Theme: TEDxGEC INQUILAB

In 2017, to take the TEDx experience a notch higher, we decided to go for a more focused event called ‘ARTiculate’ which featured prominent artists from different backgrounds who gave talks about the different aspects of art. The event was covered on a larger scale with India’s top music channel, Radio and Music TV covering our speaker Anish Sood, a DJ with the distinction of having performed worldover, and saw coverage by major dailies including the Times of India for a lineup that featured Dr Subodh Kerkar, founder of Museum of Goa and creator of Carpet of Joy, Aditya Jambhale, winner of the 2017 National Film Award for Best short film, and Mr Sood.
With our upcoming endeavour the ambitions are soaring and the anticipation is high as we kickstart the process of creating our dream line-up. In accordance with the spirit of TED, we will curate an event featuring the top names in unconventional and diverse fields. While always selecting the one who brought in a new perspective to the table, a new idea, an earth shattering innovation. We wish to celebrate revolution. We wish to bring to the fore, ‘INQULAB’. TEDxGEC INQUILAB .

Goa College of Engineering
Farmagudi
Ponda
Ponda, Goa, 403401
India

Dr. Premanand Ramani

Neuro-Spinal Surgeon

Dr. P.S. Ramani hails from the village of Wadi Talaulim in Goa. Dr. Ramani's family belonged to lower economic background. He completed his MBBS from Topiwala National Medical College & B.Y.L Nair Hospital, University of Mumbai. On completing his MS in Mumbai, he moved to Malmö, Sweden, to study Intracranial pressure monitoring and shortly after, he moved to Newcastle upon Tyne, England, to complete his advanced studies in neurosurgery. He was the first Asian to win the Paul Bucy Award from the University of Chicago. In 2011, he was presented with a lifetime achievement award by the British Association of Spinal Surgeons, and Hungary issued a postage stamp to honour him. Closer home, the people of his village rewarded his philanthropy by naming a village road after him. His birthday, 30 November, is celebrated as Neuro Spinal Day in India. In 2018, he was awarded the Walter Dandy Neurosurgical Society's Dandy Medal in United States. He was chosen for the Gomant Vibhushan Award.

Dr. Ravindra Kolhe

Doctor and Social Activist

Ravindra Kolhe is an Indian social activists and doctors working for tribal people in remote village areas of Bairagarh in Melghat region of Amravati district in Maharashtra. Ravindra Kolhe completed his MBBS in 1985 and MD in 1987 from Government Medical College, Nagpur. He has been actively working in Bairagarh area since 1985. He married Smita, also a doctor specializing in Ayurveda and Homeopathy, and together continued their work. They charged a nominal fee of ₹1(INR) for treatment and also run a Government ration shop. Apart from medicinal help, the couple also makes general awareness campaigns for the tribals. The works of Kolhe couple has resulted in reduction of infant mortality rate from 200 per 1000 to 40 and pre-school mortality rate from 400 per 1000 to 100. In 2019, the couple received Padma Shri, India's fourth highest civilian award

Naseema Khatoon

Human Rights activist

Naseema Khatoon was born in Chaturbhuj Sthan, Muzaffarpur in Bihar. Her father owned a tea stall, and was adopted by a sex worker. It was this adopted grandmother who raised Naseema as a child. Growing up in a red-light district, Khatoon's childhood was full of poverty, lack of education and hiding during police raids. Her only solace was that she and her siblings were not pushed into sex work. Things improved for her in 1995, when IAS officer Rajbala Verma decided to come up with alternate programs for sex workers and their families. Naseema enrolled in one such program, called "Better Life Option", earning up to ₹500 a month for crochet work. However, she faced much backlash for this from her neighbors, much to the anger of her father, who sent her to her maternal grandmother's house in Sitamarhi's Boha Tola. However, the coordinator of the NGO convinced her father, and she was given the opportunity to go to Mumbai to complete her basic education under the NGO.

Pundalik Naik

Konkani-language poet, novelist, playwright | Activist

Pundalik Narayan Naik (born 1952) is a Konkani-language poet, short-story writer, novelist, playwright, and screenwriter from Goa. He has 40 books and two films to his credit. He was awarded the Sahitya Akademi Award in Konkani for his work, Chowrang, in 1984, by Sahitya Akademi, India's National Academy of Letters. He served as the President of Goa Konkani Akademi (Goa Academy of Letters for Konkani) of the Government of Goa since 2002. He is well known in the state of Goa not only for his contribution to Konkani literature but also as a key figure in the popular movement, Konkani Porjecho Avaz. The movement aimed at fulfilling three key demands viz. the Official Language status to Konkani, Statehood to Goa and Inclusion of Konkani in the Eighth Schedule of the Constitution of India.

Tongam Rina

Journalist

Tongam Rina is a fearless journalist and a human rights activist. She is the Associate Editor of The Arunachal Times. She has been repeatedly threatened, and in 2012, was near-fatally shot outside her office after she wrote critical articles about corruption, militants and dam projects in Arunachal Pradesh. Rina was shot at by three gunmen on the evening of July 15, 2012, outside the Itanagar office of The Arunachal Times. She was immediately taken to the nearby hospital, where the doctors' prognosis revealed that she had sustained serious injuries to her intestines and spinal cord, and she was rushed into surgery. After repeated demands from the press, the state's police department handed over the case to the Central Bureau of Investigation, which turned it down. More than a year later, the police identified one Yumlang Achung as having planned the attack. It was later revealed that they were upset at Rina for not reporting about Achung or his group's activities in her newspaper.