I am delighted to share my personal diary of my teenage interspersed with our 25 year old ‘Diary of Dreams’ at Ullas Trust work with over 1.7 million high school students.
We were searching for a good book for high school students with Indian background which can be easy read with some structured inspiration but did not find one. After lots of persuasion, I could find time to start writing this book with the help of Manju and Padmini. I sent it alongwith Diwali Gift to few friends. They loved the book which encouraged me to publish this book in this post.
The book got developed around power of 5 capacities of teenage mind ie Imagination, Learning, Doing, being effective, being Influencing. In last 25 years, Ullas volunteers help student from 9th grade to write their dream and their role model in a small diary – ‘Diary of Dreams(DOD)’. This process is done in form of DOD workshop facilitated by Polaris, Intellect and Mission Samriddhi volunteers in over 85 districts across India. The book is an outcome of our deep experiences of working with 1.7 million kids.
I am dedicating this book on this Diwali to bring out light of hope, dreams and aspirations to Teenager.
I am delighted to share my personal diary of my teenage interspersed with our 25 year old ‘Diary of Dreams’ at Ullas Trust work with over 1.7 million high school students.
We were searching for a good book for high school students with Indian background which can be easy read with some structured inspiration but did not find one. After lots of persuasion, I could find time to start writing this book with the help of Manju and Padmini. I sent it alongwith Diwali Gift to few friends. They loved the book which encouraged me to publish this book in this post.
The book got developed around power of 5 capacities of teenage mind ie Imagination, Learning, Doing, being effective, being Influencing. In last 25 years, Ullas volunteers help student from 9th grade to write their dream and their role model in a small diary – ‘Diary of Dreams(DOD)’. This process is done in form of DOD workshop facilitated by Polaris, Intellect and Mission Samriddhi volunteers in over 85 districts across India. The book is an outcome of our deep experiences of working with 1.7 million kids.
I am dedicating this book on this Diwali to bring out light of hope, dreams and aspirations to Teenager. Till date Ullas has distributed 10,200 copies of this book to high school students.
Dinesh Chandra’s recent post sheds light on an initiative that profoundly touched our hearts – Banwasi Seva Ashram in Sonbhadra. This sacred haven has emerged as a beacon of hope, driven by a profound belief in the transformative power of love.
In the past, this region was synonymous with violence and was associated with the Naxalite movement. However, today, the situation has taken a remarkable turn. In some of the villages here, not a single police report has been filed recently, a testament to the positive change that has occurred.
In a world that often seems to believe that violence can only be countered with more violence and that hatred can only be overcome by more hatred, Banwasi Seva Ashram stands as living proof that love possesses the alchemical power to bring about lasting transformation.
I wholeheartedly endorse Dinesh’s invitation to visit this remarkable institution to witness firsthand the profound truth that love has the potential to change destinies. Together, we can make a difference.
Today we are celebrating Ullas – The Young Achiever, 26th Annual ‘Can Do’ workshop 2023 at Music Academy, Chennai.
The workshop has over 1100 Teenagers from class 9 from government and corporation schools selected thru proper test. The test was taken by over 5000 students from over 200 schools in Chennai.
This workshop is named as ‘Diary of Dreams’ Workshop where we encourage students to write their dream in small personal diary handed to them among 1100 other students.
This is a beginning of their journey of Design the Thinking to drive higher performance followed by 20 Life skills workshops.
The 20 workshop are divided into 4 Summits.
Summit 1 for 9th standard Summit 2 for 10th standard
Summit 3 for 11th standard
Summit 4 for 12th standard
Each Summit has 5 Workshops conducted by Polaris/Intellect Employees, Ullas Alumni and college students.
Virtue 3 (Uttam Arjava): Simplicity, Straightforward and Integrity
Thoughts, Words and Actions are 3 keywords which form the straight line of straightforwardness. It gets expressed in a negative sense as a word Deceit or Maya.
My own understanding of these words, not necessarily yours.
Three words form the backbone of this virtue – Needs, Desires and Greed. Understanding these words leads to high-performance thinking or strategic decisioning.
My interpretation of scriptural understanding in today’s context.
Driving Digital Enterprise to Cognitive Institution :
IntellectAI kept resonating on 2nd day at Sibos with its CoPilot for Corporate Bankers.
Let me share the story of the origin of CoPilot. Intellect started its AI journey 7 years back in US. We were the first ones to setup a dedicated team in US and embark on ‘Platform’ approach to build AI capabilities aligned to what Financial Services will need in future.
During the first phase, which we refer as IntellectAI 1.0, we mastered the art of extracting contextual and sentimental data from Excel Sheets, PDF Documents and Images, applied triangulation, validation and enrichment, to create what we called as Document Intelligence Platform. The technology behind it took 5 years to mature from Build Stage i.e. 80+ percent accuracy to Decision Grade AI with 97+ percent accuracy. This technology was then successfully applied in highly document intense industry space of Policy Underwriting, especially for P&C (Property & Casualty) Insurance. Today this technology has empowered 20+ customers globally in taking better and informed decisions in Policy Underwriting, Cash Management and Expense Management spaces.
Once we mastered the Document Intelligence Platform, we moved to the next phase of our journey to build Multi-Question Search(MQS) and Triangulation technologies. In Financial services space, the problems are multi-dimensional with highest level of complexity associated with the variables around each dimension. For making it Decision Grade, it required accuracy, referenceability and audit trail for each proposed inference. This is what our next generation technologies were able to deliver. And this is what we christened as CoPilot, ready for adoption across multiple industry segments.
IntellectAI’s CoPilot for ESG was adopted by largest Norwegian Fund to create ESG Risk Wheel, which is a combination of 150 unique set of questions, triaged from data of 8000+ companies.
Our CoPilot for Corporate Banking is targeted to leverage the power of AI in Commercial Banking space. It seamlessly connects with Microsoft Azure OpenAI, delivers the high octane of Prompt Engineering and GenAI, in order to boost accelerated revenue growth with reduced operational costs.
We are already receiving huge interests from global banks who are asking right questions to bring more clarity and explore opportunities in their journey to become Cognitive Institution from a Digital Enterprise.
Hello, my name is Arun Jain. I am a design thinker living in Chennai, India. This is my blog, where I post my thoughts, technology trends and tips about the fintech world and many more.
