Celebrities talk about tough road to success

RANCHI: SAIL auditorium in Ranchi was packed to capacity on Sunday when IIM-Ranchi students staged a localized version of global set of conferences TED Talk.
Titled Beyond Conformity under the third season of TEDx, the event brought together known faces from various fields under the same roof.
More than 500 people in the audience heard the best from different walks of life share their life changing experiences.Karnatik vocalist Vijaylakshmi Subramaniam spoke in the universal language of music. In no time the entire auditorium was singing a Sanskrit devotional song along with her. Bollywood actor Dia Mirza shared her fight against alcoholism and how she reinvented herself in the glamour world. "No challenge is tough if the determination is strong and in every weakness lies the strength," she said.
While politician Brinda Karat defined non-conformity as the reason which drives social change - an antithesis to the status quo that exists in our society, youngest CEO of his time Vineet Kumar spoke about rising threat of cyber war in the future.
Myshkin Ingawale, an electrical engineer from Maharashtra, came up with a novel idea of cheap biomedical equipment designed to bring down the cost of pathological diagnostics whereas Tulsi Avtar Tathagat of Patna shared his experience of coming under the limelight as a youngest physicist. Holding a Guinness Book of World Record for passing school finals at the age of nine and a PG degree at 14, Tathagat told how he had to fight legal battles to be able to appear for the examinations.
A well decorated stage with brilliant props like motorbikes and bicycles made of cane and rectangular hanging frames with an angel fixed in one of them added to the ascetic value. Perfect lighting arrangement and brilliant crowd management was what made the event world class.
In keeping with the standards of the speakers, Kavita, a first year student, enthralled all with her sand art show in which she depicted the story of Paramveer Albert Ekka's life.