IITDhanbad
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Theme: Devil's Advocate

This event occurred on
October 8, 2017
11:00am - 2:30pm IST
(UTC +5.5hrs)
Dhanbad, Jharkhand
India

Mark Twain once said “Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to reform” .We at TEDxIITDhanbad, have set our hearts and riveted our brains to debunk myths and throw light on the inconspicuous perspectives this year . The TED mantra “Ideas Worth Spreading” , has inspired us to scour for speakers noted for their aberrant ideologies and twisted perceptions.We hope to spread atypical ideas and spark exuberant conversations through our event this year. We yearn to establish an unwritten statute that promotes desire driven ideas and loathes those driven by neccessity. Our theme, “the Devil’s Advocate” impresses upon positive thinking as we rely upon the ideology that "optimism is a weapon best forged in a devil's workshop" .

GJLT Hall
Indian Institute of Technology(ISM)
Dhanbad, Jharkhand, 826004
India
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Speakers

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Abhishek Sagar

Entrepreneur
Coaching institutes for competitive exams have boomed into an industry themselves. But, seldom are all aspirants provided equal opportunities to prove themselves. With a just cause of leveling the playing field , Mr. Abhishek Sagar co-founded testbook.com, an online preparation course engine. Initially starting out as a channel for GATE preparation, IIT-Delhi alumnus Mr.Sagar ensured that testbook adapted quickly and expanded to cater to those preparing for railway and bank exams as well. As the the Head of the Technical Team, he pioneered the efforts of creating an app for the same after realizing that not every aspirant has a laptop, but is most likely to possess a smartphone. Now handling the 22 lakh registered users alongside many others who've availed the current affairs app provided by Testbook.com, we're proud to present Mr.Abhishek Sagar as a speaker at TEDxIITDhanbad this year.

Mohit Kumar

Literary Enthusiasts
An Indian works for an average of 8.1 hours every day. This coupled with the social and economic responsibilities that one has to handle leaves very little for the pursuit of productive leisure. On the flip side, there exist a plethora of college students plagued by boredom, who scribble away ingenious thoughts on the back of their notebooks. As an initiative of unifying these polar opposites, scribbled stories has pioneered the advent of micro fiction in India. Starting out as a common endeavour, few intellectual people had to expand eventually after receiving a overwhelming number of entries requesting to be published. All this when scribbles stories was just a personal blog! Join us and scribbled stories, now averaging 1.6 million followers on their facebook page alone, as we host their first talk at IIT Dhanbad this September.

Rabi Bastia

Geoscientist
Rabi Narayan Bastia was born on 2 October 1958 in the Indian state of Orissa .After pursuing his discipline of choice for 9 years from various top notch universities, he started his career with ONGC in 1980 and later on joined RIL in 1996. He led the RIL exploration team at Krishna Godavari Basin and discovered the KG-D6 field in 2002 , reportedly the biggest oil find worldwide in that year. He is the president of E&P business at OilMax Energy , a Pune-based project management consultants in the energy sector, concurrently serving Asian Oilfield Services as a non-executive independent director and Hibiscus Petroleum Bernhad , Malaysia as a director till 2014. Given his vast experience, we certainly believe that Mr. Bastia would be one of those speakers who would be captivating the listeners as he encourages them to think laterally and throws deep insights on various topics and out of the box ideas.

Sachin Patwardhan

Spanish Sitar Player
Sachin Manohar Patwardhan, a versatile musician & composer (Sarod, Guitar & Mandolin artiste) from Indore. He is disciple of the great Maestro Ustad Amjad Ali Khan Sahab since 1999 and has composed/arranged many orchestras based on indian classical, western and light music. His USP is the Spanish Sitar which mesmerizes even the most mute minds.

Tannishtha Chatterjee

Film Actress
An Indian film actress who is best known in the West for her performance in the British film Brick Lane (2007), the film adaptation of Monica Ali's best selling novel of the same name. She was nominated for the British Independent Film Awards as the best actress for Brick Lane. Her other notable roles have been in Academy Award-winning German director Florian Gallenberger's film Shadows of Time, Road, Movie with Abhay Deol, Dekh Indian Circus, for which she won the National Film award and Marathi film Doctor Rakhmabai amongst many others.

Zeishan Quadri

Writer/Actor/Director
Funny how we speak of art as an abstract entity but try to define it in every possible way.... and every now and then, there comes along one revolutionary who expresses his art in a raw, unexpurgated form. His words, resonant, relatable and unrestricted. We are talking about none other than Mr.Zeishan Quadri, the boy from Jharkhand who poured his heart out as he wrote down chart-busting dialogues for the gangs of Wasseypur series. From being a boy with no particular goal, he went in to star as an actor and a writer in iconic Bollywood movies and has finally debuted as a director as well. Join us at TEDxIITDhanbad, as this art prodigy talks about his upcoming projects and the inspiration behind his art.

Organizing team

Agosh
Baranwal

Lucknow , India
Organizer