I think I have attended the TED conference primarily to write as I explained in the previous post...omg!!!.. how melodramatic is that? jokes apart. but I think what happened on Friday at Bluefrog (Club members having problems with Lakshmi and TEDxMumbai entirely walking off) actually showed us mirrors...
However hard we may canvas ourselves as mighty billion ones riding with new vision, new outlook breaking barriers and creating new frontiers some pockets of dirt keep hitting back...They are like those litters of bus/train ticket that remain in our pockets and come out really messy after laundry wash.. they spoil the entire fabric, because the particles have actually become a part of the fabric...
The ticket here are these transgender, caste, sex, religion, taboo issues that are used by men of authority to drive to their destinations and have forgotten to clean-up once they reached their destinations. The tickets remain in the social fabric and turn out ugly and dirty and there is nobody to clean up the mess. This seriously needs correction.
I personally feel if nobody can control the cross-over of genes and the XY patterns, then in no lands law should someone be permitted to segregate people into groups...Having said this I'll leave you to think issues and talk about them more often and more openly ..I'll get back to the final session which was really a nice one
Session: Urbanscapes:- idea is to present the fringes of the city and her social fabric with which she may look not so correct, without which will definitely look incomplete.
Zubin Pastakia presented his work The Cinemas Project which is a case on Mumbai's Single screens in pictures. I dont have that artistic nose to judge and gauge the interpretations that he was explaining. You can check them all for your self.
Lakshmi Tripathy ,.. I have on purpose linked it to the google search results... so that each one of us reads through every article that appears on Lakshmi on this first page..and reverberate and reiterate and remind us of how hypocrite we're and imagine how many Lakshmis have been shunted as weeds in our contexted and frameworked society. She..(yes sir, she.. ) spoke about her journey and the problems that she faced.. i shuddered at the thought of just thinking about her problems.....she went through them.. It was a great experience that I'll carry for as long as I live.
I wont be wrong if I call these guys 'Outliers', Mathias and Rahul coz they are so diverse from different backgrounds, ethnicities and yet connected to urban landscape in mumbai...It is just amazing how a city, and a cause can bring people together...They spoke about their work at Dharavi and how they primarily work across countries and described briefly what a slum actually means and highlighted that the so called slums in mumbai are more like villages and are very organised in themselves...
The last talk was a performance by Cara Escott.. ..listen to this...i dont understand much .. but was very nice..
To sum it up.. I met some really smart people.. and I connected with some..Some of them are going to... oh.. i want all of them.. to be with me...because there is a different joy in being amongst really smart people things which can never be explained or felt in mediocrity..
TEDxMumbai was great!!! thanks all... netra especially who thought I was fit for attending
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