Transform India Movement

Yesterday, Sunday, 28th Dec 2008. It was our first creation meeting for transform India movement. The meeting was in Cubbon park, Bangalore it started ten minutes late. We only were four people in starting. few were little disappointed to see very few people, few had regret because their invited guest didn’t turned up. We started our meeting with discussion on the problems which need solutions on urgent basis, we asked all members which they see as the biggest problem. After few minutes two more people came up and before another half an hour we were 8 people discussing on the issue. Soon we had a list of problems like poverty, inequality, corruption, increasing population, pollution, politics, security, unemployment etc. After the brain storming we asked our members to suggest us few possible solutions for the problem which they are more concerned about, the new members were bit surprised to see we are asking them the solution instead of giving them. To our no surprise they were knowing the possible solutions to the problem they concerned about and got more clarity on the solution after discussing with other members. We called them for action on there solution, because the idea is just a idea until it is implemented. We call them for action and asked their 1% of time (15mins per day) to devote to think and act only on the solution to that problem. We told them our Idea on how we are going to take action and create transformation on national level using website and regular creation meetings of members. In the last we took the feedback about the meeting and our idea. We made the Plan of action for every member of our new group and bid them to meet next time.

The discussion looks very simple but it was very empowering. We could see people taking responsibilities on them and creating the solutions. They were thinking only about those social problems and action they will take to solve that problem. The action will show up by next meet but the energy and enthusiasm we seen there was awesome. There were not eight individuals there were team of eight extra-ordinary Indians who started the movement to transform India.

In last we would like to acknowledge Sutirtha, Anusri, Tarun, Neelam, Nagaraj, Rohan on behalf of us (Arindam, Pranab and Ashish) for attending the meeting, and to Harshitha and Savitha who joined us in last. Also we would like to thank all of their families and friends to provide them empowerment in all forms so they made it to this meeting.