What a decade of forty-five events taught me - I (Ignite Hyderabad)
An early morning discussion with my family and friends about how life was took me back to the memory lane when our weekends was about events and adding value to life by doing some meaningful work or at least, we thought we did . We did not know of terms like "community building" "branding" and "coaching" but we were doing that, anyway. One idea at a time. In this blogpost, I am going to write about Ignite Hyderabad . We had done five volumes of it in Hyderabad. At NIFT, Madhapur, ISB Hyderabad, State Art Gallery (two volumes), and the then-newly born Lamakaan, Road no 1, Banjara Hills. What is Ignite Hyderabad though? It was night of presentations where the heroes were people amidst you and me: yes, ordinary citizens who did extraordinary work. Ignite started in Seattle and Ravi, my classmate from Bhartiya Vidya Bhavans, formed a team to pursue a chapter in Hyderabad in 2010 . The organising team was a bunch of nine, including me; each, an emerging sp...