In this segment, we look at business-themed documentaries, biopics, podcasts and TedTalks that are worth your time in the weekend.
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Post her schooling, Shetty brilliantly aces a scholarship to a varsity in Delhi, and that’s how her wings took shape. Being the first from her family to gain a college education and that too as a woman, was a matter of pride for Shetty who did not choose to rest on her laurels. She went back to her village and decided to start the non-profit the Bodhi Tree Foundation.
Having founded the organisation, she made it a point to pay it forward by getting students from impoverished families attain a proper education and thereby open up a whole new life stream for all of them. She says, “Finding my use has helped me to break free from the identities society thrusts on me -- poor village girl. Finding my use has helped me to break free from being boxed, caged and bottled. Finding my use has helped me to find my voice, my self-worth and my freedom.”
She ends her speech with these lines, saying, “I leave you with this thought: Where do you feel useful to this world? Because the answer to that question is where you will find your voice and your freedom.”
SYNOPSIS: Education advocate Ashweetha Shetty, born to a poor family in rural Tamil Nadu, didn’t let the social norms of her community stifle her dreams and silence her voice. In this personal talk, she shares how she found self-worth through education, and how she’s working to empower other rural youth to explore their potential
QUOTEWORTHY: All of us are born into a reality that we blindly accept, until something awakens us and a new world opens up
Every once in a while, you come across a speaker, who makes you re-examine everything you that take for granted in your life. Ashweetha Shetty, the founder of the NGO Bodhi Tree is one such speaker. The youngster, who had every possible hurdle stacked up against her is a picture of resilience and a testament to human ambition.
She begins her speech with the memory of a childhood incident that sparked her need to escape her village. Her mother, a daily wage labourer in a beedi making unit had one day asked her to read from her wage book and tell her how much she had earned that month. Shetty who noticed her mother’s thumb impression, knew her mother needed to be made literate. With great difficulty, she got her mother to sign her name and became determined to rise above her circumstances.
Post her schooling, Shetty brilliantly aces a scholarship to a varsity in Delhi, and that’s how her wings took shape. Being the first from her family to gain a college education and that too as a woman, was a matter of pride for Shetty who did not choose to rest on her laurels. She went back to her village and decided to start the non-profit the Bodhi Tree Foundation.
Having founded the organisation, she made it a point to pay it forward by getting students from impoverished families attain a proper education and thereby open up a whole new life stream for all of them. She says, “Finding my use has helped me to break free from the identities society thrusts on me -- poor village girl. Finding my use has helped me to break free from being boxed, caged and bottled. Finding my use has helped me to find my voice, my self-worth and my freedom.”
She ends her speech with these lines, saying, “I leave you with this thought: Where do you feel useful to this world? Because the answer to that question is where you will find your voice and your freedom.”
SOURCE:ted.com/speakers/ashweetha_shetty
SYNOPSIS: Education advocate Ashweetha Shetty, born to a poor family in rural Tamil Nadu, didn’t let the social norms of her community stifle her dreams and silence her voice. In this personal talk, she shares how she found self-worth through education, and how she’s working to empower other rural youth to explore their potential
QUOTEWORTHY: All of us are born into a reality that we blindly accept, until something awakens us and a new world opens up