP65c and get inspired!

Asharam, Son of Ragpicker, Secures Seat in most Prestigious AIIMS, Jodhpur!
Asharam, son of Ranjit Choudhary, secured seat in AIIMS, Jodhpur. He got AIR 707 at overall ranking and AIR 141 in OBC category. After 10^th class, Asharam was selected by Dakshina Foundation for scholarship and residential classes in Pune. This has turned his life. His father is Rag picker by profession and he is eldest of 3 siblings. His brother Sitaram is studying 12^th class and sister is in 9^thclass. His father worked so hard and gave whatever required to him. Asharam is from Vijayganj Mandi village, 40km from Dewas district, MP. Asharam wants to give back to his village and wants to come back to his village and do his medical practice. Best wishes to You, Asharam. Thank you Times of India for publishing an inspiring story. To read more, Please visit https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/indore/ragpickers-son-secures-seat-in-aiims-jodhpur/articleshow/65072188.cms

Pranjal Dubey, Former Associate of SAP SE, Sold his house to educate Rural Youth, Sandalpur village , Dewas District, MP:  Pranjal Dubey, a 40-year-old techie, gave up his lucrative software job at SAP SE, working on a mission to provide employment opportunities and improve the life of rural villages in MP. With this aim, he started Sant Singaji Institute of Science and Management (SSISM) in 2010, today educating more than 1,000 students and helping to reach nearby 200 villages. With the support of his mother Kalpana Dubey and wife Amita Dubey, Pranjal is working hard and smart to inspire rural students in terms of confidence and skill building! Today more than 100 students are working with IT giants like Cognizant, SAP LABs etc. Thank you Pranjal for the risk you have taken in your life, leaving amazing software career. Thank you to your family who are providing relentless support. Thank you Times for publishing inspiring stories. To read more, please visithttp://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/articleshow/53442710.cms? utm_source=contentofinterest&utm_medium= text&utm_campaign=cppst

Moksha, a Multi-Purpose Trolley aimed to ease the difficulty of carrying water and heavy weight items, designed by Arasavilli Pavan Kumar

Arasavilli Pavan Kumar, a student of Gayatri Vidya Parishad College For Degree and PG Courses, Visakhapatnam designed a wonderful trolley to ease the difficulty of hardworking women carrying water and workers carrying heavy items. This product is made of cane material and few customized iron parts to improve the strength and stability of the trolley. It is aimed to be cheap and affordable so that it becomes great productivity tool across developing nations.  He applied for The James Dyson Award, UK. Wish you best wishes Pavan Kumar. It is great effort! Keep ideating like this. To read more, please visit https://www.jamesdysonaward.org/2018/project/moksha/

Aadish Cheruku, 11- year old boy from Hyderabad, Cancer Survivor, is a Chess Champion : Aadish Cheruku is one among 15 selected globally to compete in the chess category at World Children Winners Games held at Moscow. Though he missed bronze medal by a whisker, but he is a real hero for many children. He got Cancer at the age of 5, underwent Chemo therapy for 9 months, isolated with whole world, revived completely through his fighting spirit and positive will. 2 years back, he got introduced to professional coach (Hanuman Satish) but acclaimed high in short period. Potentially he has great future. Best wishes Aadish! Keep going with positive spirit. To read more, please visithttp://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/articleshow/53206098.cms?utm_source=contentofinterest&utm_medium= text&utm_campaign=cppst

Renuka Yadav, who used to sell milk, daughter of domestic help, is First Woman Olympian: Renuka Yadav who is currently working as train ticket examiner with Central Railway in Mumbai, got selected for 16-member women's hockey squad for the Rio Olympics which India got opportunity after 36 years. It is not easy journey for Renuka. She used to sell milk as a young girl in Rajnandgaon, Chhattisgarh and parents used to work as domestic helps.  Renuka's hardwork, determination made her to reach this echelon and it is most happy moment to her and Nation too. Best wishes Renuka to you and Indian team. We wish you succeed. Thank you Times. To read more, please visit http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/articleshow/53185021.cms?&utm_source=contentofinterest&utm_medium= text&utm_campaign=cppst

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.