Feelings

News can at times tear your head apart. I got news - some news. And it did a wonderful harmonal/enzymatic/neural reaction in my body. I have not been able to sleep well. The news hounds me all the time. I am hearing about it at the back of my head. I am feeling my fingers experience what must have happened when hat news was being made. I don't know whether to be angry or to feel sorry or to pray. I am helpless. Just that the news has come to me and I am only trying to come to terms with it.

I once maintained a garden. When I started with it, I knew nothing about the flowers, the plants and the trees. All i knew is that it is me who should be maintaining that garden. I used to spend some time each day taking care of my garden. The smallest of things were looked into. Whetever was not just right was treated immediately. I learnt then. I learnt a lot. I got to know a lot about plants and how to keep them. My garden was always green and fresh. It was blooming and bright. My sweat and my blood was nurturning it.

Here is what Ankita, a volunteer of Sankalp had to say on the event of 7th Anniversary of Sankalp.

There is no doubt on the fact that Bihar is moving forward. The promise and expectation of good governance has aroused the native entrepreneurial instinct. Although Nitish Kumar's government has a long way to go, it has shown positive signs. The signs of awakening in Bihar should ideally, ripple developmental activities in the rest of eastern India, particularly in West Bengal and Jharkhand.

It was just an usual day for engineers like us.

She's been there with me when I have been lonely. On the long dark nights when I could not sleep. She was there when I felt bent and broken. She was there to sooth me, comfort me, caress me and give me peace. She has been there when I face challanges. She shows me the way. she gives me the strength to walk the right road, to take the challange, head on.. She's been there to tell me tales - of the beauty of my nation and it's people.

A Sankalp volunteer named Anil had this to say on the 7th Anniversary of the organisation in May 2010. For Anil this was his first year at Sankalp.

Chat online, tickets online, banking online, mobile recharge online, books online, mail online, dating online, order food online, travel online, jobs online, shopping online, gaming online, socialising online, cinema online. Is our life restricted inside a plastic box?

Whose woods these are I think I know.

His house is in the village, though;

He will not see me stopping here

To watch his woods fill up with snow.

My little horse must think it queer

To stop without a farmhouse near

Between the woods and frozen lake

The darkest evening of the year.