Rashmi Bansal is a writer, entrepreneur and youth expert from India. She has authored two bestselling books on entrepreneurship that profile 25 MBAs who left lucrative jobs to start their own businesses, and non-MBA entrepreneurs. Bansal is also a motivational speaker and mentor for students and young entrepreneurs. The document goes on to summarize chapters from Bansal's book that profile social entrepreneurs in India who have started businesses and organizations to create social change and impact lives.

1. I HAVE A
DREAM
By Rashmi bansal
Presented By: Shrutika Sinha

2. Rashmi bansal
She is a writer, entrepreneur and youth expert. She is the author of two
bestselling books on entrepreneurship.
‘Stay Hungry Stay Foolish’features the stories of 25 MBAs who left
lucrative jobs to follow the rough road of entrepreneurship.
Rashmi’s second book, ‘Connect the Dots’ focuses on non-MBA
entrepreneurs.
She is motivational speaker and mentor to the students and young
entrepreneurs.
She is an economics graduate from Sophia College, Mumbai and an
MBA from IIM Ahmedabad,

3. Beginning of the Dream
"I have a dream... That one day all of
God's children will be able to join
hands and sing... Free at last! Free at
last! Thank God Almighty, we are free
at last!"
The author has started the book with such inspiring words from
Martin Luther King Jr speech on 28th August 1963.

4. A Word About The Author
“A tree is known by its fruit”and so
the author’s note as it defines the book, best
as “These are people like you and me, not
Mother Teresa. They are using the principles of
business, to create a better world” A world
where profit does not equal greed where
people come together for a greater common
cause. A world where “I” does not mean
crushing “them”

5. The inspiring story of 20 social entrepreneurs
who took up a social cause and made a
business out of it. Their motive is not to earn
more money, but to make a difference in the
lives of people around them.
THE SPIRITUAL
CAPITALISTC
RAINMAKERS
CHANGEMAKERS

6. Rainmakers
Social enterprises which generates revenue. A new model of doing
good, not mere charity.
Bindeshwar Pathak
He conceptualized to realize Mahatma Gandhi’s dream of a “Clean
India” and his struggle to remove the caste system in 1960s.
"Sulabh International" who revolutionized the sanitary situation
in India.
Saloni Malhotra
She setup the India's first rural BPO DesiCrew, a socially motivated
business process outsourcing company with a double bottom line
(financial and social development), connects global clients with low cost
back office centers in rural India.

7. Anand Kumar
Anand Kumar is an Indian mathematician and a columnist for various
national and international mathematical journals and magazines.
He is best known for his Super 30 programme, which he started in
Patna, Bihar in 2002, and which coaches economically backward
students for IIT-JEE, the entrance examination for the Indian Institutes
of Technology (IITs).
By 2011, 236 of the 270 had made it to IITs and Discovery Channel
showcased his work in a documentary.

8. Dhruv Lakra
In August 2008, a chance encounter with a deaf boy on a bus made
Dhruv realise that the deaf have limited opportunities for
employment despite their education and skills.
Volunteering with organisations working with the deaf, Dhruv
witnessed the poor standards of living resulting from this lack of
income.
Dhruv's solution is to launch a courier service run by under-privileged
deaf adults in every major metro in India. The 'Mirakle Courier' pilot
in Mumbai already employs 50 people suffering hearing loss.

9. Changemakers
Those who cannot just accept what is wrong and make every possible
step to change the way the society functions
Anshu Gupta
Anshu Gupta is a social innovator par excellence. He has not
only identified social problems that are outside the radar
screens of most NGOs and Government funding agencies, he
has also been able to structure imaginative solutions to
pressing social issues by recycling urban waste resources such
as clothing and school materials.
GOONJ (which means “Echo” in Hindi) was founded by Anshu
in 1998 with only 67 units of clothing. Now its impact
reverberates in 21 states of India with over 40,000 kgs of
material being processed every month.

10. Arvind Kejriwal
Kejriwal joined the Indian Revenue Service in 1995.In February
2006, he voluntarily resigned from the IRS as Joint Commissioner in IT
Department. After voluntary resignation from job, he founded
Parivartan, a Delhi based citizens’ movement which works on
ensuring a just, transparent and accountable governance.
In December 2006, Kejriwal along with Manish Sisodia and
Abhinandan Sekhri started Public Cause Research Foundation, which
works for promoting better local self governance and RTI related
campaigns

11. Bushan Punani
"Blind People's Association (BPA)" who is an MBA from IIM, but
decided to see if management principles could be applied to the social
sectors and create a change, which he did with BPA.

12. The Spiritual Capitalists
These are highly educated guys from IIT's and IIM's who felt that
the service to others and the purity of the self is the way
to achieve eternal liberation from this cycle of birth and
death, thus renounced their material world.
Vinayak Lohani – born 1978
IIM Calcutta graduate turned his back on corporate India to do
something of service to humanity
"Parivaar Ashram" - a residential facility for orphans, tribals and
the daughters of prostitutes
Inspired by spiritual and humanistic ideals of Sri Ramakrishna and
Swami Vivekananda, decided to devote his entire life for serving
‘Divine in Man’ as taught by Swami Vivekananda.

13. Madhu Pandit Dasa – Born 1956
Student of IIT ,Madhu Pandit came close to committing suicide
then he discovered krishna and embraced the spiritual path
"Akshaya Patra" from ISKON Bangalore who feeds one million
hungry children every day, in and around bangalore

14. These stories say one thing loud and clear..
CHANGE STARTS WITH ONE PERSON ,AND THAT
ONE PERSON COULD BE SOMEONE NEXT DOOR
SOMEONE LIKE YOU