U n’ I with Rashmi Shetty

Member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of India, Sunil Jain is a practicing Chartered Accountant in Bangalore, specializing in the area of Tax & Corporate Consulting, Audit & Assurance functions. His life in the wheelchair did not stop him from dreaming. He founded ASTHA to harnesses the energies and resources from various entities, aimed at improving the lives of differently-abled individuals.

Sunil is a recipient of the Karmaveer Chakra instituted by the International Confederation of NGOs with the UN that recognizes people who have the courage of conviction to think differently and to act on ideas that make a difference in our world.

Divanshu Kumar and Samyak Jain are graduates from IIT Madras and are co-founders of Involve, an international award-winning social enterprise that aspires to create student-driven learning via Peer Teaching and develop agency in them. So far they have impacted around 3000+ students of Government schools in Tamil Nadu and Karnataka and plan to scale this to a million students in the next 5 years.

Divanshu also co-founded Solinas Integrity, along with prof. Prabhu Rajagopal, a spinoff from his college project that develops robots for septic tanks and sewer lines. He received an award from Prime Minister Narendra Modi and was also featured in CNBC Young Turks. Featured in Forbes, Linked In, Yourstory, and other media houses, he was recognized as the top 16 young entrepreneurs globally by Singapore International Foundation.

While Samyak is a champion of causes supporting kids to become leaders and changemakers. He has been a YES fellow and a Gratitude Fellow (top 30 fellows selected across the world) too.

Our guest today is a Strategic Advisor in CSR & a Diversity and Inclusion expert. Mentoring & coaching Senior leaders in the corporate world, Jacintha Jayachandran is a Trustee with HopeWorks Foundation

An HR professional, she moved on to become an entrepreneur & then found her calling in guiding teenage girls from economically weaker sections with HOPE, Her sole purpose to make a difference every day.

Working mainly with these girls who she helps dare to dream, she candidly shares her journey. An articulate speaker & storyteller Jacintha’s mission is timely, especially for the current crisis in INDIA, Listen in to understand how to nurture this powerful four-letter word HOPE!

Our guest today is Dr. Shabnam Bashir - a Breast & Colorectal oncosurgeon who has been the first postdoctoral Vattikuti Robotic Colorectal Fellow of India. She has the credit of being the first female organ-specific oncosurgeon of Kashmir to be trained in advanced Robotic surgeries. She has published extensively & is a major proponent of the fact that lifestyle alternatives can keep us healthy for long.

She is a Fellow of the Association of Colorectal Surgeons of India, Fellow Association of surgeons of India, Member of Royal College of Physicians & Surgeons of Glasgow UK, and member of many prestigious surgical organizations of India. Active in Cancer awareness drives since 2017, she has touched thousands of lives through her various Cancer awareness talks at various organizations and reputed institutions including IIM Bangalore.

Part 1 of the two-part series was where she spoke about her journey into the world of surgery a path where she did break a lot of glass ceilings. Part 2 will be on cancer & how timely interventions can make a difference. Listen in to Part 2 of the two-part series with Breast & Colorectal oncosurgeon, Dr. Shabnam Bashir.

Our guest today is Dr. Shabnam Bashir - a Breast & Colorectal oncosurgeon who has been the first postdoctoral Vattikuti Robotic Colorectal Fellow of India. She has the credit of being the first female organ-specific oncosurgeon of Kashmir to be trained in advanced Robotic surgeries. She has published extensively & is a major proponent of the fact that lifestyle alternatives can keep us healthy for long.

She is a Fellow of the Association of Colorectal Surgeons of India, Fellow Association of surgeons of India, Member of Royal College of Physicians & Surgeons of Glasgow UK, and member of many prestigious surgical organizations of India. Active in Cancer awareness drives since 2017, she has touched thousands of lives through her various Cancer awareness talks at various organizations and reputed institutions including IIM Bangalore.

This will be a two-part series where in the first part she talks about her journey into the world of surgery a path where she did break a lot of glass ceilings. Part 2 will be on cancer & how timely interventions can make a difference. Listen in to Part 1 of the two-part series with Breast & Colorectal oncosurgeon, Dr. Shabnam Bashir.

On the website of WHO, some key facts on Adolescent Mental health were:

Mental health conditions account for 16% of the global burden of disease and injury in people aged 10-19 years. Globally, depression is one of the leading causes of illness and disability among adolescents. Suicide is the third leading cause of death in 15-19-year-olds.

This inspired me to dedicate the next two episodes to Child & Adolescent Mental Health with Dr. Kaushik Roy who specializes in child & adolescent psychiatry. He sees patients from the age group of 5- 25 years. He is associated with St. Lukes University Hospital in Pennsylvania teaching fellow residents, medical students, mentoring psychotherapists & advanced practitioners. He also collaborates with other disciplines of medicine.

Part 2 of the two-part series with Dr. Kaushik Roy

On the website of WHO, some key facts on Adolescent Mental health were:

• Mental health conditions account for 16% of the global burden of disease and injury in people aged 10-19 years.

This inspired me to dedicate the next two episodes to Child & Adolescent Mental Health with Dr. Kaushik Roy who specializes in child & adolescent psychiatry. He sees patients from the age group of 5- 25 years. He is associated with St. Lukes University Hospital in Pennsylvania teaching fellow residents, medical students, mentoring psychotherapists & advanced practitioners. He also collaborates with other disciplines of medicine.

V.R.Ferose is Senior Vice President and Head of SAP Engineering Academy & based out of Palo Alto. He is a best-selling author, columnist, and founder of the India Inclusion Foundation. This World Autism Awareness Day, he tells us about a role he is blessed to play, that of an Inspired Dad to Vivaan who is on the Autism spectrum. He shares why awareness is important for parents and what are the lessons 12-year-old Vivaan has taught him over the years about life & living!

Our guests today are Indranil Sengupta and Rabia Tewari, the husband-wife duo synonymous with the Mahim Clean-up Initiative. When they first moved to their sea-facing apartment in Mumbai & saw heaps of garbage on the Mahim beach they took the first step. Armed with gloves, they began cleaning the stretch from Mahim Reti Bunder to Hinduja Hospital every weekend diligently between 8 and 10 a.m. Slowly but surely they inspired the city to step in to make it a citizen initiative & won a U N recognition. They share their inspiring journey & prove why each one of us counts in civic movements!

Today's guest is one who gives hopes to dream BIG & does is not give up! Listen to Deepak Kamath, the First Fastest Indian to have circumnavigated the world across all six continents. First Asian to have ridden on Antarctica. Sharing all the lessons he picked up from the University of LIFE!