Designing by keeping the Nature at the Centre-My Commencement Speech to Graduates of MIT Institute of Design-Watch
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I was delivering the address as Chief Guest to fresh graduates at 9th Convocation Ceremony at sprawling campus at Raj Baug near Pune, a city in India known for excellence in education. I continued to build on that theme by stating that nature is the designer itself- a designer par excellence. It uses resources optimally while creating designs.
My friend Ram Subramaniam watched my speech recently and said.” This nature-human links message will never br forgotten these students will carry on their minds for a long time. The reverence for Indian culture at MIT Institute of Design is obvious and Institute has done a good job of bringing up the students with both science and spiritual values. Your presence there was a bonus for the students”. I was flattered because Ram is USA based ‘Bay area’ stalwart engaged in mentoring start-ups with modern technology and teaching at Stanford. A message of ancient Indian teaching coming from him, was special. He continued , “In several of my classes, I discuss Bhagavad Gita and other Indian literature and insist the importance of how self-respect comes from respecting nature and our culture. I opine that if we as Indians don’t respect and adopt to nature and our culture fully, we can’t succeed in life.”. He said all. Rajendra Shende
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