 Hello sir, I would just like to begin your speech was amazing, I thoroughly enjoyed your personal anecdotes it was a really good speech to listen to. So to begin with the classic question how does it feel to be a TEDx speaker? Well it feels great, I think long since childhood I've been watching TEDx speeches, Harsha Boghly was one of my favorite, I am Ahmedabad, I am Calcutta and so I always aspired one day that I'll be on a TEDx forum. That's good. So sir you've described yourself as your typical I am stereotyped graduate but what is one philosophy that you believe in that makes you stand out from the crowd? Well I think definitely I have gone through the conventional schooling and education and you know chosen to pursue a conventional career background. I think what stands out is I'm very into about people right so I enjoy interacting and meeting with people, spend a lot of time trying to understand folks and that's helped me car was a pretty niche for myself. Other than my name of course which is very unique so that stands out but yes I do enjoy interacting with people. Your people skills were clearly seen in the speech sir was great and coming back to now you talked about the sphere of influence so what do you think the audience is going to take away from your speech today? Sure so I think as students specifically it's quite simple to think about your sphere of influence look around yourself your classmates your peers your teachers parents siblings so on and so forth right and every day you are in some form of a negotiation with them so how do you prevail on them what kind of tactics you employ those will help you build certain vital leadership traits that will hold you in good stead for the future. One more from your speech you spoke about the story of David and Goliath but David is it's believed that he was the chosen one he had the hand of God so do you think leaders are born or do you think the skill of leadership can be learned? Sure so I think David and Goliath is quite a popular metaphor to use so to say definitely it's very I think it's very immature to say that you know people are born with something you're born with just your basic you know body organs and body parts and and definitely what you make of it right what you make of life is what it is all about right so the key thing is that from the time you're born okay from the time you can actually have a sense of yourself that's the time I think you should start understanding or identifying what your identity is going to be right so leadership is a part of that you inculcate you imbibe and you grow with that I rarely you know I quite doubt this saying that you know you're born with a leadership trait yeah exactly I think that's something really good students can take away you still have time to be a leader it's from a TEDx speaker directly so coming back to that how is your experience at TEDx Elpro how do you feel today it's wonderful I think wonderfully organized event all your students I can see the and through it's great some of the student speakers they had a profound impact on me because the kind of experiences they shared showed a lot of maturity they're very diverse experiences very touchy subjects as well so handled with a lot of finesse that was great and it's great to be in the school environment again thank you so much thank you for your time