Pilani, An Unforgettable Journey

Pilani, by its unique culture, lifestyle and values occupies a special place in any BITSian life. It leaves an undelible impression on shaping up the mindset and personality of a BITSian. Post Pilani also, Pilani continues to be a source of inpiration, a source of freindships and a source of values. It's a privilege and exciting experience for any BITSian to go back to the campus and get reminded of the place that has taught us what life is all about, to get reminded of the passions that we discovered in ourselves, the freindships that we built, finally the fun we had. I along with Chethan, Ravindar, Mohan were fortunate enough to experience one such trip to Pilani.

Rounds within the campus, interaction with the BITSians, discissions with Nirmaanites, meetings with profs, shikanji and khela rabdi at Redis, lacha session at ANC, fun session at Nuthan, Chai at IC took us back to good old Pilani days. All in all, it was a wonderful and refreshing trip.

School Building Inauguration at Akividu and Siddapuram

Education is the foundation for any society to progress and prosper. This is one program that's planned in that direction by Sagar in his home town in West Godavari with the help from Two cents of Hope. Following are few pics of the school buildings inauguration programs that I have attended at Akividu and Siddapuram villages of West Godavari.

In Akividu meeting, I spoke about how great people like Vishweraya, Ambedkar etc. have succeeded in life inspite of their challenging backgrounds and how they have contributed to the nation in their lifetime. I tried to fill inspiration in them by providing such examples that one can achieve great hieghts in one's life if one has a passion and if one works hard towards that passion.

In Siddapuram, I spoke about corruption, the root cause and some measures through which each one of us can participate in eradicating corruption. I also spoke how we as a nation are losing our uniqueness by ignoring and abusing our own culture and values and by blindly westernising ourselves. I said we as a Nation need to work on these two issues if we have to progress and prosper towards becoming a supreme power.

Gram Swaraj - Gandhiji's Path for Poorna Swaraj

This speech delivered at a conference on Rural Development at NIT Warangal is a small tribute to Mahatma's thought leadership. This speech is based on Gram Swaraj concept that he proposed for holistic development of villages along with some of my own experiences and observations. Please find the full text of the speech at the following link:

Youth empowered is India empowered

Following are the few snaps of “Dr.Abdul Kalam Gram Ratna Award” program that was conducted in August this year. Objective of the program was to recognize and encourage the rural talent by indentifying and felicitating at least two students from each village of Hasanparthy Mondal, Warangal District who perform exceptionally well either in their Class X / Intermediate / EAMCET / Polytechnic exam / BITSAT / AIEEE / any professional course/exam. Kakatiya University Vice Chancellor Prof Venkata Ratnam along with famous educationist have graced the occasions as guests for the program and presented the Gram Ratna awards to the best students of the villages. Several other local leaders attended the program along with Headmasters of around 20 different Govt and private schools and around 500 students. There were exceptional inspiring speeches by the guests present. Thanks to all who have supported this program.

Following 22 villages alonmg with 3 villages of other mondal have participated in the program: Ananthasagar, Arvepalli, Bhimaram, Bironpally, Chinthagattu, Devannapet, Gunturpally, Hasanparthy,Jaigiri, Komatipally, Madipalli, Mallareddypalli, Mucharla, Munipally, Nagaram, Pegadapally, Pembarthy, Seethampet, Seethanagaram, Siddapur, Sudanapally, Vangapahad and Yellapur.

Letter to The Prime Minister to arrest A Raja

Following are few snaps of Lok Satta's "Letter to Prime Minister" program thats organised in hanmakonda in Dec 10. The program was aimed at demanding prime minister to take action against the cuplrits in 2G spectrum scam. I have participated along with our team in the program on recieving a call from KodandaRama Rao, State Vice President of Lok Satta. Its a very successful program in terms of letting know the prime minister about the ground reality and in creating a public mood against corruption.

We Want a Corruption Free India

Following are few snaps of the anti corruption rally that's organised in Dec 10 in my village to create an awareness among people on corruption issue. Around 800 students and youth participated in 5 kms rally which continued for 2 hours. Children from age of 5 till youth and old aged participated in it and made it a huge success. This is a first hand experience for me in organising mass rallies.

A tribute to the inspirer

Inaugurating Vivekananda statue in my village is just a small tribute that I could offer for my inspiration Swami Vivekananda. It's swami vivekananda's life and his thoughts on several aspects of life which inspired to become what I am today. And like me there are numerous youth who are being continously inspired by Vivekananda's ideology. It's in Oct 10, we, a group of 10 youth came together and discussed the need for a Vivekananda statue in our village. And that's it. We planned and executed it with freinds support and cooperation from our village. The statue is inaugurated by an ardent follower of Vivekananda and the BJP State President Shri G Kishan Reddy Garu in the presence of several other dignitaries. Around 1200 members participated in the program and made it a huge success. Following are some of the snaps of the program: