Thursday, October 16, 2014

HIDDEN POTENTIAL


Sanjit 'Bunker' Roy is an Indian social activist and educator who founded the Barefoot College. He was selected as one of Time 100's 100
most influential personalities in 2010 for his work in educating illiterate and semi-literate rural Indians.

In 1965 a young post graduate student, SANJIT “BUNKER” ROY volunteered to spend the summer working with famine affected people in Palamu District Bihar, now Jharkhand, one of the poorest of India’s states. His urban elitist upbringing had distanced him from poverty and destitution. This experience changed him, and formed the determination to fight poverty and inequality. It became his mission. The idea of the SWRC (Social Works and Research Centre), Tilonia emerged from these concerns. 
In this TED Talk, Roy speaks about his Barefoot College. After watching this video you will feel a sense of how we have been neglecting the potential for Change that is growing among us all the time only to find itself unnoticed.

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