I HAVE A DREAM

By Rashmi bansal

Presented By: Shrutika Sinha

Rashmi bansal

She is a writer, entrepreneur and youth expert. She is the author of two bestselling books on entrepreneurship.

‘Stay Hungry Stay Foolish’features the stories of 25 MBAs who left lucrative jobs to follow the rough road of entrepreneurship. Rashmi’s second book, ‘Connect the Dots’ focuses on non-MBA entrepreneurs.

She is motivational speaker and mentor to the students and young entrepreneurs.

She is an economics graduate from Sophia College, Mumbai and an MBA from IIM Ahmedabad,

"I have a dream... That one day all of God's children will be able to join hands and sing... Free at last! Free at last! Thank God Almighty, we are free at last!" The author has started the book with such inspiring words from

Martin Luther King Jr speech on 28th August 1963.

Beginning of the Dream

“A tree is known by its fruit”and so the author’s note as it defines the book, best as “These are people like you and me, not Mother Teresa. They are using the principles of business, to create a better world” A world where profit does not equal greed where people come together for a greater common cause. A world where “I” does not mean crushing “them”

A Word About The Author

The inspiring story of 20 social entrepreneurs who took up a social cause and made a business out of it. Their motive is not to earn more money, but to make a difference in the lives of people around them.

RAINMAKERS

THE SPIRITUAL CAPITALISTC

CHANGEMAKERS

Rainmakers

Social enterprises which generates revenue. A new model of doing good, not mere charity.

Bindeshwar Pathak

"Sulabh International" who revolutionized the sanitary situation in India.

 He conceptualized to realize Mahatma Gandhi’s dream of a “Clean India” and his struggle to     remove the caste system in 1960s. 

Saloni Malhotra 

She setup the India's first rural BPO DesiCrew, a socially motivated business process outsourcing company with a double bottom line (financial and social development), connects global clients with low cost back office centers in rural India.

Anand Kumar

Anand Kumar is an Indian mathematician and a columnist for various national and international mathematical journals and magazines.

 He is best known for his  Super 30 programme, which he started in Patna, Bihar in 2002, and which coaches economically backward students for IIT-JEE, the entrance examination for the Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs). 

By 2011, 236 of the 270 had made it to IITs and Discovery Channel showcased his work in a documentary.

 Dhruv Lakra  In August 2008, a chance encounter with a deaf boy on a bus made Dhruv realise that the deaf have limited opportunities for employment despite their education and skills. 

Volunteering with organisations working with the deaf, Dhruv witnessed the poor standards of living resulting from this lack of income. 

Dhruv's solution is to launch a courier service run by under-privileged deaf adults in every major metro in India. The 'Mirakle Courier' pilot in Mumbai already employs 50 people suffering hearing loss.

Changemakers    Those who cannot just accept what is wrong and make every possible step to change the way the society functions

Anshu Gupta is a social innovator par excellence. He has not only identified social problems that are outside the radar screens of most NGOs and Government funding agencies, he has also been able to structure imaginative solutions to pressing social issues by recycling urban waste resources such as clothing and school materials.

GOONJ (which means “Echo” in Hindi) was founded by Anshu in 1998 with only 67 units of clothing. Now its impact reverberates in 21 states of India with over 40,000 kgs of material being processed every month.

Anshu Gupta

Arvind KejriwalKejriwal  joined the Indian Revenue Service in 1995.In February 2006, he voluntarily resigned from the IRS as Joint Commissioner in IT Department. After voluntary resignation from job, he founded Parivartan, a Delhi based citizens’ movement which works on ensuring a just, transparent and accountable governance. 

In December 2006, Kejriwal along with Manish Sisodia and Abhinandan  Sekhri started Public Cause Research Foundation, which works for promoting better local self governance and RTI related campaigns

Bushan Punani 

"Blind People's Association (BPA)" who is an MBA from IIM, but decided to see if management principles could be applied to the social sectors and create a change, which he did with BPA.

The Spiritual CapitalistsThese are highly educated guys from IIT's and IIM's who felt that the service to others and the purity of the self is the way to achieve eternal liberation from this cycle of birth and death, thus renounced their material world.

Vinayak Lohani – born 1978IIM  Calcutta graduate turned his back on corporate India to do something of service to humanity"Parivaar Ashram" - a residential facility for orphans, tribals and the daughters of prostitutes 

Inspired by spiritual and humanistic ideals of Sri Ramakrishna and Swami Vivekananda, decided to devote his entire life for serving ‘Divine in Man’ as taught by Swami Vivekananda. 

Madhu Pandit Dasa – Born 1956Student of IIT ,Madhu  Pandit came close to committing suicide then he discovered krishna and embraced the spiritual path

"Akshaya Patra" from ISKON Bangalore who feeds one million hungry children every day, in and around bangalore

These stories say one thing loud and clear..

CHANGE STARTS WITH ONE PERSON ,AND THAT ONE PERSON COULD BE SOMEONE NEXT DOOR

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