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Signs Of Light: Good News From South Asia
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| The Mahatma and the Poet |
"Between 1915 and 1941, Mahatma Gandhi -- who was assassinated 65 years ago -- exchanged a series of letters with Indian poet, philosopher, and celebrated creative spirit Rabindranth Tagore, debating such subjects as truth, freedom, democracy, courage, education, and the future of humanity as India struggled for its independence...These letters are unique in that they were private in nature but public in manifestation -- Tagore wrote in the Indian Nationalist intelligentsia forum Modern Review and Gandhi in his own political journal, Young India -- and their spirit of mutual respect and measured response was antithetical to how such a debate might unfold today, if carried out in the public forum of blogs and online commentary." Maria Popova shares more.
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Posted: Feb 7, 2013)
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| Random Hacks of Kindness - Building Technology Solutions For A Better World |
Random Hacks of Kindness provides a platform for geeks from all over the world to come together and utilise their combined technological prowess in creating innovative open source solutions for challenges facing humanity, both locally and globally. In India, techies can join in the hackathons held in Bangalore or Pune.
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Source: BetterIndia,
Posted: Feb 6, 2013)
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| Making A Difference in Chennai |
Make a Difference is a youth-focused organization that is trying to bridge the gap in education and empowering young people. A Photo Essay follows.
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Source: BetterIndia,
Posted: Jan 29, 2013)
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| Rainwater to the Rescue |
Revival of rainwater harvesting structures quenches the thirst of a village on the edge of Thar desert in India.
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Source: DownToEarth,
Posted: Jan 23, 2013)
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| Serving in Silence for 90 Years |
What began as a modest vehicle for philanthropic activities has today grown into a massive service institution. A look at Guild of Service.
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Source: The HIndu,
Posted: Jan 15, 2013)
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| A Friend of the Vultures |
Vulture population may be fast declining, but there is Dilsher Khan to save them.
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Source: The Weekend Leader,
Posted: Jan 9, 2013)
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| Joggers Spread Word of Peace |
From 10 year old children to 70 years old men, around 200 people took part in a jogging exercise for spreading peace in Assam, India.
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Source: Times of India,
Posted: Jan 1, 2013)
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| Community Heroes of Kolar |
The town of Kolar in Karnataka, India might have lost its golden sheen, but its marginalised communities are rising in unprecedented ways.
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Source: BetterIndia,
Posted: Dec 25, 2012)
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| Banding Together, for Their Rights |
Tribal women in Uttarakhand are standing up for their community rights, and resisting the dispossession of their lands by a nexus between powerful landlords and the government machinery. Puja Awasthi reports.
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Source: IndiaTogether,
Posted: Dec 18, 2012)
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| A Friend To Children With Cerebral Palsy And Related Disabilities |
Shishu Sarothi is an award-winning NGO based in Assam, reaching out to children with cerebral palsy and related disorders. The care and love given to these children was apparent to the author, when she spent a summer interning there, and came away with memories that will never fade. These children are coming to Delhi to [...]
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Source: BetterIndia,
Posted: Dec 10, 2012)
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| When Street Kids Turned Street Artists |
For most Indians, street children are cruel reminders of how kind life has been to us. For French television filmmaker Vincent Lauth, street children are a canvas to show how great a healer art really is.
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Source: The Alternative,
Posted: Dec 4, 2012)
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| Doctoring a Barren Land |
Dr. Ram Kataria has dedicated 12 years of his life in converting a barren patch of land in the parched interiors of Maharashtra into an oasis using innovative and indigenous methods of conservation and sustenance. What’s more, he has many more ideas for inclusive growth including the creation of a school for rural change-makers. Meet [...]
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Source: BetterIndia,
Posted: Nov 27, 2012)
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| A Fruit Seller's Indian Education Dream |
Harekala Hajabba, an illiterate fruit vendor in southern India who struggled to build a primary and high school from his savings for the village children.
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Source: BBC,
Posted: Nov 27, 2012)
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| Protecting Daughters With Courage and Compassion |
There are women, and also some men, who have adopted and cared for abandoned little girls despite their own dire conditions, and many times against the wishes of their family.
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Source: BetterIndia,
Posted: Nov 20, 2012)
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| Internet on Wheels in Rural Bangladesh |
Amina Begum had never seen a computer until a few years ago, but now she's on Skype regularly with her husband. A woman on a bicycle brings the Internet to her.
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Source: NDTV,
Posted: Nov 10, 2012)
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| A Comfortable Shelter on Wheels |
The seat of the rickshaw can be converted into a comfortable bed at night. There are other benefits like a mosquito net, mobile charger, light and FM radio as well.
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Source: DownToEarth,
Posted: Nov 6, 2012)
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| A Home Of Hope for the Mentally Challenged |
Asha Niketan in Bangalore is a home for the mentally challenged that is structured like a family unit where the members share love and joy with each other.
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Source: BetterIndia,
Posted: Oct 30, 2012)
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| Ability in Disability |
For the last 52 years, APD has worked on the all-round rehabilitation of economically marginalized people with disabilities in India.
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Source: APD-India,
Posted: Oct 24, 2012)
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| Putting A Weed to Good Use |
Lantana Craft Centres run by ATREE in India have trained over 350 craftspeople in lantana craft. 80% of these craftspeople are women.
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Source: atree.org,
Posted: Oct 17, 2012)
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| LOCOST: Medicines for the Common Man |
LOCOST is a collective effort, started by a group of like-minded people many of whom were doctors practising community medicine in remote rural areas.
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Source: The Alternative,
Posted: Oct 10, 2012)
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