Beautiful minds, exciting thoughts

Updated on: 16 March,2009 07:51 AM IST |
Priyadarshini Chatterjee |

The Beautiful Minds conference, held at Our Native Village in Hessarghata, saw some of the city's brightest share their ideas on how to make the world a better place

The Beautiful Minds conference, held at Our Native Village in Hessarghata, saw some of the city's brightest share their ideas on how to make the world a better place

Sylvan: Our Native Villageu00a0 Pics/ Satish Badiger

Subroto Bagchi, who calls himselfu00a0 "the gardener of human talent" and founder of Mindtree, began the session by putting in perspective the nine different kinds of intelligences and how they can be used to build five minds of future.

He said this century will be about right-brain thinking.u00a0 His erudition was followed by a passionate speech by environmentalist Ullas Karanth on why we should value nature.

"Since Indian is coming to the development party nearly 200 years late, we have the advantage of looking at things in the rearview mirror," said Nandan Nilekani, one of the founders of Infosys Technologies and author of Imagining India.

The other speakers included Narayana Reddy, Hasnath Mansur, Dr Newton Kondaveti and Janet Bray Attwood. Journalist Shobha Narayan moderated the show.

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