Theme: Ravenous for ideas

TEDxRavenshawUniversity is the maiden TEDx event to be held in the campus of Ravenshaw. It all began with a lustrous idea. A group of kindled minds and curious souls stayed up for nights together perfecting a plan to bring one of the most reputed stages of the world, into their dear college. Their aim has always been to help ignite the various ideas that nurture in the hearts of their fellow study-mates. They believed in their ideas and that it’d be welcomed with open arms into the learning spirit of Ravenshaw.
And thus, “they came, they saw, they conquered.”
Ideas have begun this whole journey, and thus, it is ideas that shall run it, drive it, and make it reach its very destination; success!

Seven Pillars of Wisdom
Ravenshaw University
Cuttack, Orissa, 753003
India

Abasar Beuria

Born and brought up in Cuttack, right from his childhood, Mr. Beuria started writing columns/articles for local magazines and newspapers. He cracked the civil services exams, deciding to go for the Foreign Services instead of staying peacefully in the country as an IAS or IPS officer and has represented India in seven countries

Ashish Birulee

Ashish Birulee, born and brought up in Jadugoda took the intense matter of nuclear disposal to the international limelight, using his skills as a documentary photographer. He highlighted the hazardous and cancerous diseases, genetic deformities in children and adults in Jadugoda.

D Prakash Rao

Born on 11 November 1958 in the silver city of India, Padma Shri Devarapalli Prakash Rao was a son of a World War II veteran who started working since the age of 7. Besides being a tea seller, he opened a school for the underprivileged and has provided education to hundreds of students. Along with this noble work, since 1978, he has donated blood over 200 times and platelets 17 times for which he holds the highest record of donating blood in Asia. Adding to feathers to his hat of social work, he has decided to donate his skeleton after death, to the anatomy section of the SCB Medical college, for the future students.

Ileana Citaristi

Padma Shri IlleanaCitaristi was born and brought up in the Renaissance capital of the world and then moved from Italy to India at a young age to pursue a career in kathakali. She is well known for amalgamating the ideas and concepts from different fields of art and presenting it through her dance skills. Besides the realm of dance, Ctaristi has also worked in movies and written books.

K Bhuvaneshwari Mishra

Beginning at a tender age of five, she moved forward to learn the art from the Mozarts in the field of Carnatic violin, namely GurushriDwaramDurga Prasad Rao, SangeetaSudhakaraMarellakeshava Rao amdPadmavibhusan Dr. Shri M. Balamuralikrishna. She also learnt Hindustani classical music from Pt. Ajoy Chakraborty. Miss Bhuvaneshwary has showcased her remarkable talent in films, telefilms, and recordings across the country.

Swayam Prakash Baral

Swayam Prakash Baral is an entrepreneur by profession and a social worker by choice and an exemplar of a young, ignited mind going places. At 23 years of age, he currently holds a plethora of responsibilities of being a managing director and a managing partner of three companies along with being a social worker working towards the development of the underprivileged sections of the society.