Sankalp e-Patrika
Volume 16
- Abhivyakti - The Annual Sankalp Magazine
- Kargil Vijay Diwas: Blood Donation Drive
- World Blood Donors day
- Bipin Chandra Pal
- Kaziranga National Park: Home to some unique species:
Kaziranga is a national park in the Golaghat and Nagaon districts of Assam, India.It is a World Heritage Site, and two-thirds of the world's Great One-horned Rhinoceroses live in the park. Kaziranga has the highest density of tigers among protected areas in the world and was declared a Tiger Reserve in 2006. The park has large breeding populations of elephants, water buffalo and swamp deer. Kaziranga is recognised as an Important Bird Area by Birdlife International for conservation of avifaunal species. The park has achieved notable success in wildlife conservation compared to other protected areas in India. Located on the edge of the Eastern Himalaya biodiversity hotspot, the park combines high-species diversity and visibility.<!--break-->
- Do you support the UPA governement for Nuclear Deal...
- A poor bullock cart owner, he is best known donor
- The Daffodil principle...Stop waiting...
- Bangalore Blood Banks Map
- Vijay Karnataka: Sankalp provides blood availability information
- Do you suppor the UPA governement for N-Deal
Volume 15
- A whole new school
- On World Blood Donation Day - from Sankalp
- MSRMBDS Blood donation drive at MSRIT
- Chhatrapati Shivaji
- Something beautiful
- Sankalp's 5th Birthday
- Do Indians still put regions before the entire nation?
- Are the recent protests throughout the nation against the hike in fuel prices justified?
- The Smiling Buddha @ Pokhran:
Pokhran is a city and a municipality located in Jaisalmer district in the Indian state of Rajasthan. It is a remote location in the Thar Desert region and served as the test site for India's first underground nuclear weapon detonation.Pokhran shot into International Limelight on September 7, 1972 when the then Indian Prime Minister Indira Gandhi gave authorization to the scientists at the Bhabha Atomic Research Centre (BARC), Trombay to detonate an indegenously designed nuclear device. Throughout its development, the device was formally called the "Peaceful Nuclear Explosive", but it was usually referred to as the Smiling Buddha.
Volume 14
- Blood Awareness week at Ammani College
- 3rd ITPL Blood Donation Drive
- BMTC as life saviours:

Next time you are travelling by a BMTC Bus, you are very likely to see the life saving mantra - "Looking for Blood - Dial 080-1062 (in Karnataka)". You are very likely to see college students keenly tying red bands around their arms proclaiming to be a Life Saver. Not to forget the Brand New PCs which are coming their way. People from all parts of town are helping the city battle with teh summer shortage by organizing camps. read more to know it all :)
- Vijaya Karnataka - Call Sankalp for Blood: It is impossible to move around the city in search of blood with the existing traffic congestion. Even though the details of the blood banks are available, it is very difficult to know if the required blood group is available in the required number of units. By the time all these details are estimated in each and every blood bank, there are chances of risking the patient's life uring an emergency. To sort out these problems, a joint initiative of Sankalp India Foundation and Comprehensive Trauma Consortium introduce a centralised blood helpline number (080) 1062. It is an information centre which provides the blood availability information via a single number throughout the city.
- Introducing two new websites from Sankalp:
While the world is busy with its own things, Sankalp volunteers are busy in their own way. This time, by designing two new websites (Blood de India and Team red) having specific roles. Blood de India, is a website, which aims to have all the donors all over the country access one site for anything related to blood donation. Team red, is another site for all volunteers from all organizations and institutions, where the blood donation drive occurs, to have a common platform for discussions of the same and other related issues. Both the websites are still under development. Details will soon be given :) - Linguistic Division of States
- A Date:

"It was I who used to have to read the menu when you were small," she said.
"Then it's time that you relax and let me return the favor," I responded.
During the dinner, we had an agreeable conversation - nothing extraordinary,
but catching up on recent events of each other's life. We talked so much that we missed the movie.
- MSRIT camp on 4th April 2008
- What is the first phrase that comes to your mind when you hear about Sankalp?
- Helping Hand for School...
- Chanakya: India's first political "mastermind"
April came and went away so soon. Sankalp was moving steadily ahead with all then plans that had been laid out for this work period. It was a time of realization and work. Good thing to happen was that the Project plans did actually take shape, the targets became closer and April brought in loads of cheers and work to our little organization.
Volume 13
- BDO is expanding its wings!: BDO:
The Volunteers are involved in taking up and solving the blood requests (34 cases from 15th March to 31st March) and planning for the re-arrangement of the section on the site, www.sankalpindia.net. Apart from that, the Volunteers are now searching for possible blood search options throughout Karnataka.
- April 2008: Rakta Kranti and CTC Disha:
Rakta Kranti:
(a) Colleges: The Blood Awareness Week held at Sapthagiri college led the institution to organizing a fabulous blood donation drive. The camp in Sapthagiri College was held on 20th March. There were two Blood banks and the number of units collected were around 275 units. With this the Team Red in Sapthagiri College becomes the first to taken an organization through the complete cycle of awareness-education- motivation and then donation.
- One With Bhopal
- What relates a mango, a banyan tree and the Saka Calendar ?:
What relates a mango, a banyan tree and the Saka Calendar ? 

Did you get the relation right?
Yes - all three are Indian national Symbols! Get to know more about these National Symbols here. - It only takes a second:
A few days ago I got a call from my old college mate whom I haven't seen for a very long time. The topic, which was about all the good old times that we had and about his recent graduation, changed to a touching story when he started talking about his father.<!--break-->
His father's declining health made him to stay at the hospital. Because of his illness, his father suffered from imsomnia and often talking to himself. My friend, who had not been able to sleep for a few days as he had to keep watch of his father's condition, became irritated and told his father to keep silence and try to get some sleep. His father said that he really wanted to sleep well because he was very tired and told my friend to leave him alone in the hospital if he did not want to keep him company.
- Big Bazaars, Reliance Fresh, Mores and Fab Malls
- B R Ambedkar
- Blood Donation Camp in Sapthagiri College of Engg
- Farm Suicides In India
- MS Ramaiah Dental College Camp - 15 March
- Who is the coolest of them all?: Who do you think is the "Coolest" among the following: A Blood Donor, a platelet donor or a donor motivator. Cast your vote NOW.
- MSRIT camp on 4th April 2008
Volume 12
- BDO: Busy Bees: A busy phase, for all blood related volunteers, has begun. Following the start of semester in February, increased enthusiasm, better plans and works have been taken. Issues like drawbacks of previous semester and other problems were discussed along with their solutions and improvements. All volunteers will be given blood requests cases, including freshers who will get a good exposure this way. This requires the volunteers to be prepared all the time to take up cases and also balance with other things too, like studies. Everybody is to keep themselves updated on various issues regarding blood donation. Our website will soon be filtered of in-referenced and ambiguous reports.
- Sankalp : A Big Picture: Many of the Volunteers, particularly freshers and the Chennai Volunteers, knew of Sankalp but did not have the entire big picture. So this Sunday meeting was conducted, when the Chennai Volunteers came to Bangalore. As our Guest for the day, we had a person from MindTree, Mr. Abraham Moses (Head of Administration). The day started by giving the introduction about all the Sankalp branches (Rakta Kranti, Project Tiranga, CTC Disha, BDO and Financial Department) and activities handled. This included the past activities, present ones and the planned ones for future.
- March 2008: Blood Donation Camps and CTC Disha Publicity Running Full Steam: Rakta Kranti is the Sankalp way of trying to bring about a change in the situation of voluntary blood donations in the city of Bangalore. In terms of tasks performed, it looks pretty straightforward on paper. It is just increasing the number of blood donation camps. Colleges, companies, just any institution where people who want to make a change gather everyday. Putting this into reality is a challenge though. However, pushing the endeavor forward, Sankalp has a few more camps planned in the time to come. Read more to get to know where revolution is stepping in these days..
- The General Emergency 1975-77
- Food shorages on 60s and Green Revolution
- 'Here lived a great street sweeper who did his job well':
I had been working much too long on this job. I guess things could have been worse. I certainly wasn't doing hard labour. But going door to door asking questions as a representative of the federal government wasn't the most satisfying position either. It was August. It was hot. I had to wear a tie.
'Hello. My name is Bob Perks and we are doing a survey in this neighbourhood.'
'I'm not interested! Good bye!'
You can't imagine how many times I heard that. I finally caught on and began with.
- Right To Information Act
- Fighting terrorism and poverty - without guns!
- Should a donor be promised blood for free in case of need?
- CTC Disha Publicity - Stage 0 - Visit to Hospitals: LOOKING FOR BLOOD IN BANGALORE? CALL 1062. Sankalp has been publicizing about 1062 for a long time now, but somehow the message has not reached all ears and eyes. This time around Sankalp has adopted a new stratergy for publicity. Volunteers have planned visit to hospitals to take the message to doctors,patients, and in general any person who is around ususally in a hospital. This article describes the actions carried out by volunteers as they executed Phase 0 of the plan. Filled with energy, enthusiasm and a dream, read more to know what these your revolutionaries are upto now..
- March 2008: Rakta Kranti-Colleges and more
- Do you feel that the Union Budget for 2008 is good for the overall interest of the country?:
The recent Union Budget for our Nation was full of sops almost for everyone. A person finds it hard to understand how the government is planning to bring the money back to government coffers which it is planning to spend so generously. All of us agree that it is anothre poll gimick. But, in an overall context, do you think such budgets are good for the country.
We would love to see you comment in your opinion once you have voted!
- CTC Disha Publicity Phase 0 completed
- Bal Gangadhar Tilak
Volume 11
- The Dream Takes Shape
- Azadi Express in town
- Republic Day 2008:

Its was 6:30 in the morning, when most of the other were enjoying the sleep of National Holiday, Sankalp volunteer were busy to get ready to catch the bus. They were full of enthusiasm and energy to go out and celebrate our National Festival. As they do every year to spread the love and patriotism around.
This year, on the Republic Day, they decided to go with MindTree, one of the highly social responsible companies, with their TSA (Technical for Social Activity) team to visit a Sri Lankan Refugee School by the name of IGIA (Indira Gandhi Institute Academy). MindTree is supporting this organization from around last 8 year. It was a nice experience for all volunteer to interact with children and new people. We could not visit the old age home as we had to move to our next destination i.e. the Azadi Express.
- Heal The World : Hyderabad Times
- Health benefits of donating blood
- The Window:
Two men, both seriously ill, occupied the same hospital room. One man was allowed to sit up in his bed for an hour a day to drain the fluids from his lungs. His bed was next to the room's only window. The other man had to spend all his time flat on his back.
The men talked for hours on end. They spoke of their wives and families, their homes, their jobs, their involvement in the military service, where they had been on vacation. And every afternoon when the man in the bed next to the window could sit up, he would pass the time by describing to his roommate all the things he could see outside the window.
- Mission Siachen Volunteers at schools and colleges
- Fw: Read it.... important! Why I will buy Petrol?
- Sarojini Naidu
- India After Independence
- Why are fewer Indians joining the Armed forces?
Volume 10
- Soldiers in Siachen
- Remebering the Tsunami
- Waste for you - Life for someone - Do Share
- How to teach english???
- Senior Volunteer Feedback Report:
The growth of an organization depends upon the people who are leading them. We at Sankalp benchmark all our people on the following five parameters to be able to mark and measure the strengths and weakness of our people and to track the growth of the organization. There five parameters are responsiveness, teamwork, leadership, initiative and delivery. Recently we completed a comprehensive feedback survey where all the volunteers got a change to evaluate the senior volunteers who lead them.
Here are the results of the first formal Sankalp 'Senior Volunteer' Performance Evaluation Process.
- Blood Components : The Right Choice
- The Immortal:Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose
- Two New honourable member in Sankalp:
To strength the organization and learn from the experience from the people who has be a source of inspiration and energy to us we have decided to make a Board of advisor's for the Organization. This board will be composed of Honory Members who the people who have directly or indirectly guided us, and helped us with the larger vision that we are following today. Its was because of trust and support of these people that we have the courage to do the things which the world believes to be impractical.These people give us the strength to have faith in our own beliefs and give them shape.
- Story of 2 pots
- Project Tiranga volunteers at Shopping Malls !?
- Does your name appear on the electoral rolls?:
Some of us are guilty of a crime. A crime which is by no means small in the largest democracy of the world. We are committing a crime by NOT VOTING.
Please use this poll and the attached forum to discuss this issue.
If things are to change at the top level in our country, then the educated will have to lift up the banner and use the most powerful tool they have to shape the country - a Vote! Karnataka Assembly elections are around the corner. We will be choosing.. Choosing the people who will determine the way this state and this country takes in the coming 5 years.
Volume 9
- Mission Siachen
- Safe Diwali campaign
- Lal Bahadur Shastri - the Politician who made no money
- Are you God's wife?
- AIIMS mix-up, man given wrong blood:
This article is for those who throight blood of one group can be given to patients of other group.
NEW DELHI: This would rate among the most embarrassing slip-ups by the country's premier medical institute, AIIMS. In a horrible mix-up, the institute medics have transfused blood of a wrong blood group into a middle-aged man. The patient is now battling for life.
The 50-year-old patient, RN Tripathi, underwent a knee replacement surgery on October 17 during which he was reportedly given O+ blood instead of B+ after which he suffered acute renal failure. He has already had at least seven dialysis sessions and is still in bed number 4 in CT2 ICU, which is a cardiology intensive care unit of the institute.
- Blood transfused from relatives can be fatal - TA GVHD
- She died to give eye to her sons
- Should Professional Blood Donors be Jailed?
- Should the Indian Government have released militants in IC-814 hijacking case(24-12-1999)?
Volume 8
- Sankalp Pioneering Apheresis
- Camp 11@Hotel Management College
- 2 years of Kashmir earthquake
- Joining in of New Volunteers:
There is a special reason for excitement and enthusiasm in Sankalp Volunteers in the month of October. Bright young people, who have the implacable desire to make this world a better place join the organization and begin to carve their way for a revolution.
The co-operation and support of the Principal of MSRIT Dr Rajanikanth, ensures that each year we reach out to the first year people in a big way. The permissions were in and the stage was set. There were posters being made, strategies to visit classes were being drafted and energy was being pumped in to ensure that each first year at lest gets to know about the organization. The class talks that pour Volunteers went forward with gave us a good 250 new blood donors ready to take on the challenge.
- Aryabhatta
- That's the way!!
- What makes a good leader?:
The quest to find that magic potion that makes a perfect leader brought us t the idea of putting up a poll on sankalpindia.net. 9 traits of leaders were chosen from Harvard Business Review and we set up a poll that was to unravel what people want in their leaders.
The results were amazing. We got a one sided response to the poll with 52% respondents asking for Vision as the single most important leadership quality. Next followed Passion which received 12% of the votes.
8% respondents felt that the most important leadership trait were Judgement and the same percentage opted for Integrity and Knowledge. Creativity, Honesty, Charisma and good communication lost the race and were scarcely opted choices.
One of the respondents replied -"A leader is incomplete without any one of this quality." Read more comments by visiting the poll.
Read more about leadership traits here
- Revolutionary Who Kept Death at Bay till August 15, 1947
Volume 7
- Hyderabad Terrorist Attack
- Sardar Patel
- Donor Registration '07 at IISc:
The drive to recruit the 1st year students of IISC finally happened from 05 to 07 September, 2007. Last year after Sankalp recruited Voluntary Blood Donors from IISc, the best thing that happened was the formation of a fabulous Volunteer Team. We came up with IISc - Sankalp Wing which actively promoted Sankalp activities within IISc. This year too we got a fabulous response and we are hoping to bank on our database.
- Shaping of the Blood Mobile
- One year of CTC Disha
- Gift a sight @ ARM
- Eye Donation Awareness Programme at Applied Materials
- By which year do you see India as a developed nation?:
We wanted to see where does the youth of India see the country heading in next few years. And see the response! This is a time of raised optimism and high thinking.
Volume 6
- Fourth Visit to School.:
Education completes a man is a famous saying. How true!!. This is what makes me and you read this newsletter at the moment. Sankalp wishes to extend this opportunity to a lot more young lives. Strengthening the bond between the "Swami Vivekanand School" and "Sankalp" we got a invitation to join them on occasion of Independence day during their cultural celebration. Read on to know what the volunteers who visited the young kids experienced and how Sankalp wishes to play a role in the development of the school. What can we do to help shape these innocent lives? is what the society as a whole needs to think about and act.
- Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyaya
- Kaviswara - Prompt efforts towards studies..
- Share You Feelings on 60th year of our Independence
- India Independence Challenge - 2007:
India Independence Challenge is a chance for you to test how much you know about our country's freedom struggle. Meticulously designed to ensure maximum learning the quiz will unravel many forgotten aspects of the Indian Freedom Struggle and help in clearing the dust that settles in our minds over the great contribution of our freedom fighters.
Jai Hind.
- Independence Day 07 at Vivekanada School:
Volume 5
- Graduation Day for the Campaign Material:
There was a long felt need for good publicity material for the blood donation camps. Something was required to put an end to the monotony that prevails in today’s camps and make them more donors friendly. Months of research and preparation took the final shape in June. Sankalp released the first set of it’s Blood Donor Information Leaflets, Blood Donation Camp Posters, Banners and other publicity material.
- Dhyan Chand <The hockey Wizard of India>
- Udham Singh : The Great Martyr
- From Darkness To Light : Pledge Your Eyes
- Camp 10 @ MSR Pharmacy College
- Pay Tribute To Kargil Martyrs
Volume 3
- Disha Stage II:

Congratulations to all the fans and supporters of Project Disha. We have got the CTC Disha Stage II started. The new blood banks that are believed to be joining in are Victoria Hospitals NIMHANS Manipal Rajarajeshwarinagar Lions Blood Bank and Narayan Hrudayalaya. - Registration Certificate of Sankalp
- 4th Annivrsary Celebration:
1461 Days 35064 Hours 2103840 Minutes 126230400 Seconds And we are just getting started. - World Blood Donor Day
- Abhivyakti - The Annual Sankalp Magazine
- Srinivasa Aiyangar Ramanujam
- Sankalp's First Platelet Apheresis
- Who represents India best???:
Who represent India best??? 
- Donor's Speak
Volume 2
- Company Connect : Building Blood Bonds
- Subtypes of Blood Group
- Camp 1 @ MSRIT April 7, 2007:

The donation of 29 units of blood @ MSRIT on April 7th, 2007 was a very important moment for all of us. After years of effort to streamline the blood availability and issue at M S R Blood Bank, this was the first major step to make it stronger and better for the needy. - Swami Vivekananda
- Should Sankalp publicize itself
- CTC Disha Report
- Sankalp 4th Anniversary
- Blood Donation Camp conducted at RVCE.
- Your Favourite Patriotic Movie...: Ya its your chance to choice your best patriotic movie and make it win. Lakshya, Swadesh, Border, Legend of Bhagat singh...Choose your best movie..
Volume 1
- Engineering Safe Blood Transfusion
- Association with M S Ramaiah Group Of Institutions
- Registration Drive at the Indian Institute of Sciences: n/a
- Shaheed 2007
- Get Together on Shaheed Divas.: On the occasion of Shaheed Divas ,23rd March, Volunteers of Sankalp come together to remember and discuss the Great Heroes of India. The Indian Heroes whose contribution has brought in an immense change in our lives.. Hero's which set an example for the future generation. Some of the hero's discussed were Shaheed Bhagat Singh, Swami Vivekananda, Dhyanchand, Vanake Obavva, Khudiram Bose, Keshavrao B Hedgevar, Basavraj, Narayan Murthi and some others.
- Bhagat Singh and Group.
- Sankalp Creates a Publishing lab: Yesterday marked the beginning of a new era in Sankalp. We purchased a property that costs more than the total value of all our other assets put together. Speaking to the members of the Times of Bhindiyaan, the Sankalp Spokes person Vibha H G said that the bringing in of this property is marking anew era of accelerated Publishing and Designing. An exclusive lab was created for the property.
- New features added to site.: Its now more than 1 year since we had started internet as our medium to share our thought with world. Over this one year we had tried our best to make website as interactive and informatics as possible. In past few month we had added many new features and section like Samachar patrika, Forgotten Hero of the Month, Count, Thought for the Moment etc.
- Other Sections on Site: Visit the site for more..
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