GenX Hangout

By Vandana. S. (Second year Masters in Mass Com, Jain University) Education plays an important role in creating knowledge, in bringing about changes. It is through education, knowledge, information the world leaders were able to bring about change, an evolution of movement for freedom. In today’s world when the literacy rate is so high, people should have been able to bring about greater changes. When we can access to information though different medium, we can bring about revolutionary changes. But rather than that, the institutions, society is limiting the thoughts of students and teaching us to learn only to earn money. How many parents are still encouraging the students to follow their dreams? More than that, how many of them are letting their kids to dream? They just force them to study. Study and score marks. They want their kids either to be an engineer or a doctor. The number of engineering institutions is increasing. In colleges, they offer courses that are commercial, ...

By Kasthuri.S (First prize - Bishop Cotton women’s Christian College) Education is the most powerful weapon which we can use to change the world.” In simple term education is the most powerful weapon which can change the lives of human beings and also world. This paper explains why does education need disruption? The objective is to clarify the importance of disruption in education. It also covers the importance of disruptive collaboration. This paper also explores the need of disruption in Indian education system. This paper is done by analyzing of education sector and the key element provides some of the ways to disrupt the education system. Let's disrupt education - now! Education has been a problem in our country and lack of it has been blamed for all sorts of evil for hundreds of years. Even Rabindranath Tagore wrote lengthy articles about how Indian education system needs to change. We have established IITs, IIMs, law schools and other institutions of excellen...

By Vishesh Anil Kumar  (3rd prize - St.Joseph's College Of Commerce, Bengaluru) There seems to be a year-on-year rise in socio-economic inequality around the world. In India itself, 1% of population owns 68% of the wealth (Credit Suisse, 2016) and a recent study by Oxfam suggests that 8 individuals in the world own more wealth than 36,000,000,000 (3.6 billion) of the poorest people in the world. These numbers suggest that our system and establishment is failing or at the least not doing enough to change things. Disruption is to ask, keep asking questions! The Brexit referendum and the rise of Donald Trump among various other events around the world shows that the people are afraid and have lost faith in their institutions and are resorting to irrational measures to bring the system back in balance. I believe these are just reflections of a deeper problem that is rooted in inequality. These statistics and events are not just the result of inefficient and corrupt poli...

  By Apeksha Arora ( 2 nd prize 1 st year MA-Journalism CMS COLLEGE, Bengaluru) Are we ready for the future? This question has probably struck each of our minds at a certain stage of our lives. And certainly, for a moment we did question ourselves “Are we actually ready for the future”. Perhaps, I would be right if I say that we aren’t ready for future until we are prepared for it. It’s an apt thought that we are our own destiny creators, we set the goal, create paths and strive hard to achieve them. Like a lighthouse that guides the ship in the same manner we lead the way to our lives. A snapshot of the YCC Conclave Gone are the days when a persons’ knowledge was his most influential possession today the world admires those who are informative to a grea t extent. Talking about knowledge it can easily be acquired by all those theory books we skim through in college or by being good at academics. But is that knowledge enough to get into an industry? The answer Is ob...

YCC organsied a contest on Disruption as a prelude to the 11th Global Communication conclave and the YCC Convlave held at Bengaluru. The contest has attracted an overwhelming response from across the mass communication student community. Here, we present, prize winning entries for the readers of GenX Hangout! Disrupt Education, Recreate Society By Sheelu Alex (First Prize, Saint Teresa's College Ernakulam, Kerala) Ruptures are unlike raptures; they are not easy. Without notice, without warning, ruptures happen, and in the blink of an eye, you find yourself trying to balance on a hanging bridge, suspended between the vast emptiness of the sky and the bleak roughness of the terrain. You see enraptured people coming up, wondering what is new, spending some of their time to stare at you, sometimes a few seconds more to observe you but none to step along with you into the uncertain position. Don’t give up! Challenge! Rupture! Disrupt! Innovate! Create! And you resurr...

Akshay Patra-PRCI event to motivate the youth BENGALURU: The Akshaya Patra Foundation and Public Relation Council of India (PRCI) held  a panel discussion  on ‘You can be the Change’, to discuss how a common man  can contribute to bringing  about a  change in child welfare” on 5th of May, 2017 at Rangasthala, Rangoli - Metro Art Centre. The panellists were  Amit Amarnath – Founder, Youth for Parivarthan, Vinay Bharadwaj – Banker & Designer,  Mayuraa Raghavendra – Radio Jockey, 92.7 BIG FM,  Mrs Geetha Shankar – Director, PRCI and Shridhar Venkat – CEO, The Akshaya Patra Foundation. The panel was moderated by Mrs Meera Bharadwaj – Senior Journalist, The New Indian Express. Vinay Bharadwaj who pioneered a show called 'Let's Talk with Vinay' on YouTube, is spreading awareness among youth on cancer.  He said that this Panel Discussion on Child Welfare has made him think bigger and take up much more initiatives in this area. Amit ...