Shubha Mudgal was ecently speaking at a funtion in Pune. She recalled her memories when she used to go to Pandit Jitendra Abhisheki for singing tutions. Her son was quite young then and at times it would be painful to leave a crying son home and learn music. Mrs. Vidya Abhisheki sensed her state and asked her to get her son along. Till music tution was going on Vidya Abhisheki would play with Subha's son. Its only because of this understanding and love by Mrs Vidya Abhisheki that Shubha Mudgal could take her music lessons.
In today's era of formalitities and 'whats in it for me?' etc , it might be a hearty and worthy act to emulate
Saturday, February 27, 2010
Tuesday, February 23, 2010
Award for couple working for AIDS affected children in rural India
Mr Santosh Pawar and Ms Ujjwalaa Pawar, a couple working in Sangmner (north of Pune), Maharashtra, India, has received award for their social work. These two are founders of an NGO named as Self-Motivated Social Developement. In 1999, they have started a hostel near Sangamner for AIDS affected children.
This award is being confered annually for last 9 years to persons doing work in the field of AIDS prevention and support to AIDS affected people.
This award is being confered annually for last 9 years to persons doing work in the field of AIDS prevention and support to AIDS affected people.
Monday, February 15, 2010
Tatas learn to innovate and democratise it too . . . oh really !
A water filetr commerically selling at Rs1000/- is not all by accident. There is a culture being developed and nurtured. See the link :
http://www.business-standard.com/india/news/tatas-learn-to-innovate/384997/
DO you agree?
http://www.business-standard.com/india/news/tatas-learn-to-innovate/384997/
DO you agree?
Girl drop-out rates drops in Bihar, India
Fortunately, not the entire ASER report is gloom and doom. One of the brighter moments in it is the fact that in Bihar, the state considered a basket case on most counts, the dropout rate for girls in the 11-14 age group has reduced from 17.6 per cent in 2006 to 6 per cent in 2009. So Bihar must be doing something right. In fact, one of the striking sights in Bihar today is of girls on bicycles, given by the government if they clear Standard VIII, going to the nearest high school.
The desire to ensure that children get a good education runs deep in most Indian families. Parents will sacrifice and save to invest in their children's future. Even poor families, including the homeless with no secure shelter, find a way of sending their children to school. The increase in the enrolment rate in India - 96 per cent of children between the ages of 6-14 are enrolled in school, government and private - is proof of that.
What urgently needs to be tackled is the quality of education, basic facilities like toilets and running water, and transport, particularly for girls. Even this will not suffice unless there is a notable change in the status accorded teachers who ultimately decide whether and what children learn. Instead of the inordinate amount of attention that continues to be paid to institutes of higher learning, or private institutions that promise to prepare rich children for studies abroad, something much more simple and basic can and needs to be done to educate India and Indians
The desire to ensure that children get a good education runs deep in most Indian families. Parents will sacrifice and save to invest in their children's future. Even poor families, including the homeless with no secure shelter, find a way of sending their children to school. The increase in the enrolment rate in India - 96 per cent of children between the ages of 6-14 are enrolled in school, government and private - is proof of that.
What urgently needs to be tackled is the quality of education, basic facilities like toilets and running water, and transport, particularly for girls. Even this will not suffice unless there is a notable change in the status accorded teachers who ultimately decide whether and what children learn. Instead of the inordinate amount of attention that continues to be paid to institutes of higher learning, or private institutions that promise to prepare rich children for studies abroad, something much more simple and basic can and needs to be done to educate India and Indians
Friday, February 12, 2010
Where Three Dreams Cross
London's Whitechapel Gallery is currently featuring 'Where Three Dreams Cross,' an exhibition of photography from India, Pakistan and Bangladesh. The show says a lot not only about the three countries, but also about Britain today.
The ambition in 'Where Three Dreams Cross' is both to be admired and treated with caution. Dealing with a land mass larger than Western Europe and a population of over 1.5 billion people is a challenge, especially with the complicated family history of Bangladesh, India, and Pakistan. It seems bound to disappoint by missing some particular event, region or body. So the fact that it does not is testament to the skill of the photographers and curators involved. It is not curated by border or nation.
Anita Khemka’s photographs of Jabalpur Station in India show the exuberance and anarchy of the railway station as market, bazaar and human playground, which anyone who has been to South Asia will recognise.
It is a history of our shared, not separate, cultures. This is an exhibition not just about Bangladesh, India and Pakistan, but the history of Britain.
For complete news please go to:
http://www.dawn.com/wps/wcm/connect/dawn-content-library/dawn/news/culture/03-where-three-dreams-cross-a+stunning-success-ss-02
The ambition in 'Where Three Dreams Cross' is both to be admired and treated with caution. Dealing with a land mass larger than Western Europe and a population of over 1.5 billion people is a challenge, especially with the complicated family history of Bangladesh, India, and Pakistan. It seems bound to disappoint by missing some particular event, region or body. So the fact that it does not is testament to the skill of the photographers and curators involved. It is not curated by border or nation.
Anita Khemka’s photographs of Jabalpur Station in India show the exuberance and anarchy of the railway station as market, bazaar and human playground, which anyone who has been to South Asia will recognise.
It is a history of our shared, not separate, cultures. This is an exhibition not just about Bangladesh, India and Pakistan, but the history of Britain.
For complete news please go to:
http://www.dawn.com/wps/wcm/connect/dawn-content-library/dawn/news/culture/03-where-three-dreams-cross-a+stunning-success-ss-02
Thursday, February 11, 2010
Rainwater Harvesting @railway station - a step is t aken
http://www.indiatogether.org/2010/jan/env-ankola.htm
Ankola railway station is the first along the Konkan Railway route to implement rainwater harvesting. Pic: Farmland Rain Harvesting.
The station has two open wells in its premises. They dry up by December end. As such five months a year, each drop of water this railway station uses comes from outside. Years later, one after another, two bore wells were dug. Both of them went upto 300 feet depth. But neither borewell was even partially successful.
It seems highly likely that if proper rain harvesting is done, this railway station can become self-sufficient in water in just two years. But then, there is a big ‘if’ too. If the staff and public take good care of these systems
Ankola railway station is the first along the Konkan Railway route to implement rainwater harvesting. Pic: Farmland Rain Harvesting.
The station has two open wells in its premises. They dry up by December end. As such five months a year, each drop of water this railway station uses comes from outside. Years later, one after another, two bore wells were dug. Both of them went upto 300 feet depth. But neither borewell was even partially successful.
It seems highly likely that if proper rain harvesting is done, this railway station can become self-sufficient in water in just two years. But then, there is a big ‘if’ too. If the staff and public take good care of these systems
Wednesday, February 10, 2010
Programme to incorporate Ayurved in rural women's healthcare
With an aim to ensure that ayurveda is accessible to the rural community, especially women, efforts are being made to make the discipline a part of primary health centres and create awareness about it.
A programme has been conceptualised to create awareness, clear myths and generate suggestions for policy formulations for incorporating ayurveda in National Rural Healthcare systems for women.
A programme has been conceptualised to create awareness, clear myths and generate suggestions for policy formulations for incorporating ayurveda in National Rural Healthcare systems for women.
India's Book Restorers
http://www.dawn.com/wps/wcm/connect/dawn-content-library/dawn/news/culture/14-indias-book-restorers-saving-the-past-for-the-future-zj-09
In the basement of the University of Mumbai's Fort Campus library, a towering Gothic-style cathedral to knowledge built by the British in the mid-19th century, half-a-dozen people are hard at work, reports AFP.
The 2.5 million rupee project began early last year and is nearing completion. So far 100,000 pages — or around 300 books — have been digitised to UNESCO standards and 88,000 pages cut, cleaned, laminated with chemical-free Japanese tissue paper and rebound in red leather covers with gold-embossed lettering.
Mumbai's Anglican cathedral, St Thomas's, for example, has birth records dating back to the 17th century
The giant Tata Group conglomerate is also involved in helping the prestigious Asiatic Society of Mumbai restore its 200,000-strong collection.
Some 3,200 books have been restored there, including a manuscript of Dante's “Divine Comedy”, a copy of Charles Darwin's “On the Origin of Species” and delicate illustrated Buddhist palm leaf manuscripts dating from the 13th century.
An adopt-a-book scheme has been running at the 195-year-old institution since 1991 for individuals to donate cash towards the cost of restoration.
Galileo's 1632 work “Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems”, one of the many volumes gathering dust in the society's dark, musty basement, is to be restored with finance from local Italian business people.
In the basement of the University of Mumbai's Fort Campus library, a towering Gothic-style cathedral to knowledge built by the British in the mid-19th century, half-a-dozen people are hard at work, reports AFP.
The 2.5 million rupee project began early last year and is nearing completion. So far 100,000 pages — or around 300 books — have been digitised to UNESCO standards and 88,000 pages cut, cleaned, laminated with chemical-free Japanese tissue paper and rebound in red leather covers with gold-embossed lettering.
Mumbai's Anglican cathedral, St Thomas's, for example, has birth records dating back to the 17th century
The giant Tata Group conglomerate is also involved in helping the prestigious Asiatic Society of Mumbai restore its 200,000-strong collection.
Some 3,200 books have been restored there, including a manuscript of Dante's “Divine Comedy”, a copy of Charles Darwin's “On the Origin of Species” and delicate illustrated Buddhist palm leaf manuscripts dating from the 13th century.
An adopt-a-book scheme has been running at the 195-year-old institution since 1991 for individuals to donate cash towards the cost of restoration.
Galileo's 1632 work “Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems”, one of the many volumes gathering dust in the society's dark, musty basement, is to be restored with finance from local Italian business people.
Tuesday, February 9, 2010
Telugu Cultural Museum
A Telugu cultural museum, depicting Telugu culture, history and arts from the period of Satavahanas to the freedom struggle, is coming up atop Kailasagiri in Visakhapatnam.
The Telugu Culture and Heritage Museum, a joint endeavour of Visakhapatnam Urban Development Authority( VUDA) and the World Telugu Federation (WTF),will be set up
The World Telugu Federation will showcase the evolution of Telugu language and culture. 32 to 38 episodes would be designed and placed in the museum in the form of artistic displays.
The evolutionary stages of Telugu language and culture starting from the period of Sathavahana to the present century would be brought live which will educate even the illiterate and non-Telugu people.
The Telugu Culture and Heritage Museum, a joint endeavour of Visakhapatnam Urban Development Authority( VUDA) and the World Telugu Federation (WTF),will be set up
The World Telugu Federation will showcase the evolution of Telugu language and culture. 32 to 38 episodes would be designed and placed in the museum in the form of artistic displays.
The evolutionary stages of Telugu language and culture starting from the period of Sathavahana to the present century would be brought live which will educate even the illiterate and non-Telugu people.
Saturday, February 6, 2010
blind man becomes manager is bank
A man, blind by birth, persistently followed up with his own study to become a law graduate. He was taken in by Bank of Maharashtra, one of the leading nationalised banks in India. Now he has been promoted to the grade of Assistant Manager.
This is a real big feat in a country like India, where people with special physical and mental needs may not be given due consideration.
This is a real big feat in a country like India, where people with special physical and mental needs may not be given due consideration.
Sunlight Is The Best Disifectant
http://epw.in/epw/uploads/articles/14391.pdf
This is an article in Economic and Political Weekly on declaration of assets by SC and HC judges. A Delhi HC Signle Judge order allowing for such declaration was challenged by SC secretariat. A full bench of Delhi HC, headed by Justice A P Shah, upheld the earlier order.
This is an article in Economic and Political Weekly on declaration of assets by SC and HC judges. A Delhi HC Signle Judge order allowing for such declaration was challenged by SC secretariat. A full bench of Delhi HC, headed by Justice A P Shah, upheld the earlier order.
60 people battle giants
Sixty people, each from different profession, have come together in Mumbai to battle mobile giants against illegal installations of mobile towers. They came from all walks of life, from across Maharashtra, and met up for the first time in a public meeting at Mumbai's Shivaji Park. They exchanged notes, bonded, and vowed to work together. Each of the 60 people gathered under the Mobile Tower Grievance Forum had their own story to tell. They told stories of their battle against illegal installation of mobile towers, of money power, and of cancer, brain tumour, skin rashes and insomnia caused by the towers erected atop apartment buildings. The narrations cemented the group and the meeting culminated in an action plan that included selecting a 10-doctor team to document the impact of radiation from towers on people’s health.
The law is clear in this:
before installing mobile towers near residential areas, companies have to get a no-objection certificate from the residents’ cooperative society and permission from the municipal corporation and the pollution control board. There should be a gap of 36 metres from human habitation, the law stipulated.
The law is clear in this:
before installing mobile towers near residential areas, companies have to get a no-objection certificate from the residents’ cooperative society and permission from the municipal corporation and the pollution control board. There should be a gap of 36 metres from human habitation, the law stipulated.
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