“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 character of the life-giving substance that […]
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 […]
Photo: TEDIndia 2009. Mysore, India, November 4-7, 2009. Credit: TED / James Duncan Davidson 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 […]
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. She says that the TEDIndia team wanted […]
Photo: 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 is the object […]
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 […]
Kavita Ramdas at TEDIndia, Session 5, “Redesigning Community,” November 6, 2009, in Mysore, India. Credit: TED / James Duncan Davidson “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 […]
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 what they told us: Sendhil Mullainathan looks at a frustrating issue in public health […]
Photo: Pranav Mistry at TEDIndia, Session 3, “Wonder. Wonders.” November 5, 2009, in Mysore, India. Credit: TED / James Duncan Davidson A round-up of Session 3 from TEDIndia: Chris Anderson opens up the session reminding the audience of TED’s purpose: to re-awaken wonder. The TED experience is about channeling curiosity, which develops into wonder. Pawan […]
Dr. R.A Mashelkar at TEDIndia, Session 2, “Not Business as Usual,” November 5, 2009, in Mysore, India. Credit: TED / James Duncan Davidson A round-up from the second session of the first-ever TEDIndia: Lakshmi Pratury begins Session 2 by asking, “Why was TED destined to come to India?” She says it’s because 18 is a […]
Photo: Lakshmi Pratury and Chris Anderson at TEDIndia, Session 1, “Fast Forward,” November 5, 2009, in Mysore, India. Credit: TED / James Duncan Davidson A round-up from the thunderous first session of TEDIndia: Usha Uthup‘s mesmerizing voice rings in the first day of TEDIndia magic — Lakshmi Pratury, curator of TEDIndia, kicks off the first […]
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 […]
We worry that IM, texting, Facebook are spoiling human intimacy, but Stefana Broadbent‘s research shows how communication tech is capable of cultivating deeper relationships, bringing love across barriers like distance and workplace rules. (Recorded at TEDGlobal 2009, July 2009, Oxford, UK. Duration: 08:51) Twitter URL: http://on.ted.com/5N Watch Stefana Broadbent’s talk on TED.com, where you can […]