Film: Voice. The view from behind a lectern: marked-up speaking copy, a microphone, empty seats in the dark.
Interests / 03
Speaking to a room
Tours and speeches, in English and Gujarati.
As a youth ambassador at the BAPS mandir, Aariv gives tours to visitors and speaks on the stage of the new main hall, where the audience runs to hundreds.
On October 3 he gives Akhand Bhakti, a speech for the Mahant Swami Maharaj celebration, to an audience expected to reach 800 to 1,000.
During the local celebration of America’s 250th anniversary, he was one of the youth who welcomed local officials, including the mayors of Stafford, Sugar Land and Missouri City.
The hardest part, he says, is keeping the flow and the delivery consistent across two languages, Gujarati and English.