everyone for having me here. My name is Rasan and uh there are a lot of guiding principles that uh that guide my life and uh the first principle of course is uh that there's a very famous Sufi couplet that I often use and that says You know what it means. It means that it's just by luck and by chance that you have arrived at your destination.There was no role that you had to play in being born in a city as rich as ours. There was nothing that you did in order to be born to the parents that you were born to. ...

"The Next Door Cinderella" reimagines neuroplasticity through Cinderella's journey—roots of experience rewiring the brain to unlock transformative potential. Ms. Banerjee honors the teachers and mentors who, like fairy godparents, guided her growth from classrooms to stages and beyond. This talk fuses neuroscience, narrative, and gratitude for lasting impact. Rooted in Calcutta Girls’ High School, Suvasree’s journey began amid classrooms, music, and drama that taught her the power of stories. Mentors who be ...

Petrópolis, uma cidade conhecida. como coroa da realeza. Mas antes de ter coroa, aqui existia coroas de pena. Cocares, nossos líderes, nossas vozes, nossa identidade. Ainda somos povos, ainda falante de 285 línguas faladas. esperaram anos para dar voz a nós, os povos originários. Vocês têm orgulho de terenhar europeu, mas eu tenho orgulho de ser raiz. Tenho orgulho de dizer desse lugar. A terra para nós indígena nós chamamos de U. A terra ela é um ser vivo. Quando ela adoece nós adoecemos. Por muito tempo, ...

A última, a última onda chegou sorrateira, subiu a montanha, inundou a cidade costeira a última onda. A última onda, a última onda foi implacavelmente certeira ácido, de bateria, de automóvel, olho no olho do furacão. fralda, resto, químico, plástico, bomba nuclear, tudo que um dia afundou na água fria e se escondeu no mar, na onda mega simbólic.A última onda pode ser que seja concreta também. Bem no fundo subsolo do cenário, respira proprietário de um bunker de cristal. Último dos últimos, último dos trili ...

"Do we shape our buildings, or do they shape us? Drawing from two decades of design experience, Ar. Mitul Shukla explores the 'invisible' impact of architecture on human behavior. He reveals how elements like light, flow, and scale transform a mere structure into a liveable space that actively nurtures well-being." The future of Void and Mass Consulting Pvt. Ltd. began to take shape in 2003 when one of its principal architects, Mitul Shukla, joined the firms's office in Baroda. As a B.Arch student at The Ma ...

But today the theme is roots to wings. And when I first heard of it, I was like, what's better to talk about than Icarus and Greek mythology because that's so cool and everyone will love it. So I named my talk the conundrum of becoming Icarus. And I use two of my favorite words, conundrum and becoming.I seem to use it all the time. I don't know why. I'm just fascinated.But basically, what does roots do to wings even mean. So, I wrote this a while ago and I wrote it after watching a video on Osamu Desai's bo ...

“How to find your purpose as a teen and how to make it less tough” is a deep dive into the mind of a teen. How their difficulties can be overcome by willpower, exposure to constant challenge, and finding a path, with also a highlight of actually living life to its fullest and doing things teens have interest in to eventually, in the future, find their purpose. Cheero Roy is a Grade 10 student of Calcutta International School. He is passionate about physics, space and understanding the universe and constantl ...

The 'I' in my city encapsulates the ways in which Calcutta left its influence on Ms. Preeti Roychoudhury, especially as a woman. It is a tribute to the city she calls her home. Preeti Roychoudhury is the Head of the English Department and Curriculum Development at Calcutta International School, Kolkata, and a senior International Baccalaureate Diploma Programme faculty member with over 29 years of experience in education. She has co-authored English Language and Literature coursebooks with Harper Collins an ...

We're in this era of the internet where uh this is always surrounded by it and I don't blame anyone for not knowing what to do with it and this is just what I have done with it and um yeah I wrote a little turning negativity into productivity but that's also potential delusion right oh yeah about me. Um, I hesitate to talk about myself every time I'm on stage because I uh I'm about to sing songs that I've written about myself and I feel like that's too much on me already. But yeah, I'm a musician.Uh, which ...

At eight, Shambhavi left traditional school—a choice that gave her the freedom to truly be a child, baffling the society around her. But as she grew, a deeper question began to form: What if we reimagined education—not as a system of control, but as a space for awareness? This talk explores reimagining education and rethinking learning to recognize and respect individuality. Because education not only shapes what we do but also who we are. Shambhavi is an eleventh-grade student from Kolkata. After several y ...