I wake up at 6.30 am in the very relaxing and lazy morning of March 4th 2012, Sunday. I suddenly realize that I quickly need to brush my teeth, dress up in crisp formals and hurry to the bus stop within 7.15 am. My friend had arranged the tickets for the two of us, without which I’d still be snoring in my bed. I was really hesitant to make it happen… come on… it’s a Sunday, and I can always watch the videos of the talks later. But then… although still really lazy… I just went for it.
I was on my way to attend my first ever TED talk at TEDxNMAMIT, hosted in my college NMAMIT, which gave me my degree, my job and my career.
Note: The “quoted” lines in this article are from the TED talk of the speaker in context.
This one’s special. I’m a 22 year old who entered the blogging community about a month ago and I’m just about two weeks old on 
took inspiration from his brother, Shiva Nagri, who owns 
I wanted to write this post long back but I’m glad I kept this for the month-end closure posts. To start with, Karthik Kastury is the reason why I’m writing this post, why I’m blogging and most of all and why I have become such an Internet addict over the past three years! Without his influence, I think I would be an Internet-illiterate by hanging only to Facebook! He’s not only an inspiration when it comes to cyber technology, but also to life’s outlook as a whole.
Karthik is a decade old on the Internet and his passion for technology pushes his boundaries further. For his final year project, along with his project team, Karthik created 
Karthik has not only been an influence to me, but also to many others in my college and around. In our college of NMAM Institute of Technology, Nitte, Karthik was the first person to lead the brigade to host inter-collegiate technical and cultural fests. Following his initiative, his branch, other branches and the college as a whole woke up to the new flavour infused in college life. Until then, I regret to admit that other than academics, there was hardly anything to immerse in our college. He hosted the first Dumb Charades competition in our college, the format of which became tremendously popular in the entire Mangalorean belt and was copied in other colleges as well.
It’s like an understatement to say that Nelson Mandela is an inspirer. Of course he is! And so are many others like Mahatma Gandhi, Mother Teresa, etc. So why exactly am I writing this post then? I was born in the year 1988. I did not know how great Mandela was or of his contributions to history. Even when I studied history in school, I wasn’t that inspired by Mandela at all. But it is when I watched this film 
