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Voices from all cultures and religions are coming together to affirm The Charter for Compassion. Along with the celebrations and events that will be taking place around the globe to mark this momentous occasion, we sought to understand what compassion meant to some inspiring Australians. In order of appearance, they are: Adriano Zumbo, Cathie McGinn, […]
From religious scholar Karen Anderson, whose 2008 TED Prize wish formed the seed of the Charter for Compassion: “The Golden Rule requires you, in a disciplined way, to discover what gives you pain and refuse to do that to others.” “At a time when religions are seen at loggerheads, the Charter is a cooperative exercise.” […]
Pulled from Twitter coverage of the live Charter event: “Compassion is a dangerous dream beacause it rocks the foundations of old interests and gives us new ground to stand on.” Rev. Dr. Joan Brown Campbell “In this room, we have words that make a difference between death and life. Words can bring life and words […]
Outside the Sydney Opera House, an ecumenical group holds the Yves Béhar-designed plaque for the Charter for Compassion.
This morning at 10am, Karen Armstrong unveiled the powerful text of the Charter for Compassion — the culmination of her 2008 TED Prize wish. Read and affirm the text of the Charter for Compassion >> The Charter for Compassion asks that people of all religions and moral codes to recognize the core value we share […]
It’s been four days since TEDIndia ended, and the attendees have been making their way home to cities across India and around the world. Thanks to all who’ve spent some of the travel time writing down their thoughts on this extraordinary past week. TED Fellow Dina Mehta rounded up her TEDIndia in tweets — a […]
In stunning large-format photographs, Edward Burtynsky follows the path of oil through modern society, from wellhead to pipeline to car engine — and then beyond to the projected peak-oil endgame. (Recorded at TEDGlobal 2009, July 2009, Oxford, UK. Duration: 3:40) Watch Edward Burtynsky’s talk on TED.com, where you can download this TEDTalk, rate it, comment […]
At TEDGlobal U, Cameron Sinclair shows the unreported cost of real estate megaprojects gone bust: thousands of migrant construction laborers left stranded and penniless. To his fellow architects, he says there is only one ethical response. (Recorded at TEDGlobal University 2009, July 2009, Oxford, UK. Duration: 3:06) Watch Cameron Sinclair’s talk on TED.com, where you […]
Bharath (his full name) was the local producer of TEDIndia, a calm authority figure in the middle of a large, international, multilingual crew. After the conference wrapped on Saturday afternoon, he had time to talk about the massive job of getting TEDIndia up and running. How did you get connected with TEDIndia? I’m basically a […]
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 Facebook, engaging the worldwide community, responding to viewer questions and sharing information so that […]
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 head of […]
The TEDIndia webstream goes live in 3 hours! Get the stream here, on the Times of India site: ted.indiatimes.com See the speaker list for Day 1 >> And the phone-friendly schedule >> Follow news from TEDIndia on Twitter: @TEDNews for conference procedings @TEDIndia for reports from onsite and our team around the world Above: VS […]
The TEDIndia attendees are starting to gather at the Infosys campus in Mysore. Above, TEDIndia co-host Lakshmi Pratury, in yellow, in conversation at the first big community dinner last night. More TEDIndia images here >> Follow TEDIndia news here >>
We’re thrilled to announce that Day 1 of TEDIndia — plus the closing session on Day 3 — will be webcast live, to the world, for free. The webcast is hosted by the Times of India, TEDIndia’s online media partner. On Thursday and Saturday, watch the TEDIndia webcast at ted.indiatimes.com. Visit the link now to […]
Above is the first grand meeting of the AV crews from India, UK and the US who’ll be working on TEDIndia. Camera operators, video experts, cabling, wiring and lighting techs, even the slide guy. Lakshmi tells them: We may not all come from the same place, we may not be able to understand each other […]
Ishan Bhalla is a volunteer at TEDIndia. TEDIndia volunteers — there are about 30 of them — will be onsite throughout the conference helping with registration, special requests and generally making things run smoothly. We spoke to Bhalla after orientation on Saturday. How did you find out about volunteering at TEDIndia? I’d been following the […]