IntroducingTHE PLUS ISSUE NO. 01 | DEC 2019 ROOTED AND FREE www.igenplus.com introduction hello. 2 Dear Readers, Aloha! Welcome on board to the maiden edition of ‘The Plus’. Through this avant-garde monthly, we hope to cover all aspects that appeal to teenagers, ranging from interesting articles on food, music, education, and the latest buzz- words to introspective testimonials. This is meant to be a fun and engaging read. The articles have been sliced and diced to suit the flitting attention span of GenZ. The magazine is an effort by IGenPlus to reach out to teenagers as their comfort food and go-to. We are within your arm’s reach and we want to be more than your friends. In the pages that follow you will discover the kind of programs we offer, a review of the work we do and some quirky articles to get your brain cells working! We also invite contributions to our magazine from students (13 to 19 years) from all over the globe on practically anything that they are willing to share. (It can be a fan fiction on the Game of Thrones or even an opinion on whether you think air pollution is an issue at all!) . We are here for you and we are listening. Yet again, welcome on board! introduction 2 rooted and free 3 1 meet the team 5 gig economy 9 good food 33 in convo with 15 movie review 36 15 37 book review 37 dance 22 what’s next? 39 heritage 23 teenspiration 42 26 music 26 39 this day, that year 30 letters from past 32 CONTENTS 20 3 rooted and free IGenPlus creates opportunities for young students to be aware, informed and evolved to make their own decisions. It is about developing leadership skills in teenagers by promoting nouveau ways of thinking by mixing Yogic Thinking, Design Thinking, and Exponential Thinking. We want to be harbingers of change and want to be the plus to the normal ways of life. Through YogiPlus, we help the students to unearth the fullest potential of the mind, body, and spirit. This will develop their personality while focusing on character development, emotional growth, and This festive season we are excited to present mindfulness. With us, students will not to you a compendium of all things crazy. only define the purpose of life but also Our capsule sized articles are meant for develop a sense of service, a sustainable Now, new innovations are giving birth the new-age reader. We are here for an lifestyle, and become culturally sensitive to unexplored opportunities. Exponential aurora, much in line with what IGenPlus and inclusive. Plus will equip the teens with the skills to stands for. We believe in changing for the utilize them and will prepare for the needs better. We believe in creating a generation Design thinking is the new buzz word of the future. of compassionate and creative leaders. but it is an inherent ability that can be While the school system is instrumental in nurtured. Through our curriculum in We are fusing the universal principles and doing that, we recognize that it falls short Creative Plus, students will go beyond values from our ancient wisdom with in more ways than one and we are that memorizing facts and will learn contemporary insights by mixing the “plus”. We believe in the rootedness of meta-skills that amplify the mind power benefits of the practices from the past to one’s personality and in freedom of and make them more creative. This will face the challenges of the present. The thought and expression. We believe in the help them think like an entrepreneur and idea is simple - to inculcate the values, constancy of change and the need to design ideas that can solve social practices, ethos, and spirituality in them upgrade ourselves, without putting our problems rather than cribbing about them. with a clear explanation about the benefits values at stake. Our values are the beacons Including areas like intuition and creativity, in their day-to-day living. Teenagers today that guide us and through our existence, conscious leadership, entrepreneurial need scientific explanations and answers we hope to bring more people on board skills, goal setting and more. to all their ‘why’s. We will provide those. with our ambitious undertaking. Being the first edition, we would like to PANKHURI MITTAL Program Manager introduce our wonderful team that has MEET been working hard to constantly put A postgraduate in English Literature, she loves the things up that might interest you. sombreness of winter and having deep discussions. THE She loves the familiar comfort of good words and Although at IGenPlus, we are not gender tends to lose herself in them. Like water, she is willing -biased, somehow since our inception, the to imbibe and change her course as the situation TEAM office is run mostly by women! demands. Communication Designer MUNMUN AGGARWAL A postgraduate in Communication Design from Pearl Academy. She has her hands’ full managing and designing the content we generate. A true HARI KIRAN fashionista and practical, she is fascinated by the intricacies of design. Always eager to learn and VADLAMANI explore: she believes in absolute clarity and flexibility. Co-Founder and Mentor DIVYA VERMA Relationships Manager He is based out of Singapore. He is a social entrepreneur and the founder of The typical “Sharmaji ki beti”. She is a graduate Indic Academy, an institution that is seek from SRCC in Economics. A rocket, ready to -ing to build a renaissance based on Indic set-off. She enjoys the thrill of managing projects Civilisational thought. and can be very compelling with her work. She considers herself to be a coconut: tough outside, and soft inside, and we can’t agree more with her. Research Fellow ANANYA FILBERT After MPhil from IIT Bombay, she is pursuing Ph.D. from JNU. She loves to solve sudokus and read any- SOUMYA thing that interests her in the first three pages. She often freaks out about time and is always way too early (or too late) for everything. She has OCD AGGARWAL when it comes to organizing. CEO and Co-Founder She considers herself more of a POOJA MANI Program Manager team-mate than a boss. She is on-board with new ideas and believes in making the After graduation from NMIMS, a unique fellowship work space as positive as possible. A course in Youth Empowerment & Philosophy brought mentor and anchor, her equanimity keeps her to IGP. She is our one-(wo)man-army operating the IGP family together! from Mumbai, Always willing to learn, engage and improve. She loves to network and reach-out and can easily finish packets of banana chips. +91 98175 00105 www.IGENPLUS.com keep https://www.twitter.com/IGENPLUS https://www.facebook.com/IGENPLUS https://www.instagram.com/I_GEN_PLUS a https://www.linkedin.com/company/IGENPLUS https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC03F_2B6ge_W7R_sujhb2yQ tab 9 gig economy WHATT?! Ga..Ga..GIG ECONOMY Vishesh manages his work by turning up at his workplace thrice a week. He curates content and designs websites for a living. He loves remaining grungy and escapes to the mountains when city life gets too much for him. He likes that there isn’t a boring schedule for his life, but that he can work whenever he wants to. Shaina loves to eat bagels and she would trade anything in the Of course, there are deadlines to be world to sit in her room and wolf honored, but they don’t dictate his life. them down with cold coffee. She enjoys binge-watching online He dreams of opening a company with series. She enjoys her work too, his friends someday. But he needs to have which requires her to design industrial exposure and skill training videos for companies. She before he could do so. Vishesh has also maintains a portfolio of her signed for some advanced online courses work. She charges her clients on coding. based on the kind of work that is expected from her and Are you done with time-tables governing negotiate accordingly. She your lives? Dreaming of a job where you doesn’t have to go to any office can work in your pajamas? Interested to as such, and every day is work pursue the career of your dreams without from home. She is as good as the hassle of rushing to work? And what her last project. She advertises if all of this was possible in the comfort of through word of mouth and by your home? capturing the online space. Welcome to the ‘gig economy’. Wait, now what’s that? The Merriam Webster dictionary defines REAL the ‘gig economy’ as an economic activity that involves the use of ‘temporary’ or ‘freelance workers’. It involves employing PEOPLE contract workers or freelancers for specialized and piecemeal tasks. So, basically, it’s bye-bye to the boring REAL time-tables that have been governing your lives until now! (Phew!) The gig economy is a way to make work TALK. more fun (well, kinda, but it still continues to be work) and incorporate creativity into an otherwise mundane workspace (now, that’s more like it). The burgeoning of the gig economy can be linked to the penetration of technology in the production process. With the onset of technology, big companies prefer to “I have not continued in academics after serve as platforms that moderate and my Master's as I felt I needed some industry mediate the procurement of labour from experience if I am to make any meaningful the pool of job seekers “just-in-time” for contribution to my area of study.