Theme: Reflections & Road Ahead : India@75

India is presently celebrating 75 years of Independence. #TEDxMountAbuSchool is a tribute to India's Azaadi ka Amrut Mahotsav.

MOUNT ABU PUBLIC SCHOOL
SECTOR 5 ROHINI
DELHI, Delhi, 110085
India

Aakanksha Arora

Deputy Director, Department of Economic Affairs, Ministry of Finance , Govt. of India

She is from Indian Economic Service, 2013 batch. She has been working in Department of Economic Affairs, Ministry of Finance from December 2014 till date and has handled Macro Unit, Monetary Management & Banking Unit. She has been working closely with Chief Economic Adviser and Principal Economic Adviser on Economic Surveys from 2014-15 to 2021-22 and on various economic policy issues for the government. She represented India in the exchange programme between Indian Economic Service and UK’s Economic Service in 2018, where she worked with Office of Budget Responsibility (OBR) of UK. She assisted Dr Arvind Subramanian, the then Chief Economic Adviser to Govt of India on the committee on “Report on the Revenue Neutral Rate and Structure of Rates for the Goods and Services Tax (GST)”. Before joining Indian Economic Service, she was working as an Assistant Professor in Shri Ram College of Commerce, Delhi University from July 2012 to May 2013.

Anupama Hoskere

Director, Dhaatu Puppet Theater

Anupama Hoskere is a master puppeteer and the Founder-Director of the Dhaatu Puppet Theater, Bengaluru, India. She is the recipient of the prestigious Sangeet Natak Akademi Puraskar, the highest Indian recognition given to practicing artists. She has wide experience in every facet of the composite art form of puppetry. A careful and detailed study of the Natyashastra provided Anupama much impetus to expand the intricacies and intellectual merit of her productions. Anupama received the Senior Research Fellowship from the Ministry of Culture which gave her an opportunity to redesign the old puppet theater into a more complex layered theater - combining dance, theater and puppetry into one Broadway scale performance of about 80 minutes. Anupama is also the Festival Director of the Dhaatu International Puppet Festival – an annual festival in Bengaluru.

Atharva Arora

Student, Mount Abu Public School

Atharva Arora is a 5 years young student of Mount Abu Public School. His interests are skating , playing with Toys specially cars and tracks, Lego blocks and doing science experiments. He loves to eat Rajma Chawal, Pizza and French Fries His favorite cars are Porche , Audi , BMW and Mercedes He loves wearing Jeans and T shirt. He is a climate warrior and also participated in kindness act in which he helped a pigeon make his nest and lay eggs on terrace of our house.

Berty Thomas

Founder, Under45 vaccination alerts

Bachelors in Engineering in Trivandrum, Kerala. He worked at Oracle for two years in Bangalore and pursued MBA in TAPMI, Manipal.He was employed in technology division of large international banks including the Bank of New York Mellon, Barclays. He continued to develop projects as a hobby even in between these day jobs and created a tool that can predict airfare movements in India. Worked on several Internet of Things (IoT) projects and created an online version of the game Monopoly to play with friends during the Covid lockdown. And during the second wave, went on to develop the vaccination alerts project which helped millions of people get vaccinated faster.

Dawn Taylor

Academic Consultant, Mount Abu Public School

Dawn Taylor is an International Education Consultant and has over 20 years of experience in the field of education. She is currently working with over 19 schools in India to build a vision for their future and drive forward school improvement. Her vision and focus on scalability and workable solutions aim to start preparing over 30,000 students this year with the skills they require for life. She is leading over 1,000 teachers in a skills-based revolution within our classrooms, a revolution that is prioritising the teaching of 21st century skills. She has trained over 13,000 students in India alone on the development of metacognitive skills: inspiring and activating an army of independent, self-assured learners.

Dr Chintan Vaishnav

Mission Director, Atal Innovation Mission

Dr. Chintan Vaishnav is a socio-technologist, an engineer trained to design and build large-scale systems that possess both human as well as technological complexities. Presently, he serves as the Mission Director for Atal Innovation Mission (AIM), a flagship initiative of the government of India under the auspices of the NITI Aayog. Chintan is on leave from Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) for his present assignment. As a teacher, innovator, and entrepreneur, he has split his time between teaching and research and living and working with rural communities to build solutions that can overcome constraints fundamental to improving human conditions.

Major Pawan Kumar

Shaurya Chakra Awardee

Major Pawan Kumar is an Arts graduate (hindi medium). He got commissioned on 19 sept 2009 (16 batallion The Jat Regiment) Belongs to churu, Rajasthan. His parents were into Farming. His interests are- running, cycling, cooking and poetry He won Army Adventure challenge cup (Triathlon - uphill running, mountain cycling and white water rafting) in 2011-12 along with 21 para sf. He served for one year in Congo, United Nations peace keeping mission. (awarded force Commander citation for exemplary service) He was Awarded Shaurya Chakra by President of India- 19 Mar 2019 fir his Operation Shivaji (34 Rashtriya Rifles) - 26 sept 2017. He took release from army after serving 10 years due to some personal reasons.

Mangala Mani

Scientist/Engineer 'SG' (Retd)

Mangala Mani from the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO), is the first woman scientist to spend 403 days in Antarctica and the only woman in this all-male team. She was a part of a 23-member expedition team. The 56-years old Mani operated and maintained the ground station where 10 of 14 orbits would be visible at Bharathi. She is the first ISRO female scientist to spend more than a year in Antarctica. Her role at Bharathi was to operate and maintain the ground station where 10 of 14 orbits would be visible, unlike in India where only 2 or 3 orbits would be visible.

Raj Kumar Bhatia

Co-Founder Roti Bank

An innovative agriculturist and trader by profession, Mr Raj Kumar Bhatia is a well-known socio political figure in Delhi INDIA .Presently serving as the district president at Keshavpuram in Delhi for one of the world's largest political parties, Raj Kumar Bhatia is fondly known for his social initiative ‘Roti Bank’ , an effort that aims to provide a square meal to the needy and eradicate hunger from the society. Mr Raj Kumar Bhatia firmly believes in individual responsibility towards the betterment of society through simple yet effective ideas and actions.

Shankar Singh

Founder, Vrikshit Foundation

Shankar singh Living with the ideology of “weekdays for job, weekends for the country”, Shankar has been able to inspire many friends, friends of friends and other youngsters to step forward and join the revolution, which has resulted in Vrikshit becoming a family of over 3000 individuals, spread throughout the country with the means of 30 teams across different cities. Currently, Shankar is continuously forging to make sustainable development a part of every Indian household. He started Vrikshit with an aim for a cleaner and greener Delhi. His aim was not only to conduct plantation drives but to get rid of the litter and bridge the sanitation gap.