TED - Ideas worth spreading

It was a new word and world for me when I first heard a TED talk during my Infosys training period. Iy was of Shashi Tharoor on soft power. At that point, I had no idea what it was and how good the world of TED was. But during the last HR conclave at LIBA, I was again attracted to few other TED talks. Thereafter I spend time in listening to few TED talks daily. It has really been interesting listening to the profound knowledge of various TED speakers from around the world. What I have seen is just tip of the ice berg.

A word about TED : TED (Technology, Entertainment and Design) is a global set of conferences owned by the private non-profit Sapling Foundation, formed to disseminate "ideas worth spreading."

Source : Wikipedia : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TED_(conference)

Shashi Tharoor in his TED talk emphasizes on why nations should focus on soft power - The power that attracts other nationalities to a country. It is not only economic power and military strength that leads to the growth of the country. But it is the power of a country in terms of its political, social, economic, cultural, linguistic and all other specialities and varieties that is going to make a country powerful in the years to come and India is in the right path towards that. He asserts the diversity of India in all aspects of society. What I liked most is the sentence where he describes the last Parliament election : " .... the last election gave the world extraordinary phenomenon of an election won by a woman political leader of Italian origin and Roman Catholic faith, Sonia Gandhi, who then made way for a Sikh Manmohan Singh, to be sworn in as Prime Minister by a Muslim President Abdul Kalam in a country 81% Hindu" .. .It describes the real India...

There are thousands of TED talks like this... So just like u facebook or tweet, find time to TED also... :)

Click here to listen to Shashi Tharoor on TED