Speakers share life experience at MICA meet

Updated on: Thursday, March 03, 2011

An international conference for “spreading ideas” was organised here on Saturday last by the Mudra Institute of Communications, Ahmedabad, (MICA), to give the younger generation more insight into life.

The “TEDxMICA” conference, however, lost much of its shine as some of the celebrity participants, including the former president, A. P. J. Abdul Kalam, Hindi film personalities Amir Khan and Vidya Balan, and the Kerala cadre Indian Administrative Service officer, Raju Narayana Swamy, did not turn up. Representatives from industry, students of the MICA and some youth volunteers participated in the discussions.

Most speakers shared their experiences in life to educate the youths in various fields.

“TED,” which stands for Technology, Entertainment and Design, was founded in California, U.S., in 1984 to bring people from these three fields devoted to the “Ideas worth Spreading.”

The TED occasionally gather people for the exchange of ideas as it believed in the “power of ideas to change attitudes, lives and ultimately the world.”

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