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Pictures - SHANKARA and VARIJA LIFE celebrates VIHAAN 2016, A Kaleidoscope of Abilities

India 23 September 2016:

An evening was hosted by SHANKARA and VARIJA LIFE to celebrate VIHAAN 2016, A Kaleidoscope of Abilities. The event took place at Indo Islamic cultural centre.

VIHAAN 2016 is an initiative by VARIJA LIFE under Varija Bajaj and SHANKARA under Sujatha Narayannswami. India’s first Holistic festival which will focus on bringing together the diverse population, cultures and abilities together will be held on the 14th of December at IGNCA ( Indra Gandhi National Center for Arts ), supported by Ministry of Culture, Government of India.

The evening which took place in the presence of Guest of Honour Dr. Swaroop Rawal, Actress and Educationist, saw her speaking on enrichment and empowerment of 'Persons with Disabilities' which is one of the key elements into making a society INCLUSIVE and successful as it taps into all its potentials and brings out the best. The first step towards achieving this is AWARENESS and EQUAL OPPORTUNITIES.

Educationist and Actress Swaroop Rawal with Host Varija Bajaj (2)-

Host Sujatha Narayanswami

Host Varija Bajaj-

Judges Model Amanpreet Wahi and Liza Verma

Participant at VIHAAN 2016

Rajeshwari Thyagrajan with Host Sujatha Narayanswami-

Sonal Jindal

Special Children performing at VIHAAN 2016

Varija Bajaj,Rakhee Bakshi,Swaroop Rawal,Sujatha Narayanswami

Varija Bajaj and Sujatha Narayannswami spokesperson for VIHAAN 2016 Says “We look at VIHAAN as a face of changer for Persons with Disabilities, a medium of leading a dignified life. We had invited children with special needs (CWSN) such as ASD, ADHD,Down syndrome and intellectual deficits also physically challenged or visually/hearing impaired to actively participate in the contests and make it a grand celebration. Some of the categories were Singing, Dancing, Miming, Music and Modelling. We have selected 5 from each group except the modelling wherein we have selected 30 special children.VIHAAN wants the world to see the abilities and not disabilities of these children.The selection was made out of around 1500 special children in the presence of renowned model Amanpreet Wahi , Choreographer Liza Varma and others. “

“We have on our advisory board Dr.Swaroop Rawal(Actress and Educationist) Padmashri Dr Uma Tuli (Founder Director Amarjyoti), Padmashri Shri V R Gowrishankar(CEO Sringeri Sharda Peetham)and Mr.Sandeep Marwah(Founder Marwah Studio and Noida Film City) to guide us with their vast experience in Education and Social sector” adds Sujatha Narayannswami.

The other highlights for the holistic festival were

Life Animated, a Hollywood documentary on Autism by Academy Award Winning Director by Roger Ross Williams will be screened first time in India during the festival. Winning several awards in San Francisco International Film Festival, Sundance and Full Frame Film Festival, the film will now be a part of the biggest revolution India has ever seen for inclusion of those who fight to prove their abilities over disabilities.

Under VIHAAN OORJA– Various competitions for the youth will be held focusing on creating awareness on the different abilities, developing aids and support systems to help the Disabled bloom and perform to the best of their capabilities. The competitions include Photography, Film-making, Share your story, Garment Designing, Footwear designing, Product design (Learning Systems,aids and appliances)

Under VIHAAN UTKAANSH –Competitions like Singing, Dancing, Instrumental Music, Miming and Modelling will be held specifically for persons with disabilities

Under VIHAAN ABHIGYA-a series of pre events/ panel discussions are scheduled in various colleges across the country by eminent experts to sensitize the youth towards the needs of the differently-abled.

INK Conference 2016 successfully completes its 7th edition

•Some of the greatest minds from varied businesses shared life-changing ideas at the INK Conference
•INK Live ignited hundreds of young minds through workshops with thought leaders and live webcast of the conference

New Delhi September 18th 2016: The much-awaited annual INK conference successfully concluded its 7th edition today at the Grand Hyatt in Goa. The conference hosted some of the leading national and international names across various genres. Speakers included CEOs, entrepreneurs, artists, technologists, scientists and visionaries from across the globe. Three days saw inspired and inspiring narration of ideas, achievements and innovation with the evenings providing the perfect opportunity for people to network, exchange notes and interact.

Kaleidoscope – the theme for this year saw a fusion of exponential conversations. Nine themed sessions - Yellow Brick Road, Pink of Health, Green Arrow, Silver Lining, Red Spark, Grey Matter, Golden Age, Chasing Rainbows and White Collective kept audiences enthralled. Topics across disciplines included creativity, health, science, invention, robotics and energy by some of the best minds in their respective businesses.

Speaking on the occasion Lakshmi Pratury Host and CEO INK Talks said, "We are delighted to present our annual conference in Goa this year. Every conference renews our belief that the work we do at INK to provide a platform for current and future game changers is essential to true transformation. We are grateful to all the speakers and INK Fellows for being a part of this year’s conference by sharing insights and advice. We are humbled at being able to repay them with the opportunity to further grow their already fabulous minds through this experience.”

Below is a list of speakers who took the stage at INK 2016.

Speakers	Designations
Abhijit Bose	Co-Founder & CEO Ezetap
Adam Sadowsky	Creative Director & Founder Syyn Labs
Amitabh Kant	CEO Niti Aayog
Ananth Menon	Musician
Anil Menon	Global President Smart+Connected Communities CISCO
Anubhav Gupta	Chief Design officer Godrej Properties
Bala Deshpande	Senior Managing Director New Enterprise Associated India
Brock Pierce	Chair Bitcoin Foundation
Christopher Kirchhoff	Lead Defense Innivation unit X
Crystal Rose	Co-Founder Sensay
CJ Meadows	Director Innovations & Insights Center SP Jain School of Global management
Dale Fox	Co-Founder & CEO Tribogenics
Dali and Finn	Co-Founders Nalu
David Rowan	Editor WIRED UK Magazine
Gavin Wood	Co-Founder Ethecore
Gaurav Hinduja	Co-Founder & Managing Director Capital Float
Gouri Mirpuri	Founder Connected for Good
Heather Blair	Feminist
Jesko von den Steinen	Senior Advisor Brand Identity at the Venetian Macao Resort
Jill Sobule	Singer- writer
Kalyan Varma	Wildlife photographer
Kenneth Lacovara	Paleontologist
Kumar Mahadevan	Chef Media personality
Kunal Shah	Founder and Chairman Freecharge
Luis Dias	Founder of Child’s Paly Foundation
Madan Padaki	Co-Founder & CEO Rubanbridge
Meenakshi Vijayraghavan	Kalaripayattu professional
Narayana Peesapaty	Founder Baykeys food
Ravi Venkatesan	Chairman Bank of Baroda
Ricky Kej	Composer & Conservationist
Ritesh Agarwal	Founder & CEO OYO
Rohini Nilekani	Founder- Chairperson Arghyam
Sanjeev Bikhchandani	Founder and Chairman Naukri.com
Shradha Sharma	Founder and CEO Yourstoy
Sonia Shirsat	Singer
Subodh Kerkar	Artist
Sunil Rao	Strategic partnerships development Google India
Sunitha Krishnan	Anti-trafficking crusader
Swetha Suresh	Singer whistler classical dancer
Thomas John Muthoot	Chairman Muthoot Pappachan group
Vikas Bahl	Filmmaker.

Our 2016 Fellows also took the stage, speaking across a variety of topics. Aditi Gupta (Entrepreneur), Akshay Nanavati (BlueSky), Anshul Tewari (Social), Avinash Saurabh (Health), Chandan Gomes (Art), Dheeraj Roy (Research), Ere Gowda (Film), Haleem Khan (Dancer), Harshit Agarwal (Tech), Kalyani Khona (Entrepreneur), Kenta Koga (Education), Jennifer Farah Broutin (Food Technology), Keshav Reddy (Entrepreneur), Laura Kriefman (Art), Mahesh Jadav (Social), Neha Bagaria (Entrepreneur), Nirali Kartik (Music), Pallavi Gupta (Social), Pavan Kumar (Tech), Prasenjeet Yadav (Photography), Pratik Shah (Tech), Sameer Seth (Entrepreneur), Sandhya Goli (Sport), Sarvesh Shashi (Health), Sattvik Mishra (Entrepreneur), Shannon Olsson (Science), Suranga Nanayakarra (Research) and Veerappan Swaminathan (Social).

About INK
INK is India’s foremost platform for the exchange of cutting-edge ideas and inspiring stories. Known for the annual INK Conference INK Asia INK Salons and programs such as INK Fellows we are a community that accelerates the journeys of game changers.

INK Conference
The INK Conference is an annual celebration of thinkers and doers from diverse walks of life. World’s visionaries – CEOs entrepreneurs artists technologists scientists & more – gather under one roof for a cross-pollination of ideas and chance encounters for the next big breakthrough. Game changers from every walk of life share their stories ideas and perspectives in between 3-18 minutes – an intellectual ‘Mardi Gras’ if you like.

A Kaleidoscope of breakthrough ideas - INK announces INK Conference 2016

The conference will bring together the brightest minds from across the globe to inspire innovation.

Chandigarh, July 27, 2016: The INK Conference has, over the years, carved a niche for itself and made its way on to the must-attend list in highly sought after calendars. This year is no different. This is a conference where there the audience are as powerful as the speakers and each of them is curated with utmost care. More than 500 influential thought leaders, artists and innovators from around the world will come together to share their stories, thought provoking ideas and life changing insights.

The theme at INK2016, is Kaleidoscope. It lends itself to the fusion of exponential conversations that will take place at the conference, to the multitude of cultures that will come together as well as the splendor Goa has to offer.

Surrounded by unexpected, striking combinations of aspiration across disciplines like creativity, health, science, invention, robotics, and energy, one has the opportunity to turn their imagination to impact.

Like the seemingly fragmented pieces of a Kaleidoscope that symmetrically come together to create a unique visual treat, this year’s conference unifies a multitude of thoughts and ideas, to create something beautiful - something unique.

The 7th edition of the conference will be held at the Grand Hyatt, Goa from 16th – 18th September. An incredible line-up of speakers will share insights on topics ranging from innovations in education to health to technology and the arts. Notable speakers at this year’s conference include entrepreneur and Chairman of the Bitcoin Foundation Brock Pierce; distinguished educator and producer of Mythbusters’ Adam Savage; venture philanthropist and former Chairman of Microsoft India Ravi Venkatesan, American paleontologist and geologist Kenneth Lacovara singer and songwriter Jill Sobule, and a host of other gifted individuals. The game changers attending the conference will also have an opportunity to network post-event amongst one another.

Commenting on this year’s theme, Lakshmi Pratury, Host and Curator of the INK Conference, said “INK shares a lot in common with the kaleidoscope. When unchecked imagination meets creative ability, the output is what causes future innovation. I believe in the sheer magic that this diverse set of INK community creates year after year, writing our future together. It is always refreshing that just like the Kaleidoscope, every person who is part of the conference comes with a unique talent and leaves creating collective impact reshaping the world as we know it.”

For the fifth year running, INK will expand the INK experience to students and young professionals. INK is partnering with Goa Institute of Management to gather over 500 young people to participate in a variety of workshops and interactive experiences while they watch a live stream of the INK Conference. Many of the esteemed attendees and speakers from the conference will join the youth in person to share their perspectives.

You can register for the INK Conference on http://inktalks.com/conferences/ink2016/register and INK Live on http://inktalks.com/conferences/inklive2016/register

About INK

INK is India’s foremost platform for the exchange of cutting-edge ideas and inspiring stories. Known for the annual INK Conference, INK Asia, INK Salons, and programs such as INK Fellows, we are a community that accelerates the journeys of game changers.

INK Conference

The INK Conference is our annual celebration of thinkers and doers from diverse walks of life.

World’s visionaries – CEOs, entrepreneurs, artists, technologists, scientists & more – gather under one roof for a cross-pollination of ideas and chance encounters for the next big breakthrough. Game changers from every walk of life share their stories, ideas and perspectives in between 3-18 minutes – an intellectual ‘Mardi Gras’ if you like.

Kaleidoscope- A Spectacle of Forms & Elements

India 20 July 2016: For the love of art and creativity the owners of VeVa Art (Malavika Gaur) and Visual Impact (Sanchita Ghosh) have come together to present the unique combination of diverse art forms and offer viewers with an open window to understand the power of Indian contemporary art. The exhibition on “FORMS AND ELEMENTS” have already caught the eyes of many art lovers in metropolitan cities and was admired and acknowledged and is back in capital to present these masterpieces which is to be held at the Indian Habitat Center on 22nd, 23rd and 24th of July this year.

The exhibit will present works of around 30 eminent artists from all over India and about 80 artworks that would include paintings, sculptures and serigraphs. The price of art works is ranged at Rs 25,000/- till Rs 1,25,000/-.

“People often complain that contemporary artworks are expensive. So we decided to come up with this exhibition where ordinary people will be able to buy paintings by notable artists. Also this exhibition will offer viewers an opportunity to understand the power of Indian contemporary art” said – Malavika Gaur, of VeVa Art.

The duo has expertise in curating original art work by artists all over India and showcases them to the audiences who understand and value art. Variety of visual delights are kept keeping in mind the distinct taste of every art enthusiast. The affordable art on display are believed to be an ideal investment and can turn your personal space in to your favorite place.

Another attraction of the show will be the serigraphs. Serigraphy is a process through which printed design are produced by means of silk screen. The original prints are produced and hand printed by the artists.

The participating artists though share the same level of compassion towards art but their approach, thoughts and perception towards life vary a lot. One of the eminent participating artist Wasim Kapoor, is an artist possessed by the dark emotions of pain, suppression, suffering and loneliness. All his subjects, whether simple Indian women involved in daily tasks, Jesus Christ or even the ubiquitous Kolkata rickshaws, reflect angst and torment at the hands of a cruel society. Kapoor says that the poignant and melancholic images he paints are simply expressions of what he feels and sees every day. For him the dark images narrate the truth of our society. In contrast to that artist Aditya Basak have always played with his imagination power and gives a joy ride to a fantasy world. He has a fascination towards fantasies which can be seen in his art that let viewers escape from the real world. He strives to give form to the harsh realities of life and the strange thoughts that lurk in the corners of the subconscious, and both give his paintings a disturbing but hauntingly beautiful quality.

Renowned artist Jayashree Chakravarty on the other hand uses superimposed forms, quite like the sketches that cave painters worked on before they mapped them on the walls of caves. Her imagery, because of her fluid and transparent images, reflect the present mood of the world, which is fluid in itself. Her varied academic background has shaped her unique aesthetic style that often conceals as much as it reveals. Her work reflects the unity of man with nature and boldly experiments with an exciting variety of media like rice paper, tissue and cellophane to out in her thoughts. Artist Manish Pushkale works on oil canvas with minimum intervention of brush to give the canvas a thin color bath. His entire work process is worked out by the use of a piece of fabric acting as sponge to absorb extra pigment and give a smooth texture. A subdued color palette gives a calm character to his works. However, on a closer examination, the motifs and symbols in his art come to light, giving it different meanings. Subtle brush strokes and shading create multi-layered meaning which let the onlooker to apprehend it in any direction they wish to.

Other participating artists include Somenath Maity, Laxman Aely, Shekhar Roy, Shipra Bhattacharya, Shuchi Khanna, Suhas Roy, Shuvaprasanna & many more.

Venue: Visual Art Gallery, Indian Habitat Center, Lodhi Road, New Delhi, Delhi 110003

From: 22nd, 23rd and 24th July 2016 (11am till 7pm)