Theme: Period ;

The boundaries of human threshold are a marvellous study, each challenge forces us to debate our own assumptions about our endurance. For how long can we stand the misconstrued shackles of our own society? What strength of understanding would it take to put a stop to the wrong and sieve it from the grey? When will we open our minds to the newer and braver dawn of civilisation? In this era of modern advances, we have to break the taboo that surrounds matters in order to broaden our perspective.

The word Period, boasts thoughtful roles like a characteristic and meaningful interval of time, the end to a sentence or the declaration of the end of an individual's statement. Yet it is often associated with menstruation and induces uncomfortable thoughts. Our motive is to normalise this natural phenomena.

A semicolon in grammar is used to signify that the author could've stopped the sentence but chose to continue instead. Despite, all the boundaries in the society, people choose not to stop and continue their fight for change.

Together the two elements form the centric theme, Period; signifies an endless battle against taboos in society.

We at TEDxCMRIT wish to break stereotypes and to bring something new to our audience. With a word so eloquent, we hope to make an impact that will last beyond the event.Because life always has something good in store for us.

CMRIT Auditorium(DWANI)
132, AECS Layout, ITPL Main Road
Kundanahalli
Bangalore, Karnataka, 560037
India

Jayna Kothari

Advocate and Executive Director of CLPR

An advocate practising in the Karnataka High Court and the Supreme Court of India. She is also the Executive Director of the Centre for Law & Policy Research which works extensively on the protection of constitutional rights of transgender persons. Jayna has been awarded the Wrangler D.C. Pavate Fellowship in Cambridge University. Her research and practice interests include constitutional law, including the right to education, health and housing, gender, disability rights, environmental law. Her book, “The Future of Disability Law in India” was published in 2012 by Oxford University Press and is one of the first books on disability law in the country.She is also a recipient of the National Child Rights Fellowship, 2010 awarded by Child Rights and You (CRY). Her talk aims to throw light on the gender based discrimination in India and the need for legal protection of transgender rights.

Mariyam Saigal

Performer

Mariyam Saigal is pursuing her degree in psychology. She works as a content writer at YourQuote. Which is a writing app that has a vision to democratize creative expression. Published in the first print anthology of The Bombay Review (literary magazine). She's a slambassdor of Airplane Poetry Movement. She has been featured across Bangalore by different collectives like 100 thousand poets for a change, Greenpeace, Slamboyance, Koramangala Socials: Papermoon, etc. She's been featured by the Habitat too. She was a semi-finalist for the regional poetry slam conducted by Inverse at Goa, 2017. She was a performer at Spoken Fest conducted by Kommune in Mumbai, 2017. Conducted, hosted and organized several events in Bangalore. She recently went on a spoken word tour to Maharashtra where she spread the culture of spoken word in tier 2 and tier 3 cities.

Mike Murali

Chief Fun Officer & Director of Marketing at Capgemini

Chief Fun Officer & Director of Marketing at Capgemini. Emceeing 1600 shows in 15 countries over the last 16 years, Mike Murali has made his stage presence sought. Holding 2 Guinness Book of World Records, in 2 years straight for the largest Bollywood dance lesson and the other for the largest fitness lesson in the world, Mike Murali truly leads a life thinking out of the box! A stadium commentator in T20 cricket World Cup, in India in 2016, Mike Murali has also made his presence in the Limca Book of records for running the longest running show in Corporate and for his Band RubberBand playing for over 550 nonstop Mondays. He runs EFGH(Every friend gives help), which is a NGO that caters to the needs of the underprivileged.

Nelson Vinod Moses

Founder of Suicide Prevention India Foundation

A freelance journalist who writes on mental health and social entrepreneurship. His writing has appeared in Fortune, Forbes, The Times of India, Quartz, HuffingtonPost, Businessworld, Business Standard and YourStory. He’s a founding Managing Trustee of Prafull Oorja, a non-profit organization that conducts yoga training and services to under-resourced populations, including special needs children, rural women and youth. He has been researching and understanding mental health, suicide awareness and suicide prevention. Suicide Prevention India Foundation (SPIF)is the fruition of that journey.It works in the area of suicide prevention and awareness and plans to create a collaborative platform for everybody associated with suicide prevention. And his talk will be reflecting the same.

No Treble Bangalore

Acapella Group

A group that can treble the calmness of your mind. The journey that started on the corridors of MS Ramaiah College has made sure that this versatile Acapella group, has it all. No Treble, was started in Bangalore in January 2016 and was the brain child of Joewin Shamalina. This group uses their vocal cords as instruments, and does its own rendition of songs in about 6 different Indian Languages. Grabbing the winners position in 8 colleges fests, straight, they embarked to represent India in the Lincoln centre, New York, on the 25th of March 2018. This was in lieu of the invitation by the Music Arranger Deke Sharon of the torch bearer in the rise in popularity of Acapella, Pitch Perfect. A group of young vibrant engineers and architects, that sing for their passion, and love for music, Joewin, Sanjana, Anushree, Aakash and Suraj, without a doubt, are gonna come and sooth us with their melody.

Smita Kulkarni

Co-Founder of Stonesoup

A lady of substance and the co-founder of StoneSoup has been tirelessly working towards educating, informing and helping individuals to build a Swachh Bharat, one home at a time. She is a techie turned environmental activist turned entrepreneur. Smita Kulkarni is one of the founding members of Bangalore Eco Team(BeT) that is a congregation of city-wide volunteers working on Solid Waste Management initiatives. She has been instrumental in getting plastic ban implemented in HSR Layout and has worked with many other wards to spread the movement across Bangalore and beyond. Particularly passionate about spreading the word on sustainable menstruation, Smita will be enlightening us about the same.

Sourav Karmakar

Indian Chapter Lead for Lunar Mission One and Space Renaissance International

Sourav Karmakar is the Founder & The Head of Infinos Tech LLP. As a researcher on Nanotechnology, and Aerospace. Sourav is an artist and co-author of 2 Novels in the USA called Blow the Winds Southerly and Seiler House.His talk aims to gravitate towards the requisite for every individual to a lend a hand to space and space-related affairs. He Indian chapter lead for two International Aerospace Organisations namely Lunar Mission One and Space Renaissance International.