Dr. Soma Ghosh is a vocalist from the Benares Gharana, having received the
initial stages of training from her mother Smt. Archana Chakravarty and later
from Shri Narayan chakravartty of Senia Gharana. She received her M. Mus &
PhD in Chhota Khayal under Pt. Chittaranjan Jyotishi of Gwalior Gharana and
Under Smt. Bageshwari Devi, she specialized in the genres that typify Benares singing,
namely Thumri, Hori, Chaiti, Kajari, Dadra and Ghazal.
Dr. Soma Ghosh with Team Rosehub
Dr. Soma Ghosh is the daughter of freedom fighter, Shri Manmohan
Chakarvarty and adopted daughter of Bharat Ratna Ustad Bismillah Khan, with
whom she had the opportunity to have jugalbandi / duet, five times, one of
which was at the Rashtrapati Bhavan and once at the Parliament of India where
she was facilitated by the President of India, Hon. Dr. A.P.J.A.Kalam, Smt.
Sonia Ghandhi & Shri Jaswant Singh and again in 2010 by the President of
India, Hon. Smt Pratibha Patil. She is also the first women to ever perform in
the Parliament of India.
Here comes
the second episode of our Gap Sap Series Season2.Meet the tough lady, Padma Shree
Smt. Janak Palta Mcgilligan (Janak Didi), with a tender heart that is utterly
filled with the Bhartiya Sanskriti. Hailing from the lineage of Guru Nanak Dev
ji, she talks about her childhood, her schooling the tantrums that taught her
morals of life. From creation a history in PGIMER, Chandigarh, to adopting the
Bahai Dharma in search of God, she now stands as the founding trustee and Vice
chairperson of Jimmy McGilligan Centre for Sustainable Development, an Indore
based Non-Governmental Organization working for sustainable community
development. She is also the former director of Barli Development Institute for
Rural Women. Watch the video. Like | Share | Comment
The Gap sap series of the year 2015-2016 witnessed
interesting rendezvous with eminent personalities like social entrepreneurs and
IPS officers, which revealed their journey through the thick and thin beginning
from childhood to the stage where they stand today. The series had served as an
inspiration for the youth as well for the experienced, teaching them to never
give up or lose their morale in times of distress.
Here we come again, with yet another set of exciting success
stories in the Gap sap Series, Season 2. To begin with, we have had a very
Interesting interaction with Mr. Deepak Gadhia, the Founder of Flareum Solar
Technologies Private Limited and the man behind the working of the World's
Largest Solar Steam Cooking System. Check out the video to know more about how the
Sun is used to cook the bun!
With over 15 years of experience in the training industry, conducting workshops for over 250 companies, it surprised most people when Pankaj decided to quit the corporate world and follow his heart to do what he loved the most - travel across the country on his bike, and seek adventures that stir his soul. And he got a lot more than what he expected.
Pankaj, a qualified expedition leader having graduated from the Himalayan Mountaineering Institute, has trekked some tough terrains, biked across various locales and lived in harsh conditions, just to fuel his passion for adventure. And somewhere along the way, as he met with people from different regions and cultures, he graduated from being a traveler to a story-seeker. His interactions with people gave him a good pulse on how they feel, what they go through, and somewhere deep down; he wanted to make a difference in their lives.
Pankaj at Rosehub's Office during his Varanasi stay.
So he packed his bags, set off on his bike armed with his cameras, raw talent and a heart of gold, in search of stories that needed a happier ending. Join the Journey of Doing Right and help us complete the stories we find along the way, with our Do Righter Pankaj Trivedi. (Quoted from: http://doright.in/pankaj-trivedi/)
We had a wonderful conversation with Prof. Kunal Karan; Department of Chemical and Petroleum Engineering, University of Calgary, Canada. He works in the field of alternative energy, specifically on ‘electrochemical’ energy conversion and storage technologies. He is internationally recognized for his notable contributions in the field of fuel cells, which is an energy conversion technology akin to batteries that produces electricity directly from fuels. He is author of over 100 peer-reviewed publications and has been invited to give research talks across the globe. At the University of Calgary, he co-founded and is also an Associate Director of the Calgary Advanced Energy Conversion and Storage Research – Technologies (CAESR-Tech) group. Prof. Kunal Karan spend his growing years in different states/cities in Eastern India. He obtained his undergraduate education in Chemical Engineering at IIT (BHU) and then moved to Canada for higher studies and work. follow this link to know more about him: http://schulich.ucalgary.ca/kkaran/
It was a overwhelming moment for us as one of India's most dignified educator, researcher and #PadmaShriAward winner Prof. R. H. Singh, visited Rosehub's office at MCIIE IIT-BHU. His enormous contribution in the field of medicine brings him this homer of highest altitude. He has devoted his whole life to reestablish the forgotten heritage of Indian traditional #Ayurveda
Watch Manish Jain Workshop: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pJOAAGV46ZQ In this episode we have interviewed Mr. Manish Jain graduated from the Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur (1993) with a degree in Electrical Engineering. He was Director of Engineering and worked in USA and India in the area of VLSI Design before deciding to dive into the popular science education space full time in 2013. Mr. Manish spends a lot of time these days looking at the science behind the simple toys in the videos and is passionate about sharing the magic with people. He firmly believes this approach can revolutionize learning since toys speak the language that children understand. He can be reached at manish.jain@gmail.com(9880413124). He is also interested in taking science/research to general populace. Some of his popular animated films in Earth Science/Astronomy are here. http://www.arvindguptatoys.com/
Prof. Sandeep desai is an known educator and he has dedicated most of his life for education of the underprivileged. Coming from a middle class family Prof. Desai did his bachelors from "marine engineering college " the only one in the country at that moment for engineering and then worked in a shipping company till he decided to take up business management as a masters degree.
his mom being a charitable teacher inspired him to teach alongside her whenever he got the chance to.
Prof. Desai's main focus is of having english medium education for the underprivileged or the rural people at almost free or as we can say at minimal expencess.
according to him rural areas need to be focused on cause most of the metropolitan cities don't require a program like this, places like Rajasthan require it.
he further refers to his plans of taking help from masses for spreading education to underprivileged with help of social media and new pass outs of IIT and IIM.
he further quotes that mostly in rural areas there is lack of studios atmosphere as compared to big cities where even parents feed their kids with adequate knowledge.
he further says that his organization concentrates on state board rather than CBSE for their schools as it is easy to control and teach by their methods. According to Prof. Desai even if the kids live in villages they should know how to communicate in English as it is a global language in order to communicate and grow their business(small scale industries)
He also mentions the focus on training of the teachers who teach at these special school and mentions that in future he plans to hire married teachers as they have been facing a problem with the unmarried getting married and leaving the village thus leaving them with less of teachers at that single point of time. They pay around 4.5 thousand average to a teacher which is not much as compared to govt. scale but it is good according to the town, small city or villages.
Dr. R Balasubramaniam (Balu) is a development activist who is a physician by qualification. After his MBBS, he earned his MPhil in Hospital Administration & Health Systems Management from BITS, Pilani. He has a Masters in Public Administration from the Harvard Kennedy School, Harvard University.
His living habits were greatly influenced by the teachings of Swami Vivekananda and at the age of 19, he founded the Swami Vivekananda Youth Movement (www.svym.org) based on the principles of Ahimsa (non-violence), Satya (Truth), Seva (Service) and Tyaga (Sacrifice).
He has spent the last 31 years of his life in the service of the rural and tribal poor in the forests of India. He has built this non-profit organization into India’s leading development NGO and the Swami Vivekananda Youth Movement (SVYM) today runs more than 50 projects reaching out to nearly a million people across the state of Karnataka and also has centers in the USA and UK.
He is also the Founder and Chairman of Grassroots Research and Advocacy Movement (www.graam.org.in).
Dr R Balasubramaniam is also the recipient of numerous other State and National Awards.
Apart from lecturing & teaching regularly at many reputed universities around the world on Leadership, he was the distinguished Frank Rhodes Professor at Cornell University, USA.
As the Vigilance Director, he has assisted the Lok Ayukta (the anti-corruption agency), Karnataka in investigating into issues of mal-administration and Corruption in the health sector and in the Public Distribution System.
He was the Head and Visiting professor of the Vivekananda Chair of the University of Mysore. He has traveled widely within and outside the country promoting the concept of participatory sustainable development, which is contextually relevant and culturally appropriate.
He is a Tata Scholar, a Mason Fellow of the Harvard Kennedy School and a Fellow at the Hauser Center for Non-profits, Harvard University. He teaches Leadership in reputed Universities both in India and abroad apart from running leadership workshops for corporates, non-profits and government agencies.
He has authored 5 books and he also writes extensively about Swami Vivekananda and on Development Issues in local Kannada and English newspapers and in his blog at rbalu.wordpress.com. His latest book ‘I, the Citizen’ has been widely acclaimed around the world.
Watch other episodes of Gap-Sap: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLtOEYARoqDwvLaJrCFoAYYnGJK1hrm3zc
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Shri Pawan Gupta holds a B. Tech. from IIT Delhi. He ran his own industry in Bihar before deciding to take up some studies about society. He along with his wife started an NGO (Society for Integrated Development of Himalayas) near Mussoorie which has been focusing on education. Through their work with rural Himalayan communities, he became aware of the limitations of modern education.
Mr. Pawan Gupta is greatly influenced by Mr. Dharampal with whom he shared a very close relationship for the last 10 years of Mr. Dharampal’s life. He started becoming aware of his own, hidden assumptions about life, development, backwardness, and the Indian society. Mr. Dharmpal introduced Pawan to Mahatma Gandhi. The research work and insights of Mr. Dharampal about world politics and Indian social structures combined with the writings of Mahatma Gandhi helped Pawan understand the modern systems and their stranglehold on the lives of ordinary people. They helped him to formulate a framework through which it became easier to understand modernity and how it leaves very little space for leading a free, meaningful and relaxed life.
Pawan has been working closely with the teachers’ community, has performed important research to understand the real and imagined expectations (“A Matter of Quality”); what impacts the behavior of children (“Child and Family”) in the rural Indian context; the values and assumptions imbedded in Indian textbooks (“Text and Context”). These studies raised fundamental issues related to education in India.
Pawan writes regularly for Hindi newspapers, magazines and journals, and English journals regarding the present socio-political issues, and education in its wider context. He is deeply interested in exploring the connection between the inner and outer world, traditional knowledge systems, socio-political issues and education. He is connected with several bodies working in these areas.
Pawan lives in Mussoorie and travels throughout the country to share his ideas and thoughts.
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Dr. Deshpande has pursued a successful entrepreneurial career for the last three decades. He is involved either as the founder, a founding investor or chairman of several companies including Cascade Communications, Sycamore Networks, Coral Networks, Tejas Networks, Cimaron, Webdialogs, Airvana, Sandstone Capital, A123 Systems and Curata.
His excellence in entrepreneurship prompted him to create enabling ecosystems for entrepreneurs around the world. With social innovation as the fundamental area of focus, he set up the Deshpande Center for Social Entrepreneurship in India, Merrimack Valley Sandbox in Lowell/Lawrence Massachusetts and Pond-Deshpande Center at the University of New Brunswick in Canada. To know more about him: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gururaj_Deshpande
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