Thursday, January 27, 2011

The Punjabi King !!!

The member of parliament but also a poet “VISHVJIT SINGH” who writes meaningful poems on the golden times of Aurangzeb and other kings taught the members some daring spirit. “Do not avoid taking risks as from every failure comes eventual success”. Failures are part and parcel of everyone’s life but accepting them in a positive way is what Mr. Singh wanted to say to our members.

Monday, January 24, 2011

Translator of Chandrakanta


Then, we met Prasoon Joshi, the famous lyricist, screen writer and advertising copywriter it added colours to our visit to JLF. He was applauded for his translation work of Chandrakanta. He raised the issue of Hindi being neglected these days and asked to respect the language.

Sunday, January 23, 2011

Let's talk some business




As he has spent most of his career in the investment business it explains the part of him being so much experienced. The students had the news that LIAQUAT AHAMED author of “lord of finance” will be coming in the festival so they were willing to meet him. It was sort of expected what will happen in conversation with him, the students in the end got tired pinning down things as there was a long list. There is a small conclusion of what he said “Entrepreneurship always brings out the best in an individual, the passion, drive and spirit is unparalleled, every ambitious person should develop a streak of entrepreneurship in themselves to become a better professional and enhance their personal wealth”.

The Philosopher and the writer


“Starting on the journey of being an entrepreneur needs will power and energy both.Young people have it in ample. So good luck !! ” .The famous writer of India Unbound GURCHARAN DAS, a person who took early retirement from his work because he had a true desire for writing inspired the audience by saying these impressive lines. The members were then feeling proud, full of energy and power, as their queue of inspiration was added with one more personality.

Saturday, January 22, 2011

AFGANISTHAN : Stop using it as a Laboratory

A very knowledgeable discussion was held on 'AfPak' between Ahmed Rashid, Atiq Rahimi, Jayant Prasad, Jon Lee Anderson,Rory Stewart, William Dalrymple in conversation with Barkha Dutt. Inspite of unparalleled success, they all have their heads fixed firmly on their shoulders. E-members learnt that this is the key attribute of an entrepreneur. Barkha Dutt ended the discussion by urging every government to stop using Afghanistan as a laboratory to experiment their strategies against terrorism

Friday, January 21, 2011

GLOBAL VIEW ON ENTREPRENEURS




In the JLF held from 21st January to 25th January E-members of TOPAZ interacted with sundry people conversant about entrepreneurship especially people from different countries. Various personalities like Miss Catherine from U.K., Mr. Dieun Yang from China, Mrs. Salma Ahmed from Pakistan etc. gave us the suggestions to become an entrepreneur. They suggested that don't climb the bandwagon i.e. don't follow or copy the ideas that are already prevailing in the market , create your own ideas, be innovative.You should charter your own course rather than follow a beaten path and it is not necessary that well beaten path always make the right road. So creative, new unbeaten ideas are the need of the hour of the world for the successful entrepreneur.

Jaipur Literature Festival 2011

The Jaipur's most renowned festival for which almost every learned person tries to snatch out some time from his busy schedule i.e. Jaipur Literature Festival marked the beginning of pre E - week campaigning for TOPAZ. It is a festival which is beyond the boundaries that are drawn on the map of the world as people irrespective of their origin involves in it. TOPAZ members decided to attend the sessions of the festival to get new ideas from great people who have come from various parts of the world.

Wednesday, January 19, 2011

Meeting 2 for pre - E - Week campaigning

The meeting started with the discussion of Jaipur Literature Festival, pre-week campaignin.List of Jaipur schools was made and atleast 25 schools were selected among them to contact for the pre-E-week campaigning comprising of a fifty-rupee venture event. Posters for different sessions and events were designed.

Tuesday, January 18, 2011

Meeting 1 for pre E - Week campaigning

The work for the upcoming E-Week started today with a brief discussion on poster making (including poster on signature campaigning, hand stamp ,promotional and theme) was done followed by the sketching of signature campaigning . All the pre-E-week campaigning was discussed and plans for it were made. The project work was discussed among the members and students were made in charge of that. All students were supposed to write a brief report on daily activities being carried out in the cell.The session ended with a handfull of work on poster making and with a learning to work in a team and generate new ideas.

Monday, January 17, 2011

Meeting in the Boys Hostel over a cup of coffee

A team of fifteen E-members met in room no. 414, boys hostel on 17th Jan over a cup of coffee. They started their discussion with the samples of the last year’s work done. Soon, their meeting was halted because of the attendance in charge who didn’t allowed a group of students in one room at 9:00pm. Oh! This rule of SKIT hostel…never let guys to enjoy- hahaha !!!. Well, The meeting was dispersed for that moment but was later continued which finally concluded by assigning tasks to each other.

Sunday, December 12, 2010

Last Day of Wave - Video Lecture Series

So, after so many case studies and videos it was the time to end the video lecture series and it was no better to end it with the Seven Domains of Entrepreneurship by John Mullins. Students got an opportunity to know the difference between markets and industries.They got to know about the Macro - level and Micro - level assessment of market. The session was conducted by Mr. Vineet Jain. In the end the students were asked to write their feedbacks for the sessions conducted.

Friday, December 10, 2010

Session on Opportunity Evaluation

A session on opportunity evaluation to let the students know the importance of grabbing an apportunity and then evaluating it to its fullest level. Students came to know that "opportunites are not given they are to be snatched".

Activity of Mind Mapping.

An activity was conducted to let the students know how to know map mind others. They were divided into groups of two and were given 5 minutes to know each other and then next 1 minute to write whatever they came to know about each other on a piece of paper. This let them know what and who each student is.

VIDEO BY NANDAN NILEKANI

Video which showed the importance of “opportunity evaluation” was shown to the students. In the video Mr. Nandan Nilekai shares his views about how India is a land of opportunities and proper evaluation can lead to vast growth. He focused that in the past the need was “Roti, Kapda and Makaan” but now the need has shifted to “Bijli, Sadak and Pani”. India is the youngest country in the world and if they can be changed in their perceptive and made aware of the opportunities they can take India to the strongest position in the world. He focused that there are many Ideas in progress, Ideas in Conflict, and under anticipation.

Thursday, December 9, 2010

Case Study of MacDonald's

How Mac and Dic used their idea of junk food chain store to a world level and were able to make make a lot of money out of it was depicted from the case study. It showed that an idea can change your life.

IDEA GENERATION


The session was designed for the theme “Idea Generation”. It was necessary to start the session with some inspiration.So a video which motivated the students to believe in their thoughts was shown that ended with the tag line- “IF YOU STAND FOR WHAT YOU BELIEVE IN YOU CAN CHANGE THE WORLD”.

VIDEO BY DAVID HODGMAN

A video by David Hodgman based on the theme importance on an “Idea” was shown. It showed how even a scrap idea of an alien character can make a person a multi-billionare. “AN IDEA CAN CHANGE YOUR LIFE” .So, think of an idea, dream of it, live for it, and make their idea your life

Its the time of activity


An activity was conducted by the E-leaders with the aim of knowing how innovative the students are. They were divided into groups and were asked to write different business ideas on a sheet of paper and a lot came out of them-

1. SpaceCraft Academy

2. Telepathy Device (Satellite Communication)

3. Councelling/consultancy

4. Food communication line

5. Halwa store(Name- Maa ka Halwa)

6. Website where customers design their own clothes and get that type in 5 days of delivery time.

7. Garden for students.

8. Greeting’s Gallery.

Wednesday, December 8, 2010

WHAT IS NGO

A non-governmental organization (NGO) is basically a legally constituted organization which is operated by legal persons who act independently from any government. The term is used for those organizations which have wider social target with political aspects. However, any NGO cannot be blatantly political organizations. The term “non-governmental organization” has no agreed legal definition and these are termed as “civil society organizations” in many jurisdictions.

VIDEO BY KIRAN BIR SETHI

The third day of the video lecture series begun with the video of Kiran Bir Sethi, theme of each was “Empowerment Of Chirldren” through the key words YOU CAN. It focused that- children go through the journey of – aware (can see the change), enable (be changed) and empower(lead the change) which increase their well being). It showed Aware means Feel, Enable means Imagine & Empower means Do.
The main focused word was contagious-likely to affect others.


As the purpose was to explore the theme-“building an NGO”, the video really motivated students to be a part of NGO.