TEDxCNS Pune Youth / 8 September 2026
From knowledge
to life.
What we know matters. What we do with it gives it meaning.
Chatrabhuj Narsee School · Amanora Park Town, Pune
Beyond knowing.
Into living.
At TEDxCNS Pune Youth, Vipul brought together the different chapters of his life: a young cashier, an engineer, a father, a cricketer, and an author. Each identity offered a different way of seeing the world.
His session, From Knowledge to Life, explored how the frames around information influence what we accept as knowledge. He invited the audience to look beyond a confident answer: who framed it, what perspective might be missing, and what happens when we act on it?
Drawing on the relationship between perspective, knowledge, and conduct, he asked how learning becomes a lived practice. Curiosity led him to ancient cosmology; years of research and personal experience then became the imaginative world of The Jambudveep Series.
“Let AI do work for your brain.
But never let it do work
of your brain.”
Vipul Shah · From Knowledge to Life
Three questions
to carry forward.
- Who framed this information?Notice the lens through which an idea reaches you.
- What perspective is missing?Make room for curiosity before settling on certainty.
- What happens if I act on it?Connect knowledge with responsibility and everyday conduct.
AI can help us research, organise, and explore. The responsibility to question, imagine, and decide remains our own. This account draws on Vipul’s talk script.
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An idea.
A room full of possibilities.
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