Theme: Apricity

Light is a perennial symbol of the qualities most revered by the human mind: truth, beauty, and goodness. Illumination or enlightenment - the conferring of light unto man, rational or spiritual, and his emergence from darkness and ignorance - is considered the most exalted state attainable by man, and the imagination ascribes to an inner light the promptings of conscience and consciousness. And the Sun, the original source of light and life, has universally inspired worship, works, wonder, wisdom.

Apricity, a seventeenth century coinage, is defined as the warmth of the Sun in winter. A felicitous word by all means, the moment it succeeds in capturing is felicity itself. Apricity is in nature one of the most benign manifestations of the Sun, a phenomenon of pure gentleness; in desolation, the first, touching glimmer of hope and glimpse of better things to come; in slumber, the event of awakening; in intellectual barrenness, the lambent glow of inspiration; and, of the most beautiful winter, divested of all negative associations, the crowning glory.

Apricity is an emotionally rich symbol for the power of ideas. It is the joy of inspiration and the promise of abundant activity. More, it is a fitting testament to the indomitable spirit and its limitless ingenuity. Join us at Apricity, the eighth edition of TEDxNITTrichy, as we explore the motive and emotive dimensions of the ideas that shape our world.

Barn Hall
National Institute of Technology , Tiruchirappalli
Tanjore Main Road
Tiruchirappalli, Tamil Nadu, 620015
India

Charanya Shekhar

Co-Founder, Tamarind Chutney

Sustainability, transparency and community - these are the values that Charanya Shekhar upholds with her sustainable fashion brand, Tamarind Chutney. Charanya, an alumna of the National Institute of Design, Gandhinagar is a textile, apparel and layout design enthusiast and has extensively worked with craft-related social enterprises. Join us as these school friends turned co-founders talk about ethically thriving in the sustainable fashion space.

Harish Srinivasan

Co-Founder, Infinite Engineers

Harish Srinivasan is a learning experience designer who aims to reimagine education by curating and popularising creative ways of hands-on-learning. As a Co-Founder of Infinite Engineers, he spearheads the movement of building makerspaces in schools across the country, where children express, refine and materialise their ideas, inducing a maker's mindset that inspires social change.

Mohesh Radhakrishnan

Academic Tutor and Mental Health Researcher

Mohesh Radhakrishnan, a resident of Trichy, is an Academic Tutor at Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington's School of Architecture in New Zealand. He is presently closely involved with mental health professionals from the National Institute of Mental Health and Neurosciences (NIHMANS) for his current research on developing his design framework to alleviate psychological problems and increase well-being for tertiary students. Mohesh shows great passion for art, architecture, psychology and teaching, where he takes pleasure in working with students and personally believes that students have so much to teach us back.

Nikita Lalwani

Cycling Mayor of Baroda

Nikita Lalwani is the Cycling Mayor of Baroda, striving to spread cycling as a sustainable mode of transport, while being a means of recreation. As the founder of the Crooze app, she's actively promoting the building of a community - wherein an individual sport, cycling can thrive.

Shobhit Nirwan

Educational Content Creator

Shobhit Nirwan is a well-established YouTuber in the ed-tech space and helps 10th, 11th and 12th-grade students in India by providing educational videos about their curriculum. In a market that already seemed saturated, Shobhit built his way from the ground up in the YouTube space and has grown manifolds in a matter of just a few years.

Tanvi Bikhchandani

Co-Founder, Tamarind Chutney

Sustainability, transparency and community - these are the values that Tanvi Bikhchandani upholds with their sustainable fashion brand, Tamarind Chutney. Tanvi, a graduate of the Stanford Business School, discovered her zeal for sustainability, social justice and entrepreneurship while exploring the livelihoods space.

Yeshoda Krishna

Associate Professor of Speech Sciences

Dr Krishna Yeshoda is an Associate Professor in Speech Sciences and the Head of the Department of Material Development at the All India Institute of Speech and Hearing (AIISH). Over the course of more than twenty years, she has researched various aspects of speech and voice - professional voice and its care, voice disorders, and speech production to name a few. Beatboxing and the "language" of honey bees are some of the intriguing subjects that one might find in her body of work. A proponent of vocal hygiene, she is the Chairperson of the Voice Clinic at AIISH. Besides her academic career, she has carried out forensic speaker verification and testified reports in law courts.