As an Indian, and now as a politician and a government minister, I've become rather concerned about the hype we're hearing about our own country, all this talk about India becoming a world leader, even the next superpower. In fact, the Amer...
In 1947, the British viceroy announced that after 200 years of British rule, India would gain independence and be partitioned into Hindu India and Muslim Pakistan. What followed was one of the largest and bloodiest forced migrations in history: an estimated 1 million people los...
So today, I'm not going to talk about poor people. I'm going to talk only about the middle and upper classes, because we are the ones most in denial. We are the ones who have said over and over again that when wo...
1.Let me talk about India through the evolution of ideas. 下面我来介绍一下印度 以及印度人们观念的演变 2.Now I believe this is an interesting way of looking at it because in every society, especially an open democratic society, its only when ideas take root that things change. 我觉得这是...
TED Talks India • December 2017 Read transcript 常聽到有人說:「你懂我的意思嗎?」這句話。傳奇詩人、作詞家兼劇作家賈維阿克塔問:「為什麼我們好像失去了用字遣詞的力量?」他鼓勵我們要用字詞──這近乎魔法般的工具──帶著我們的文化跨越世代,來彼此了解和溝通。
And then I thought no, no. I should just get up there and be myself and just talk the way I really talk because, after all, this is the great unveiling. And so I thought I'd come up here and unveil my real voice to you. Although many of you already know that I do speak the...
letter to her attacker in a student newspaper that went viral and sparked the #NotGuilty campaign against sexual violence and victim-blaming. In this moving talk, she describes how sharing her personal story gave hope to others and delivers a powerful message against the culture of online ...
I just -- I'm sorry. I'm just trying not to be nervous because this is a very wonderful experience for me and everything. And I just -- you know I'm not used to doing public speaking. And whenever I get nervous I start to talk really fast. Nobody can understand nothing I'm ...
In India (and many other countries), girls and women still find themselves silenced by traditional rules of politeness and restraint, says social scientist Deepa Narayan. In this frank talk, she identifies seven deeply entrenched norms that reinforce inequality -- and calls on men to help usher ...
(Part 2)"In this poignant, funny follow-up to his fabled 2006 talk, Sir Ken Robinson makes ...