A mass media student at Jai Hind College, Chakrabarty is juggling a career with the World Federation of the United Nations Association in New York and managing a garage company, Electronic Youth Media, in Mumbai.
Even Google started off in a small garage, says Samyak Chakrabarty
While most college goers think youth is the time to party, it is 18-year-old Samyak Chakrabarty who is having a whale of a time.
A mass media student at Jai Hind College, Chakrabarty is juggling a career with the World Federation of the United Nations Association in New York and managing a garage company, Electronic Youth Media, in Mumbai.
And don’t be misled by the term ‘garage company’.
“Even Google started off in a small garage,” pointed out Chakrabarty.
“We are aiming at an investment capital of over Rs10 crore by December 2007 by offering what I call ‘youth marketing tool robots’. The ‘robots’ are tools that procreate marketing ideas for companies,” he added.
That’s not all. Chakrabarty is the youth coordinator for the Indian Federation of the United Nations Associations, chairman of India’s first productive networking site, Youthportal, founder chairman of the Indian Youth Conclave and an intellectual youth empowerment organisation.
Chakrabarty’s fascination with the United Nations (UN) started when organising Model United Nations in elite schools became a rage five years ago.
“I was not the best student in my school, Jasudben ML, Khar and hence wasn’t sent to participate in a model UN meet. A year later, in 2005, I organised the Indian International Model UN, which today is the largest model UN in the world,” said the college-goer.
“But beyond a point Model UNs don’t achieve anything. What is required is action,” he clarified.
“The truth is that our current government has not been able to address our problems. So I want to create a parallel system — a system that aims at offering solutions instead of formulating polices and laws,” said Chakrabarty.
He is currently involved in Project Youth Outreach, which aims at conducting an analytical survey of over 10,000 students to unearth the malpractices in the education system.
“The Millennium Development Goals Summit 2008 which addresses eight goals — like poverty, HIV/AIDS, climate change, water harvesting etc. Since it is an action-based summit, every person participating in it will shoot a documentary on an issue,” explained Chakrabarty.
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