On June 13, 2011, the day after Baba Ramdev broke his 9 days fast under media arc lights, another sage, admitted in the same Himalayan hospital in Dehradun, Swami Nigamananda passed away. He was on a fast since February 19th, to save river Ganga from illegal sand mining and stone-crushing in Uttarakhand.
The Chotanagpur region is the adivasi dominated plateau in eastern India, which covers much of Jharkhand as well as adjacent parts of Odisha, West Bengal, Bihar and Chhattisgarh.
Venue: Neurocentre Seminar Hall, NIMHSANS, Bangalore
It’s been a year since we decided to get to build this very special community. It has been an eventful journey with several good things to share.
Sankalp has indeed come a long way when it comes to organizing voluntary blood donation camps across the state of Karnataka. With more than six years of experience in organizing camps, let's see what the donors had to say when they donated blood in our drives-
Sankalp India Foundation did not take roots in a personal tragedy. It was not like someone faced an intense situation on a particular occasion and decided to do something. Sankalp was born as a result of the massive unrest that resides in us. The unrest which arises from the state of things around us. When we see the way the world works around us, with all it's imperfections, prejudice, injustice, corruption and so on, we do tend to get agitated. There is a small rebel inside us which wants a change.
I want to wish the little kids with thalassemia a happy day and I want to mean it too.
Today is the world thalassemia day. All over the world organisations and individuals are celebrating this occasion. It did occur to me that having been involved with thalassemia for 2 years now - maybe we too should celebrate this day.
Rural India is filled with examples where one man's vision and hard-work have accomplished seemingly impossible dreams.
Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose was a tireless worker, who chalked out his own unique but highly effective and efficient methods to drive the oppressive British out of Inida. Apart from being the worker he was, he had a great sense of pride and a attached a deep sense of responsibility and commitment to the challenges that lay before him. In this speech named Order Of the Day delivered by Netaji on August 26, 1943, he simply has personified the sense of responsibility of a leader.
Sundarbans, formerly Sunderbunds, vast tract of forest and saltwater swamp forming the lower part of the Ganges Delta, extending about 160 miles (260 km) along the Bay of Bengal from the Hooghly River Estuary (India) to the Meghna River Estuary in Bangladesh. The Sundarbans are a part of the world's largest delta formed by the rivers Ganges, Brahmaputra and Meghna. The whole tract reaches inland for 60-80 miles (100-130 km).A network of estuaries, tidal rivers, and creeks intersected by numerous channels, it encloses flat, marshy islands covered with dense forests.A network of estuaries, tidal rivers, and creeks intersected by numerous channels, it encloses flat, marshy islands covered with dense forests.
Carnival of Onam lasts from four to ten days. First day, Atham and tenth day, Thiruonam are most important of all.
