Monday, 14 September 2015

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

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