This month (December 2017), it is l

This month (December 2017), it is launching its most ambitious project yet, “TED Talks India: Nayi Soch,” an eight-part TV series that will be broadcast in Hindi. It is TED’s first non-English TV program, and it is expected to reach millions of people. When designer and architect Richard Saul Wurman established TED in 1984, he called it the dinner party he always wanted to have but could not. Wurman united technology, entertainment, and design into one multiday event. He called it “TED.” Wurman and his assistant organized the first TED conference for 300 of Wurman’s closest friends and colleagues. If someone flubbed a line or lost their way entirely, Wurman, who sat onstage for every talk, would sometimes leave his chair and stand directly behind the speaker. It was his quiet way of saying, “Time to wrap things up.”