Pune Vedh Report
Photograph of students and KPs from Pune,VSM who attended the seminar clicked with Dr. Anand Nadkarni.
Institute
of Psychological Health (IPH)’s 5th Career perspectives Conference
was conducted at Yashwantrao Chavan Auditorium, Kothrud Pune on 12th
September and 13th September 2015.
The
theme of 5th Pune Vedh was “Chhandanand”
On
the first day two guests were Padmashri Jadav Payeng and Mr. Sachin Gaokar.
v Padmashri Jadav Payeng hails from Assam where
Brahmaputra is creating havoc every year due to floods. It has many deserted islands between the
course of river. Mr. Jadav Payeng “
Forest Man of India” has converted 1400 acres of desert land in to a jungle and
has planted 110 varieties of trees which are countless. Due to his efforts of
conservation of forest he has been awarded Padmashri by Government of India. He
narrated his story which was illustrated by various short films and news
reports on him. He received a standing ovation from the audience.
v The second guest of honor was Mr. Sachin Gaokar who
works for IPH, had decided to celebrate IPH’s 25th year celebration
by travelling 14000 KM distance in 25 states of India for spreading mental
health awareness in India in every state. He narrated his experiences and also
presented one documentary which was applauded by the audience.
The
second day was packed with interviews and performances of seven guests.
v
The first guest
of honor for the day was Ms. Madhugandha Kulkarni who is a famous writer,
producer and an Actor in Marathi drama and Marathi serials. She narrated her story from her childhood to
the present and also explained her various experiences in her journey of
becoming actor, story writer followed by novels, drama, serials and movies. Her
journey was exemplary and inspiring.
v
The second guest
of honor was Mr.Vicky Roy, world renowned photographer. Due to poverty and
torture faced at early age, he left his home at his tender age of 11 and
reached to Delhi and stayed at Delhi Railway station. Then he got shelter under
Salamwala trust where he got support from the trust to learn the photography.
Then there was no looking back. He learnt photography from a British
Photographer. He was selected in 4 photographers, who photographed
reconstruction work of World trade centre being constructed at New York. His hardships and his courage of converting
opportunities in to success was very inspiring.
v
The third guest
of honor was Bhashaprapbhu Mr. Sanket Limaye who is working as Language Officer
at Saraswat Bank knows almost 19 languages from India and other countries. He
explained various words which are common and have travelled from other
languages. He told us that almost 5600 words have travelled from Farasi
language in Marathi. He narrated various
examples and words from various language as well recited some Marathi/hindi
songs and their original songs in other
languages. His performance was very entertaining.
v
In the fourth
session we met Sachin Sanghe, Electornics & telecommunication Engineer from
Bangalore. He displayed his art of Chalkruthi
which is a chalk carving art. His art has been appreciated by Mr. Sachin
Tendulkar and Mr. Amitabh Bachhan who also follows Sachin on Twitter. He showed us pictures of all his chalkruthis
and also demonstrated his skills live during the programme.
v
The other guest
was Ms. Nilima Kadhe who is founder and principal of Thane School of Art. She
has balanced her career as painter and Bharatnatyam dancer. She explained the
common things between the painting and dancing and explained that both the arts
are complimenting each other in many ways.
v The last session was having rocking performances by
renowned flute player Mr. Amar Oak and famous guitarist Mr. Madhur Padwal who can play almost 30
instruments. Both of them explained the
process and demonstrated fusion music which was appreciated by the audience by
giving them a standing ovation.
Dr.
Anand Nadkarni concluded the VEDH seminar and announced the theme of next Pune Vedh as “ Maksad” i.e. Hetu in Marathi.
With Regards,
Avinash Mehendale
