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The Buzz: Shashi Tharoor on India's soft power
Shashi Tharoor, India’s minister of state for external affairs, says India should influence the world though soft power -- attracting other countries to India’s example. Here are some responses from Twitter: Tharoor: The penetration of mobile phones in India - testimony to development / empowerm …
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The Buzz: His Holiness the Karmapa on heart-centered design
His Holiness the Karmapa, a spiritual Buddhist leader, proposes that the worldwide acceleration of technological connectivity should be accompanied by increased heart-to-heart connections. Check out some reactions from Twitter: His Holiness the Karmapa speaking his story of being "found" at 7 a …
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The Buzz: Sashi Tharoor on India's soft power
Sashi Tharoor, India’s minister of state for external affairs, says India should influence the world though soft power -- attracting other countries to India’s example. Here are some responses from Twitter: Tharoor: The penetration of mobile phones in India - testimony to development / empowerme …
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TEDIndia Session 9: Within You, Without You
"Within You, Without You," the final session of TEDIndia, rings in with a drumbeat -- the rich, propulsive stylings of Sivamani. He combines the sounds of a variety of percussive instruments with a recurring motif: water. Dipping instruments in water as he plays them, the instruments take on the cha …
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Meet the TED Blog and social media team for TEDIndia
Our gavel-to-gavel coverage of TEDIndia comes from an extraordinary team. Matthew Trost, Shanna Carpenter and Jenny Zurawell have been blogging and live-tweeting conference proceedings as they happen. Emily McManus provided backstage reports. Leigh Ferreira led the social-media effort on Twitter and …
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The Buzz: Eve Ensler begins a celebration of the "girl self"
Eve Ensler brought her dynamic stage presence to TEDIndia, to fight for a new celebration and love for the girl inside us all. The audience gave her all the love she wanted, and couldn't stop sharing her words on Twitter: Being a girl is so powerful that we've had to train everyone not to be a g …
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The Buzz: Kiran Sethi makes "contagious" a good word
Kiran Sethi is the founder of a revolutionary new school in India, called The Riverside School. She's changing the way we think about children, the way they think about themselves and her ideas are contagious! Here are some of the real-time reactions: Finally. Kiran Sethi at TEDIndia ... Riversi …
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TEDIndia Session 8: Learning to Learn
Here's what we learned from the the second-to-last session of TEDIndia, "Learning to Learn": Sashwati Banerjee brings greetings from the longest street in the world: Sesame Street. Director of Sesame Workshop, Sashwati Banerjee takes the stage after a fun dialogue between Googly and Chamki, two c …
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TEDIndia Session 7: The Power of Stories
Abhay Deol at TEDIndia, Session 7, "Power of Stories," November 6, 2009, in Mysore, India. Credit: TED / James Duncan Davidson Beginning the last session of the day, Lakshmi Pratury takes the stage and explains that this theme was chosen because she believes that stories are extremely powerful. S …
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The Buzz: "Hats off" to Ananda Shankar Jayant, cancer conqueror
Dancer and choreographer Ananda Shankar Jayant brought the audience to its feet at the conclusion of Session 7 with a moving story of her battle against cancer -- and to reclaim her life through dance. Here's what Twitter was saying: Awesome!!!! simply marvelous !! Ananda Shankar! Hats Off!! Kudo …
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The Buzz: Ramachandra Budihal augments reality
Session 7: Ramachandra Budihal clearly thrilled TEDIndia's live audience -- and also our webcast audience, who had plenty to say on Twitter: The 3D augmented device demoed by Ramachandra Budihal . Now I know how I can communicate folk stories to the future generation -- ramkrsna Just watched a …
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TEDIndia Session 6: Green and Blue
Jib Ellison at TEDIndia, Session 6, "Green and Blue," November 6, 2009, in Mysore, India. Credit: TED / James Duncan Davidson “If you want to change the world, take something powerful and nudge it,” said Chris Anderson at the dawn of Session 6. For speakers in “Green and Blue,” the environment i …
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The TED bags are here
As Lakshmi announced from stage in Session 6, the TEDIndia gift bag, made by Rickshaw Bagworks, was held up in customs coming in to India for the conference. But at midnight last night, they cleared. (Whew.) This morning we walked into the TED staff room to find a beaming Mark Dwight (left), the …
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The Buzz: Sidi Goma energizes the room with dance
Sidi Goma at TEDIndia, Session 6, "Green and Blue," November 6, 2009, in Mysore, India. Credit: TED / James Duncan Davidson As the TEDIndia audience returned from its lunch break, the Sidi Goma dancers took the stage and gave a rousing performance. Drumming, dancing and shouting to the heavens, …
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The Buzz: Kavita Ramdas on women's world
Kavita Ramdas, director of the Global Fund for Women, investigated how women are redefining certain paradoxes in their lives, for example the balance between modernity and tradition, and preserving a culture which has oppressive elements. Here are the reactions from Facebook and Twitter: Kavita …
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The Buzz: Sunitha Krishnan on the human face of human trafficking
Sunitha Krishnan shared heartbreaking stories about some of the 3,200+ girls she has rescued from Indian brothels with her organization Prajwala. Through education, rehabilitation, and job training, she helps to restore hope and dignity to victims, and she encourages us to empathize with and accept …
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TEDIndia Session 5: Redesigning Community
"Redesigning Community" was a diverse, but powerful, session. Speakers tackled the literal aspects of design, as well as the more abstract idea of social redesign. As the session progressed, talks became more and more emotionally intense. Banny Bannerjee is a design educator, and today he's talk …
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The Buzz: Anil Gupta finds innovation by the poor, for the poor
As the founder of the Honeybee Network, Anil Gupta and his team search the world for low-cost innovations created out of the necessities of poverty. Today, at TEDIndia, he energizes the audience by animatedly explaining his creative model and showing the amazing inventions they've come across. His e …
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The Buzz: Shukla Bose inspires with her story of education
Shukla Bose founded the Parikrama schools -- a system for poor children in India that gives individual attention and gets spectacular results. From the TEDIndia stage, her story inspired and warmed the hearts of the audience. Here's what they had to say: Backstage: Saw Shukla Bose before #TEDInd …
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TEDIndia Session 4: Reinventing Development
Photo: Sendhil Mullainathan at TEDIndia, Session 4, "Reinventing Development," November 6, 2009, in Mysore, India. Credit: TED / James Duncan Davidson Session 4 of TEDIndia, "Reinventing Development," brought together some of the most innovative minds working in India's development sector. Here's …
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