Sharing stories to inspire people

Eminent personalities like T Krishna Prasad, DGP-Road Safety Authority, Telangana, Major Mohammed Ali Shah, theatre and film actor, and Anshu Gupta, founder of Goonj, shared their success stories as a part of the second edition of DiSRUPPt-2017 organised recently at Trident Hyderabad.

DiSRUPPt is a platform founded to create disruption in the minds, thoughts, ideas, words and actions of your daily personal and professional life. At the event, the guests shared their stories to inspire the audience.

“I always wanted to do something different throughout my life. I worked in an ad agencies after my studies and then I quickly realised that I was working for someone to make them richer, so I quit that job and joined IPS.

In my tenure, I connected the entire police stations to one network so that we could track any criminal details anywhere from India. In combined Andhra Pradesh, we trained 2,000 police to work in cyber crime cell. At that time AP was the only State that had at least five CID personnel in every district, where they were working on cyber crimes,” T Krishna Prasad, DGP-Road Safety Authority, Telangana, said.

Krishna Prasad also spoke about CCTNS (Crime and Criminal Tracking Network and Systems) project which has the record of every individual crime in a national database. He also shared about how Naxals were removed from the State during his tenure in Vishakhapatnam.

He shared details about his various programmes like Child Trafficking, Road Safety, introducing PPP (Public Private Partnership). He also adopted a village, Yerravelli near Vikarabad and has done many development activities. He was also the man behind the initiative of ‘Right to Education Act’.

Anshu Gupta, the founder of Goonj, a Delhi-based NGO and former journalist, said: “In this country, more people are dying due to lack of clothes than any other problems. We are the fastest growing economy in the world but at the same time, we are the country where lakhs of people still die of cold due to lack of clothing every winter. This is very sad.”

Anshu also came up with a scheme of ‘Barter’ system. The concept is that if you need clothes then you have to give your labour in exchange. Anshu stated that it has produced great results. Major Mohammed Ali Shah, a defence personnel-turned-actor said, “I was five years old when I acted in a play.

Since then I wanted to become an actor. I tried to enrol in National School of Drama two times but I have been rejected on both the occasions. My father was in Army and I also joined it. I served in Jammu and Kashmir.

Later, I got a call from director Vishal Bharadwaj and he said that he was doing a film based on Kashmir. And that’s how I got a role in ‘Haider’ and I received appreciation for my role.” Ali Shah also said that how he met Salman Khan during the Filmfare awards and explained how that helped him to bag opportunity in ‘Bajrangi Bhaijaan’.