They say, “History repeats”, especially when the outcomes are not a good one. Maybe we are not learning from history. Instead of creating a new history, we may be repeating the same mistakes. Once my boss at work asked me, “Naveen Lakkur, do you want to learn from your mistakes?” Without even a blink, my…

The World Thinking Day is an initiative started by the Scouts and Guides movement. Over the years, their “thinking day” changed to “World Thinking Day”. Every year since 2005 a theme is decided and discussed. In 2005, the theme was “Think about food” and in 2008, the theme was “think about water”. The theme of…

Hello! On this youth day, we start off this edition with Swami Vivekananda’s most popular quote. This quote is enough to inspire any youth anywhere. The banner image features a moon rover built by Team Indus. They designed the rover as a part of the Google Lunar X Prize. However, the team and their competitors…

Among all else, Vivekananda was against fanaticism of all kinds and campaigned world over against it. Wherever he traveled, people came to listen. The defining moment of his life came on September 11, 1893 at Chicago. Speaking at the first Parliament of World’s Religions, part of the World Fair, he stood on stage and began,…

  Hello! The banner image features ReMeDi® Solution, an innovative product developed by Neurosynaptic Communications Pvt. Ltd. The startup has created this patented technology that can be used for telemedicine and seems committed to bring a positive change in the society. Talking about the change in the society reminds me of Mahatma Gandhi who continues…

After waking up early in the morning, Appy an elephant tusker with great powers and his name synonym to ‘Happiness’ went to the living room to join his twin sister Proppy drinking her morning sugarcane juice. Proppy a sharp and beautiful elephant with her name synonym to ‘Prosperity’. Both Appy & Proppy love humans so…

Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, also lovingly known as Bapu among the first circle, Father of the Nation in India or Mahatma in the World, is in the thoughts and memory of millions of people worldwide. Naveen Lakkur thinks he is one of the innovative genius to live. He disrupted things as they were and taught how…

Hello! The banner image features an innovative product called “Trash Boom”, by Agastya Buoyant. This product has changed the way river and lake cleaning is done. In this edition of Spark, we show you about embracing change. There are articles from the web about what brings about change, the profiles of digital innovators, how the invention of…

“Change” is the most certain thing in life. Nothing is static in this world. Everything is subject to change. The weather changes every minute and so does your mind. The human mind probably changes faster than anything else known to man. One of the greatest influencers the world has seen in recent times, Mahatma Gandhi…