In this conversation, Hamsa Ravikiran and Sivaguru exchange Japanese language and Sanskrit snippets as Hamsa shares her stories on
- Working after her BE and getting exposure to a breadth of software development from coding and testing to project and program management at Exim Soft
- Taking a break, doing an entrepreneurial program at IIM Bangalore and getting the first prize for her business idea
- Joining IBM to conceptualize and implement a knowledge management system
- Taking another break and starting a company to deliver marketing services, by women working from home
- Discovering Youth for Seva an NGO, and finding her calling
- Working with corporate CSR’s on awareness around waste management & segregation
- Hooked onto learning Sanskrit since 2013 and conducting workshops on spoken Sanskrit to doing her MA, MPhil and now planning to do her PhD in Sanskrit
- Experiences working from home and finding a balance between remote and in-person working & setting boundaries when working from home
- Contrasting being an entrepreneur and a project manager in a corporate setting
- Relevance and applicability of techniques learned as and entrepreneur and/or working in corporates, to the social sector to help sustain those activities
- Continuously motivated and challenged while learning Sanskrit
- Translating principles from the Ramayana by examining its stories like case studies to apply in daily life, today
- Finding one’s calling or purpose in life and a message in Sanskrit
An engineering graduate who joined the IT industry as a programmer, moved on to become project manager working in Indian software company and later an MNC. Hamsa completed the Management Program for Women Entrepreneur (MPWE ) from IIM Bangalore and co-founded an IT & Marketing firm named AddTo . She then worked with an NGO called Youth For Seva as a coordinator for Environmental issues and Corporate Social Responsibility. She took up Sanskrit Studies, conducted spoken sanskrit workshops, organised exhibitions and events to teach and promote sanskrit . Hamsa completed her MA - Mphil in Sanskrit and is currently pursuing a Phd in Sanskrit.
Hamsa can be reached through her email hamsa.ravikiran@gmail.com
