Application for Teach For India 2012 Fellowship is now open

Dear Potential Applicant,

Greetings from Teach For India! Hope this email finds you well. We are writing to you because you applied for the Teach For India 2011 Fellowship.

We are excited to announce that the application form for the 2012 Fellowship has gone live on our website and it is time to again to come together and work towards eliminating educational inequity in India.

We invite you to consider applying for the Fellowship. We would like to clarify that if your previous application with us was unsuccessful, that will not be taken into account while evaluating your current application for the 2012 Fellowship. Teach For India believes in continuous improvement and will treat applications for what they are now. We believe that you have gained in skills and experience over the last year, and your familiarity with the Teach For India selection process will help you understand our movement better.

A quick update of what has happened in the last few months:

• 250 new Fellows joined the Teach For India movement in May/June 2011 and recently started teaching in classrooms
  
• Our first cohort of 2009 Fellows graduated this year and are pursuing dynamic paths beyond the Fellowship. To read more about our alumni, please see http://www.teachforindia.org/beyond_fellowship.php
• Teach For India Fellows are currently teaching 13,500 students in 130 schools in Mumbai, Pune and Delhi
• Teach For India was selected the best NGO to work for by the Economic Times
  

For 2012, Teach For India is seeking 450 Fellows to teach in 4 cities, namely, Hyderabad, Mumbai, Pune and Delhi.

We request that you spend some time perusing the following resources to understand our application process this year. 
http://www.teachforindia.org/tfi_faq.php
http://www.teachforindia.org/how-to-apply.php

Our first application deadline is 31st July 2011. We look forward to receiving your completed application by then. Kindly visit http://www.teachforindia.org/who-we-are-looking-for.php to get started.

Please feel free to reach out to us at apply@teachforindia.org with any questions you may have. 

Good luck!  

Teach For India Team

apply@teachforindia.org

TEACH FOR INDIA - One day all children will attain an excellent education

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Call for Volunteers (at a Teach For India classroom)

Hi awesome Puneite,

If you can spare some time and come over to my classroom and help me conduct the Beginning Of Year assessments, or volunteer a couple of hours of your spare time from home to correct students' answer papers:
1) You will be very lucky to be a part of MY classroom and we can make it OUR classroom
2) You get to see an amazing group of Grade 5 students who'll simply love ya!
3) I get to finish my BOY assessment on time, and we can give the students an education tailored to their needs!

To know more about the organization I'm a part of, please check out our website or this brief presentation.

Q: Skills needed? Does it involve handling multiple kids?? - No, this is all out-of-classroom, is very easy and anybody can do it! (Please talk about this to your mom / dad / retired elder relatives as well as teenage siblings - everyone can help!)

If you feel like you can help in any way, drop me an e-mail or call/text me @966-583-1250 [local charges apply :-) ]
If you have an off day on Saturday, then that's a huge opportunity! Come on over and I promise it'll be the most rewarding Saturday you've had!


I teach in Shantabai Ladkat English Medium School which is located at Nanapeth.
It is next to Sant Kabir Police Chowky on the main road from Shankar Sheth road flyover to Railway Station; also on a direct road from behind Aurora Towers in Camp.
Show on Google Maps

School timings: 7am to 2pm Mon-Fri
                        11am to 4pm, Sat
Volunteering timings : ANY TIME!

Cheers,
Nikhil Sheth
+91-966-583-1250
Pune, India
Grade 5 Teacher, Shantabai Ladkat School, Nanapeth, Pune

 TEACH FOR INDIA Fellow, 2011-13
http://www.nikhilsheth.tk
http://www.facebook.com/nikjs

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Teach For India - Best place to work, NGO category - ET and Great places to work survey

Message we received today from our marketing team:

Dear Best People 

      I am feeling ecstatic to share that Teach For India has been ranked as No. 1 in NGO category in the Best places to work survey 2011. About 500 companies participated in the survey and we were amongst a few unique start-up initiatives that were shortlisted to participate for the first time. Check out the cover feature here.

http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/news-by-industry/jobs/best-companies-to-work-for-2011-companies-that-came-up-trumps-across-23-sectors/articleshow/8950261.cms

Don't miss to get the Economic Times from the stands today that covers the detailed survey. 

I want to take this opportunity to Thank each one of you for making Teach For India a best place to work within 3 years of its inception.  

RangDe: Proud to be micro-financing a solar oven assembler!

Ambika Manikandan 's Evaluation Notes

First Evaluation : Ovens Raise Profits See more evaluations

The loan allowed Ambika to buy the components for her business in larger numbers. She told Ajesh our evaluator that this has helped her to cater to more clients and she is able to sell more of the solar powered ovens that she assembles. Her two year old business has seen a marked improvement and she is able to repay the loan with ease. Evaluated by Ajesh 1 month ago

Borrower DetailsView borrower profile

Location : Palakkad, Kerala      Activity : Solar ovens selling Current Loan Status : Repaying Ambika is involved in an unusual occupation. She buys oven parts and assembles it into solar powered ovens. They are then sold under the brand name of "Excellent". She works in a team and she needs funds to buy the parts. She operates from home and is a significant contributor to the family income. Her daughter is in class twelve and Ambika would like to see her complete her education.

Fwd: Lokpal bill - how to register your protest on Internet

Friends

 

There is a strong back-lash by certain Ministers of the Govt on the inclusion of PM & other senior Ministers in the Lokpal Bill. Actually it is all a hogwash to dilute the bill itself. There is a strong media campaign against the civil society members of the Lokpal bill drafting committee, with character assassination etc . Somehow the looters have always kept the law away from them and taken advantage of the slow judiciary, weakening of cases by CBI. This includes both the bribe givers and the bribe takers.

 

What therefore is the solution……creating public opinion and giving feedback is a good way of doing so. The Govt of India now has many websites, where you can register your views. There are many NGO's creating on-line petitions…the internet generation can at least spare the time to write to various arms of Govt of India.

 

They parliament rules in the name of people , but wants civil society out by claiming parliamentary immunity…….....'YOU ARE RULING IN MY NAME BUT I HAVE NO SAY'… I believe this needs a change

 

Here are 2 online websites

 

http://pgportal.gov.in/Grievance.aspx

 

PM of  India website. http://www.pmindia.nic.in

 

At the bottom of the page is 'feedback' bar. You are free to express your views to the PM office directly on the grievance subject.

 

If you feel strongly on the subject of corruption, please circulate this mail to as many like minded friends as possible.

 

Wishing India all the best.

 

Rgds

 

(forwared by a friend)

Proven : Co-operation is key to evolution, not survival of fittest

News: It has been scientifically proven that survival of the most co-operative, rather than of the fittest, is the key to evolution.



http://www.thersa.org/events/audio-and-past-events/2011/supercooperators-the-mathematics-of-evolution,-altruism-and-human-behaviour

Please check out the link - there's a podcast as well as a video you can watch there which gives all the details. Here's the gist:

RSA Keynote

Everyone is familiar with Darwin's revolutionary idea about the survival of the fittest, and most people agree that it works - but Darwin's famous theory has one major chink. If life is about survival of the fittest, then why would we risk our own life to jump into a river to save a stranger?

Some people argue that issues such as charity, fairness, forgiveness and cooperation are evolutionary loose ends, side issues that are of little consequence. But as Harvard's celebrated evolutionary biologist Professor Martin Nowak explains - cooperation is central to the four-billion-year-old puzzle of life.

Cooperation is fundamental to how molecules in the primordial soup crossed the watershed that separates dead chemistry from biochemistry.

Cooperation is the key to understanding why language evolved, an event that is as significant as the evolution of the first primitive organism.

And it goes without saying that cooperation is the reason that people live in towns, villages and cities. Cooperation can even help to explain the spread of cancer cells and the role of punishment in society.

Join Martin Nowak and Roger Highfield at the RSA as they explore the five basic laws of cooperation - Kin Selection, Direct Reciprocity, Indirect Reciprocity, Network Reciprocity and Group Selection - in order to explain some of the most fundamental mechanics beneath everyday life.

If you can connect the dots together fast enough, this development will blow you away. Everything we had accepted so far, will have to be questioned - the major institutions that rule the world today are suddenly exposed to be completely unnecessary to society.

This mathematically (and by now practically too) proven theory gives credible backing to the argument that existing systems of Capitalism, Game Theory, Communism, Big Government - are all flawed, as they assumed "survival of the fittest" was the most basic evolutionary rule, which inevitably led to selfishness.

Even Communism and now the Big Government systems that run major countries of the world today, assume that people aren't capable of co-operating on their own and so need a big-brother government to keep them from destroying themselves. They fool us into thinking that normal won't take care of the underprivileged, so they tax us and then leech it off for their own ends. Did you know that the Indian government

According to them, the concept of people voluntarily co-oerating with each other, loving and caring for one another, shouldn't exist. If their arguments were to be believed (as they unfortunately have so far), then there is just no explanation for the rise and rise of so many movements all across the world today that want to spread good without any selfish motive other than the practical realization that the only way their children will have a happy life is if everybody's children inherit a better world.

"Economists" (rather waste-onomists!) try to justify, and downplay, the existence of all the benevolent voluntary movements across the world as PR tactics, without even addressing the loophole that if their most basic logic (market economics > selfish motive as prime driver of all human activity) was really true, there would not be any Public around to sell the PR to!

Because of this chasm in logic, this conflict between reality and accepted theories, religious institutions had barged in and claimed that all the good stuff in the world arises from religiosity. There was already enough evidence of organized religious institutions and leaders abusing authority for their own ends in the name of religion, of stifling growth, of dividing people, but because of the claims that everything that is good in this world also comes from them, they were able to justify their existence as necessary and essential to civilization.

The scientific proof of co-operation being inherent in all living organisms exposes those claims and so defeats the monetary, the religious and the government institutions in one blow! If good for all is inherent in us all, if we know that any selfish society will self-destruct by natural inevitability and we have the scientific proof to back it, there is no need for having any competitive system, or any external incentives for good behavior or any big brother to watch over.

Rather, if we probe deep enough, it's evident that bad behavior exists today only because of external incentives that reward it - from genocidal governments to reckless traders to repressive religions to terrorists. To prevent terror, they make more terror, to prevent bankruptcy they create more debt, to prevent vice they end up committing more vice and the vicious cirlce widens. If we got rid of our assumptions and accepted co-operation as our natural state, we won't need the institutions that are causing the mess while fooling us all this time that they were protecting us - we don't need their protection as we don't have any enemies in a world where co-operation is key to evolution!

For the nice religious people, I did not target you; it turns out you were on the right path all along! Using this we can once and for all get rid of the extremist elements in your establishments by exposing their double standards. You won't need to follow made-up stories, rather the most basic principles of empathy, love, caring, are enough as they can be proven by simple logic and don't need elaborate setups like heaven and hell and God and Satan. This co-operation theory represents a path for unification of scientific thought and niceness - we will realize that one is the other and we can have both!

article: Renewable energy can power the world, says landmark IPCC study

Here's an additional reference source for the pro-renewable energy stand. It gives credible and scientifically backed opposition to the assumption that renewable energy cannot provide for all electricity needs.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2011/may/09/ipcc-renewable-energy-power-world

Renewable energy can power the world, says landmark IPCC study

UN's climate change science body says renewables supply, particularly solar power, can meet global demand

A solar power plant in the Mojave desert. Photograph: AP

Renewable energy could account for almost 80% of the world's energy supply within four decades - but only if governments pursue the policies needed to promote green power, according to a landmark report published on Monday.

The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, the body of the world's leading climate scientists convened by the United Nations, said that if the full range of renewable technologies were deployed, the world could keep greenhouse gas concentrations to less than 450 parts per million, the level scientists have predicted will be the limit of safety beyond which climate change becomes catastrophic and irreversible.

Investing in renewables to the extent needed would cost only about 1% of global GDP annually, said Rajendra Pachauri, chairman of the IPCC.

Renewable energy is already growing fast – of the 300 gigawatts of new electricity generation capacity added globally between 2008 and 2009, about 140GW came from renewable sources, such as wind and solar power, according to the report.

The investment that will be needed to meet the greenhouse gas emissions targets demanded by scientists is likely to amount to about $5trn in the next decade, rising to $7trn from 2021 to 2030.

Ramon Pichs, co-chair of one of the key IPCC working groups, said: "The report shows that it is not the availability of [renewable] resources but the public policies that will either expand or constrain renewable energy development over the coming decades. Developing countries have an important stake in the future – this is where most of the 1.4 billion people without access to electricity live yet also where some of the best conditions exist for renewable energy deployment."

Sven Teske, renewable energy director at Greenpeace International, and a lead author of the report, said: "This is an invitation to governments to initiate a radical overhaul of their policies and place renewable energy centre stage. On the run up to the next major climate conference, COP17 in South Africa in December, the onus is clearly on governments to step up to the mark."

He added: "The IPCC report shows overwhelming scientific evidence that renewable energy can also meet the growing demand of developing countries, where over 2 billion people lack access to basic energy services and can do so at a more cost-competitive and faster rate than conventional energy sources. Governments have to kick start the energy revolution by implementing renewable energy laws across the globe."

The 1,000-page Special Report on Renewable Energy Sources and Climate Change Mitigation (SRREN) marks the first time the IPCC has examined low-carbon energy in depth, and the first interim report since the body's comprehensive 2007 review of the science of climate change.

Although the authors are optimistic about the future of renewable energy, they note that many forms of the technology are still more expensive than fossil fuels, and find that the production of renewable energy will have to increase by as much as 20 times in order to avoid dangerous levels of global warming. Renewables will play a greater role than either nuclear or carbon capture and storage by 2050, the scientists predict.

Investing in renewables can also help poor countries to develop, particularly where large numbers of people lack access to an electricity grid.

About 13% of the world's energy came from renewable sources in 2008, a proportion likely to have risen as countries have built up their capacity since then, with China leading the investment surge, particularly in wind energy. But by far the greatest source of renewable energy used globally at present is burning biomass (about 10% of the total global energy supply), which is problematic because it can cause deforestation, leads to deposits of soot that accelerate global warming, and cooking fires cause indoor air pollution that harms health.

There was disappointment for enthusiasts of marine energy, however, as the report found that wave and tidal power were "unlikely to significantly contribute to global energy supply before 2020". Wind power, by contrast, met about 2% of global electricity demand in 2009, and could increase to more than 20% by 2050.

As with all IPCC reports, the summary for policymakers – the synopsis of the report that will be presented to governments and is likely to impact renewable energy policy – had to be agreed line by line and word by word unanimously by all countries. This was done at Monday's meeting in Abu Dhabi. This makes the process lengthy, but means that afterwards no government or scientist represented can say that they disagree with the finished findings, which the IPCC sees as a key strength of its operations.

The launch of the report is streamed on the IPCC web site.

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For discreditors of IPCC / Pachauri who claim that they were profiteering and lying, they can be told about the official apology that the media companies had to make after an audit proved the accusations wrong. This of course was not as widely publicized as the accusations were.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rajendra_K._Pachauri#Controversies

On 21 August 2010, the Daily Telegraph issued an apology, saying that it had "not intended to suggest that Dr Pachauri was corrupt or abusing his position as head of the IPCC and we accept KPMG found Dr Pachauri had not made "millions of dollars" in recent years." It stated: "We apologise to Dr Pachauri for any embarrassment caused."^[29] The newspaper was reported to have paid legal costs running into six figures.^[28] Pachauri welcomed the Telegraph's apology, saying that he was "glad that they have finally acknowledged the truth", and attributed the false allegations to "another attempt by the climate sceptics to discredit the IPCC. They now want to go after me and hope that it would serve their purpose."^[30]

Join Vinay Pathak and citizens of India and Become a Fool for Forests!

Dear Nikhil, Amazing! In just days over 15,000 people have become Fools for Forests. Now it's time for all of us Fools to act because something urgent has come up. The Group of Ministers formed to look into the forest versus coal issue is meeting for the last time today.[1] They are going to decide if some of the last remaining forests in Central and Eastern India are going to be destroyed for the coal that lies underneath them. We need to show the government that there is massive public opposition to any plans to destroy forests. To do this, we need more people to join this movement and become Fools for Forests. Can you forward the mail below to your friends and family, and ask them to become Fools for Forests? Thanks a billion! Preethi Herman Climate and Energy Campaigner Greenpeace India Source: 1. GoM on coal to now meet on June 9, Business standard, June 6, 2011 http://www.business-standard.com/india/news/gomcoal-to-now-meetjune-9/137592/on Dear friend, Hi! I am Vinay Pathak, and I'm usually trying to make you laugh. Today I'm very serious - serious about saving our forests. Join me and become a Fool for Forests I find it hard to imagine that there are people who want to cut down forests for the coal underneath them. Especially when there are other ways to ensure we have power. Sadly enough, our government wants to replace our last remaining forests in central and eastern India with ugly, barren coal mines, displacing millions of people and much wildlife dependent on these forests. People and organisations like Greenpeace who want them to keep our forests safe, are called foolish. If our 'smart leaders' have their way, they'll clear all our forests. I don't want that to happen because I am a Fool for Forests. Surely you don't want this to happen either? So watch this video and become a Fool for Forests like me and many others. http://www.foolsforforests.org/english/join/ As a supporter of Greenpeace, I know that the organisation has been working hard to keep the environment safe and that includes the forests too. This effort to protect the forests will gain more strength if all Fools for Forests like us come together and support it. Recently, I read that research done by the Intergovernmental Panel for Climate Change has shown that renewable energy can provide for the entire world.[1] When we have such a clean and viable option, why is the government so crazy about destroying our forests to get dirty coal? Our children deserve to experience the beauty of forests and the life forms that co-exist in them. Let's be foolish now so that our future generations have a smart future. Become a Fool for Forests now! http://www.foolsforforests.org/english/join/ Thanks a billion! Vinay Pathak Actor For Greenpeace India P.S. Want to support our campaigns? We don't take money from any corporation, government or political party! We never have, and we never will. Do help Greenpeace remain fiercely and proudly independent. Click here to chip in. Source: 1. Renewable energy can power the world, says landmark IPCC study, Guardian, May 9, 2011 http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2011/may/09/ipcc-renewable-energy-power-world

Spilt Milk (Story on how making mistakes is ok and important)

Spilt Milk
(got this as an email forwdard)

Have you heard of the story - spilt milk? Well, we all know there is no use crying over spilt milk. But this story is different. I would hope all parents would respond in this manner.
 
I recently heard a story about a famous research scientist who had made several very important medical breakthroughs. He was being interviewed by a newspaper reporter who asked him why he thought he was able to be so much more creative than the average person. What set him so far apart from others?
 
He responded that, in his opinion, it all came from an experience with his mother that occurred when he was about two years old. He had been trying to remove a bottle of milk from the refrigerator when he lost his grip on the slippery bottle and it fell, spilling its contents all over the kitchen floor - a veritable sea of milk!
 
When his mother came into the kitchen, instead of yelling at him, giving him a lecture, or punishing him, she said, "Robert, what a great and wonderful mess you have made! I have rarely seen such a huge puddle of milk. Well, the damage has already been done. Would you like to get down and play in the milk for a few minutes before we clean it up?"
 
Indeed, he did. After a few minutes, his mother said, "You know, Robert, whenever you make a mess like this, eventually you have to clean it up and restore everything to its proper order. So, how would you like to do that? We could use a sponge, a towel, or a mop. Which do you prefer?" He chose the sponge and together they cleaned up the spilled milk.
 
His mother then said, "You know, what we have here is a failed experiment in how to effectively carry a big milk bottle with two tiny hands. Let's go out in the back yard and fill the bottle with water and see if you can discover a way to carry it without dropping it." The little boy learned that if he grasped the bottle at the top near the lip with both hands, he could carry it without dropping it. What a wonderful lesson!
 
This renowned scientist then remarked that it was at that moment that he knew he didn't need to be afraid to make mistakes.
 
Instead, he learned that mistakes were just opportunities for learning something new, which is, after all, what scientific experiments are all about. Even if the experiment doesn't work, we usually learn something valuable from it.
 
Wouldn't it be great if all parents would respond the way Robert's mother responded to him?
 
Every memorable act in the history of the world is a triumph of enthusiasm. Nothing great was ever achieved without it because it gives any challenge or any occupation, no matter how frightening or difficult, a new meaning. Without enthusiasm you are doomed to a life of mediocrity but with it you can accomplish miracles.

Are you connecting the dots?

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From: Jamie Henn - 350.org
Date: Wed, May 25, 2011 at 8:29 PM
Subject: Are you connecting the dots?

Hi all,

Do you ever feel like there are signs of the climate crisis all around you?

In an article published today in the Washington Post, 350.org founder Bill McKibben connects the dots between recent natural disasters and climate disruption.

Click here to read the article and share it with your friends, family, and co-workers:

www.350.org/connections

Onwards,

Jamie for the 350.org team

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Keep Calm and Carry On

By Bill McKibben, orignally published in the Washington Post

Caution: It is vitally important not to make connections. When you see pictures of rubble like this week's shots from Joplin, Missouri, you should not ask yourself: I wonder if this is somehow related to the huge tornado outbreak three weeks ago in Tuscaloosa, or the enormous outbreak a couple of weeks before that—together they comprised the most active April for tornadoes in our history. But that doesn't mean a thing.

It is far better to think of these as isolated, unpredictable, discrete events. It is not advised to try and connect them in your mind with, say, the fires now burning across Texas—fires that have burned more of America by this date than any year in our history. Texas, and adjoining parts of Oklahoma and New Mexico, are drier than they've ever been—the drought is worse than the Dust Bowl. But do not wonder if it's somehow connected...

Read the Full Article at www.350.org/connections

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350.org is building a global grassroots movement to solve the climate crisis. Our online campaigns, grassroots organizing, and mass public actions are led from the bottom up by thousands of volunteer organizers in over 188 countries.  You can join 350.org on Facebook by becoming a fan of our page at facebook.com/350org and follow us on twitter by visiting twitter.com/350. To join our list (maybe a friend forwarded you this e-mail) visit www.350.org/signup. 

What is 350? 350 is the number that leading scientists say is the safe upper limit for carbon dioxide in our atmosphere. Scientists measure carbon dioxide in "parts per million" (ppm), so 350ppm is the number humanity needs to get below as soon as possible to avoid runaway climate change. To get there, we need a different kind of PPM—a "people powered movement" that is made of people like you in every corner of the planet.

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Join in, ppl!

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Fwd: Raja Vikramaditya and Dr. Manmohan Singh

7 March 2013: Edit: I have no more confusions: Manmohan Singh is IN with all the corrupt. His image has been carefully constructed... it's all false. He's an agent put up there to facilitate the drainage of resources out of India. The people won't be so hasty to revolt if they think there's a good old man at the top who'll look after them. That's exactly what the industrialist lobby exploited.

a forwarded mail...
Raja Vikramaditya and Dr. Manmohan Singh
Once there lived an old and pious man, renowned for his honesty. One day his neighbor, a rich merchant comes to him with a request. The merchant was leaving on a voyage and wants the old man to safeguard his wealth, until his return. The old man agrees and with God as witness promises to protect and safeguard the merchant's wealth.
The old man then entrusts the safe keeping of the merchant's wealth to his son, from whom he takes an oath of propriety and honesty. Slowly the son starts dipping into the merchant's wealth; people notice this and warn the old man of the son's misdeeds. The old man calls his son asks him to explain, he also reminds him of his oath on following the right path. The son rubbishes the accusations as rumours and the idle gossip of jealous people, who could bear to see his prosperity. The old man accepts the son's explanation and things go on as before.
The merchant returns and demands his wealth back. The old man calls his son, who hands over only a fraction of the merchant's original wealth saying that is all there was. The merchant realising that he has been cheated approaches the King. The King listens to the merchant's complaint and summons the old man.
The old man comes to the court with his son and handing him over to the king says "your majesty, the merchant is right. My son has confessed to the crime. Please punish him."
The king has the son flogged and imprisoned. He then praises the old mans honesty and dismisses the case. But the merchant demands punishment for the old man saying, "I have still not received justice.
I had entrusted my wealth to the old man which he swore by God to safeguard. The old man's integrity is intact, but what of me, I have been robbed of my life's savings, and made a pauper. It was the old man's decision to entrust my wealth to the son for safe keeping. As far as I am concerned the old man is the culprit, and should be punished.
The king is astounded by this demand. The old man, was neither a party to the theft nor did he benefit from it. In fact, he had sent his son to jail. Yet, the merchant was asking for the old man's punishment.
The Betal asks Vikramaditya, "What should be the Kings decision?"
Vikramaditya replies, "Though the old man is innocent of the actual theft, he is guilty of dereliction of duty. The son's crime was a straight forward one, the old man's was a graver crime. He did nothing to protect the merchant's wealth. Far from being vigilant he failed to take action even when he was warned of his son's misdeeds. Because of his laxity the merchant is condemned to a life of penury. He should be punished."
"Itna sunkar Betal ped ki daal pe ulta ja baitha"
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India 2010 , Dr. Manmohan Singh, esteemed economist, former Governor of RBI, Deputy Chairman of Planning Commission, former Finance Minister, a man whose personal ethics and integrity are unblemished, takes oath to protect and safeguard the Nation and its assets. He appoints Raja, as his Cabinet Minister for IT & Telecom.
Unlike the story, this heist of a precious national asset is carried out in full view of Dr. Manmohan Singh and his cabinet colleagues. Newspapers across the country cry out at this outrage in front page headlines.
The Indian Constitution grants the Prime Minister absolute power in running the country. He is the head of the Government and the Union Cabinet functions at his pleasure. As per the Transaction of Business Rules the Prime Minister has the unrestricted right to demand and get any file, any record from any Ministry. Dr. Man Mohan Singh could have at any time stopped this heist of a national asset, yet he chose to remain silent. The Prime Minister's failure to exercise his constitutional rights has caused irreparable loss to the Nation.
Dr. Singh did not profit personally from Raja's shenanigans, but his failure to act, to honour the oath of office, to protect and safeguard the nation and its wealth is unforgivable. Like the old man, he has sacked Raja from his ministerial berth, but does his culpability end there.
The people of India had entrusted their faith and the future of the Nation to Dr. Manmohan Singh, believing him to be a man of integrity and honesty, and not to Raja. Does dismissing Raja absolve Dr. Singh or like the old man is he guilty of dereliction of duty and failure to safeguard the Nation and its citizens. Does he not deserve punishment?

Facebook groups Vs Forced conversions

A serious bone to pick with FB. Where are the civilized old days when one would respectfully invite you to a group, and you had the option to respectfully refuse? Now you get added by force, things get heaped upon you without your volition, and then when you have to leave, it's made to look disrespectful and offensive.
When I'd said FB is becoming something of a religion, I never meant it should pan out this way! :P

Limited data internet browsing tips

If you block Flash and images and have an option to turn them on as and when required, then you'll multiply the amount of online browsing you can do for the same MB/GB limit. Because majority of those bytes are always eaten up by the images and flash - basic internet is very low on bytes.

Firefox extensions I used when I had a limited account : Flashblock, and ImgLikeOpera. Now the latter is getting older, here's another one that works and blocks both:
Image and Flash blocker - https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/image-and-flash-blocker/

Flashblock puts a handy play button on top of web video etc so you play it only when you want to.
URL: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/flashblock/

It's also a good idea to block ads off completely to minimize wastage of your bandwidth, plus avoid evil cookies and this makes your pages load faster:
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/adblock-plus/

Opera browser has an inbuilt feature to be able to block/unblock images at a click, and is quite fast - on par with Chrome and isn't as heavy as Firefox. The button sits in the lower corner somewhere.

I don't know what's there for google chrome and IE : don't ask!

Cheers
Nikhil

article : The case of Beckett Brennan

This is a cause women and responsible men should get together and fight for. The phenomenon's creeping into Indian cities as well along with rise in affluence and must be fought right in the face. Girls should be made more aware of their rights and men should know that it is not OK, not to be tolerated no matter what the "cool" crowd says.

This has to be conveyed not through a big brother or threatening approach - because that makes the act even more desired and the defense cannot really be implemented, plus can be misused. Rather, a social disapproval of such behavior needs to be spread - men need to hear from their peers that it's cheap and uncool to play dirty tricks and that it's way cooler to score fair and square. If we can succeed doing that in sports and exams, why not here?

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2011/04/17/60minutes/main20054339.shtml?tag=strip

Comment posted regarding Wikipedia for Schools... on Jimmy Wales' blog

Just posted a comment on... JIMMY WALES' BLOG!

Hi Mr.Wales,
I started spreading the Kiwix version of Wikipedia for Schools (2008/09 edition - the only one out there at present) since Jan 2011 when I was looking for something of this sort to put in the net-less computer lab in a school I'm volunteering with. The Kiwix version it's a lot more portable, compact (4GB compressed to 2.8GB and only one file for all the content) and is available for download from http://download.kiwix.org/portable/

I've started a page and a map (for India) where volunteers can co-ordinate on spreading the package (I've christened it WFSOE - wikipedia for schools, offline edition)
http://tinyurl.com/WFSOE (a wikia education pg)
http://tinyurl.com/WFSOEIndiaMap (a google maps link pg)
I'll be joining a 2-yr fellowship programmed shortly where I'll work as a teacher at under-resourced schools in 3 cities in India, as part of a movement to battle educational inequity. The Wikipedia for Schools fills a huge gap and can turn any simple computer into a digital reference library for students, giving them access to information that would be otherwise too expensive for them. I will try to spread this to my cohort of 400+ young people when our training begins in 2 weeks time.

Damn, so many typos and logical errors! I won't be teaching in 3 different cities.. my TFI group will !

Read his post here: http://blog.jimmywales.com/2009/10/24/a-small-wedding-gift/

Quick info on Zeitgeist movement

The four mythologies till date Economics, Politics, Banking and Religion have taken the world for a ride in all the history. They have created a global systemic crisis bcuz of their rigid & profit-based paradigms that are detrimental to the entire humanity and natural ecosystems.

Make the world free from the slavery of economic, political, banking and religious orthodoxies and embrace Humane, Sustainable, Scientific & Strategic ways to save the planet.

We have answers for the entire humanity. Join The Zeitgeist Movement. http://www.thezeitgeistmovement.com/ ...

Please support the Venus Project. http://www.thevenusproject.com/

copy-pasting this from another Zeitgeist fan's email signature!


Cheers,
Nikhil Sheth
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Pune, India
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Fwd: 400 000 volunteers clean garbage today in Ukraine, Moldova and Lithuania

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Tiina Urm
Date: 2011/4/16
Subject: [Together] 400 000 volunteers clean garbage today in Ukraine, Moldova and Lithuania


PRESS RELEASE
16.04.11

400 000 volunteers clean garbage today in Ukraine, Moldova and Lithuania

More than 400 000 volunteers to participate in massive civic-led cleanup actions this saturday, April 16, taking place in Ukraine, Moldova and Lithuania.

The country-wide cleanups are part of an international civic movement Let's do it! aiming to unite volunteers in many countries to clean up illegally dumped waste. Each of the actions is uniting public, private and third sector organizations and record amount of volunteers in a one day massive cleanup effort, covering the whole territory of the country.

Moldova's cleanup action is titled Hai Moldova! Professionals and students from different fields came together to form a cleanup organization team and start the preparation works in October last year. Today they are looking to bring together the efforts of 100 000 volunteers.

Ukraine had a first pilot cleanup in Kiew last september, attended by over 2000 volunteers. This time the cleanup is targeting illegal waste all over the country and 50 000 ukrainians are expected to show up today. To support the event, titled: "Зробимо Україну чистою!", a flashmob event was organized on the streets of Kiew on March 29th: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AsVlNeDBikc

Lithuania is organizing a country-wide cleanup fourth time - the initiative titled "Darom!" has grown from 3000 people event in 2008 to a nation-wide effort, engaging 200 000 volunteers last year and aiming to bring 300 000 people together this time. The task is huge - to clean up 15 000 tons of illegally dumped waste from forests, lake- and riversides.

The Let's do it! cleanup action model was born on 3rd of May 2008 in Estonia, when 50 000 people came out to clean up the whole territory of the country in just 5 hours, collecting together 10 000 tons of waste. After that the initiative started to spread - to Latvia, Lithuania, India, Portugal, Slovenia, Ukraine, Romania and Bulgaria, where altogether 1,3 million people have participated in civic-led one-day cleanups.

More information:

Let's do it! homepage: www.letsdoitworld.org
Moldova homepage: http://www.hai.md/
Ukraine homepage: http://letsdoit.org.ua/
Lithuanian homepage: http://mesdarom.lt/


Tiina Urm
Communications & PR
Let's do it! World Cleanup 2012
Let's do it! Newsletter March 2011
www.letsdoitworld.org

What we'll have to prove wrong if the Lokpal movement is not to be hijacked by fascists

Guys, we'll have to prove this prediction wrong if we want to show that the Anna Hazare-led struggle wasn't a Hitler-esque trick where fascists grabbed power in the name of stamping out corruption in Germany back in the 1930s. I'm copying this over from a source on a discussion group:

You may then well wonder whether we will soon see another Anna-type "movement" on the subject of refurbishing the governmental draft of a bill designed to eradicate communal mayhems, or an Anna putsch to seek the adoption of the Womens's Reservation Bill, pending in parliament now for aeons. Or to force the government to draft purposive legislations to eradicate female infanticide, atrocities on dalits and adivasis, or to enforce without nonsense the right to food and education. Or how about ensuring clean drinking water, affordable health-care and sanitation, and securing housing, and freedom from police atrocities to some eighty percent of Indians? Or easy and credible access to systems of justice and grievance redressal? Or justice for a Binayak Sen who rots in a Chattisgarh jail on a charge of sedition, and sentenced without a shred of proof for no less than life. Or indeed a "movement" in support of an Irom Sharmila in Manipur who has now entered the eleventh year of her fast (kept forcibly alive on drips by a terrified state) for the withdrawal of the draconian Armed Forces Special Powers Act. Not a chance.

It's true that there can be forces out there trying to hijack a movement. But it's also true that the state of technology present today is vastly different than what was present in Germany back then. We must support peer-to-peer and web 2.0 to ensure that no single entity can subvert democracy. Complete transparency wasn't possible back then; it is now and we should push for it as an effective counter to any fascist takeover.

Feedback for Univeral Subtitles Project

Background : This is an open-source project underway in Mozilla Drumbeat to create a wiki-way of adding subtitles, in any language, to any video. It addresses the long-felt need to crowd-source and make easy the taks of adding subtitles to videos worth sharing with all the people even if they're deaf or can't understand the original language.

I submitted this feedback there; posting it here for my own record as well. Basically brainstorming on ways to take the project forward - it needs some fresh work.


Check out my speech over there: http://www.universalsubtitles.org/en/videos/4R7tG8HlBO1C/
Thanks to this I could make several parts of it legible! (The audio was a bit obscure at places)


Feature Request: Please have a mode where I can simply enter the minute:seconds, enter the text, and specify either the duration or the end times, watching the video on the same page. Then in next stage I can simply make minute adjustments. (more ideas shared; expand this article to read all of them)

Why don't we heed the advice of the smartest man in the world?

Fact : Einstein may have sent the letter that started the atom bomb project, but he was strictly against its use as anything but a deterrent to Nazis, and he had the vision to see the full long term consequences of using it on civilians, which is why the US Govt never allowed him to be involved in the Manhattan Project.

He did all he could to stop them - his letter begging the US not to use it on Japanese citizens lay unopened on the prez's desk the day Hiroshima was bombed. One message not reached in time brought so much suffering. People who say "Hey, that was the only way to end the war" -- are too unimaginative. There are always more creative ways to achieve a goal. Einstein was advocating that if they really wanted to demonstrate the a-bomb, they should do it over the sea, too far to harm but sufficient enough to scare. Anyways, seeing that ultimately 2 cities were destroyed, that too the second one happened without even giving the Japanese sufficient time to decide, it's obvious the Americans didn't exactly have the greater good in mind. Self-restraint is the mark of a civilized nation, not bullying.

The smartest man on the planet spent the later part of his life continuously opposing the nuclear arms race and making bold and controversial appeals for peace, including ratifying most of Gandhi's philosophies.

In hindsight, what makes you think we should not heed the advice of one the greatest minds to have done so much to make humanity leap-frog its progress?

What makes you think, whenever you say "ok" to anyone who advocates war or conflict or "extreme measures" against any "enemy", that the warmonger is smarter than Einstein?

If he/she is not, what stops you from throwing the warmonger's advice out of the window?

forwarded : A more fact-laden warning on Jan Lokpal

Forwarded by a friend... this came as a revelation to me as well, and I will have to say I agree on many points. Mainly because it echoes the opinion that a structural change at the roots will be a more effective counter to corruption than some sophisticated fruit-cutter. Which is which? The devil, as they say, lies in the details.

How India can defeat inflation and rising food prices

Read this article on Cuba's successful venture with in-city growing of food and how it became self-sufficient despite fuel shortages, trade embargoes, etc:

Peak Oil? Urban Farms? Cuba's Been There, Done It
http://thetyee.ca/News/2009/08/27/CubasDoneIt/

And then watch this video, shot on a terrace in Mumbai, to see how we can convert Indian cities into self-sufficient food producers and DEFEAT inflation and rising prices!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pJImcRYB_kU

Want to know more about how transformative self-help and organic living and farming can be? Take a look at the Lapodia Model, where just like Anna Hazare did, Laxman Singh from Lapodia village, Rajasthan gives a brilliant and refreshing talk on how they turned his defunct village into a model village :

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z3pRQk7bexs

Quoted from the article on top:

The plots were well-tended and bursting with food, there were shady spots to sit in, and none of the workers seemed too hard-pressed to stop what they were doing for a chat. One elderly farmer with a machete noticed how parched I was in the Caribbean sun and sliced me a delicious fresh coconut to drink. If this is the future of city food growing, I thought, bring it on.
"The world needs urban agriculture," Salcines said to put things in perspective.

Of course, it's not like we have much of a choice : http://en.wikinews.org/wiki/Poverty_rises_as_food_prices_increase

Video: Why I advocate the Zeitgeist Movement

This Video shoot happened on day 2 of Z-Day Pune on 20 March 2011.

Thanks to Rishi for uploading this! Please visit the youtube channel : http://www.youtube.com/user/rishigangoly
to see more such testimonials from ordinary people like you and me.

Want to know more about this thing? You can see short clips from the Zeitgiest movie (part 3 - moving forward) on my youtube channel :
http://www.youtube.com/playlist?p=56B6F90AC2A8868A

And you'll find a lot more in write-ups, content and interactivity on http://www.thezeitgeistmovement.in

And relax - it's not any cult or anything - in fact there's no formal structure at all. The essence of the movement is to move from top-down to bottom-up systems, where order and prosperity emerge naturally rather than us having to fight each other over it.

Want to catch the next event and rub shoulders with more people in the movement to transition to the next stage of mankind? Stay in touch here.

Fwd: Another BIG Win after WC 2011 - Against Corruption - Be a part of this WIN! Read below...

JOIN US IN USHERING IN GOVERNANCE 2.0, WHOSE HALLMARK WILL BE ABSOLUTE TRANSPARENCY AND ACCOUNTABIITY

Dear All,

Today time has come that each one us take up the responsibility of whatever is happening around us.

We are responsible for what we are & what we are not, for what we thin, for what we don't think, for what we do & what we don't do.

Standing by the street, watching the old cry of "What can I do, the system is built this way.... Yeh sab aise hi chalta hai!" doesn't make you feel tired???

How many years are we going to be stuck in this well of concepts?

Had the Indian cricket team not asked this question to themselves, we wouldn't have won the cricket WC 2011. Thanks to them we broke this old concept of 28 years.

Let us ask this question once again...

After so many scams that India has seen, viz Bofors, Land Scams, Sugar Scams, Food scams... only some asked this question.

After the recent Common wealth scam many asked this question. After the Adarsh Scam, now hundreds rose and the icing on the cake for the 2G spectrum scam.

My Guru H.H.Sri Sri Ravi Shankarji, made a statement a few years ago where he said that India will be free of corruption by 2015. On this a young person like me very eagerly asked him a question in a public gathering of millions

"With the current sprouting of scams, where is your vision of a corruption free India by 2015"

Guruji replied "You know when a building collapses as in a controlled demolition, the dust rises to its maximum as the building is about to collapse completely"

"Similarly when negativity is at its Peak, all scams (dust) will be seen the most... Don't be disheartened, but it is an indication that every negativity is about to collapse. So don't discard the self effort"

Now, what have done for these scams to end? Many things like pay a small bribe to the traffic policeman to break the signal, pay that small bribe for getting those railway tickets without standing in long queues... Yes so we helped corruption, in our own way!

What can we do now?

The best you can! Help again !!!

Just support a Mahatma...

A mahatma announces fast unto death
Anna Hazare has given an ultimatum to the Prime Minister Dr Manmohan Singh to enact stringent anti-corruption law – the peoples "Jan Lokpal Bill"! Jail to the corrupt must become a reality! We have been betrayed by those that are leading us!

When & Where?

From 5th April at Jantar Mantar, New Delhi and hundreds of cities in India and Abroad

Who is Anna Hazare?

A soldier, lone survivor in his unit in 1965 Indo-Pak war, Anna dedicated his life to the well-being of society. A bachelor, an ascetic, he has no possessions, no bank balance and lives in a temple. He is a living Mahatma Gandhi!

In Maharashtra, Anna has single handedly transformed barren and dry regions into green and food surplus areas. He has fasted unto death on several earlier occasions. He forced the Maharashtra government to dismiss the corrupt - 6 ministers and 400 officers. Due to his fast, the govt enacted the Maharashtra RTI Act. In 2006, when government of India tried to amend the Central RTI Act, he again went on an indefinite fast and forced the Indian government not to amend RTI Act.

Leaders, organizations and the common man from across India will be with him. This is a do or die moment – let us make it happen!

Across India, join Swami Ramdev, Sri Sri Ravishankar, Swami Agnivesh, Arch Bishop Vincent Concessao, Mahmood A Madani, Kiran Bedi, J M Lyngdoh, Shanti Bhushan, Prashant Bhushan, Arvind Kejriwal, Mufti Shamoom Qasmi, Mallika Sarabhai, Arun Bhatia, Sunita Godara, All India Bank Employees Federation, PAN IIT Alumni Association, Common Cause and many other prominent organizations and leaders, as India comes out on the streets! 100+ CITIES WILL RALLY BEHIND ANNA!

This is a defining moment for India that can give our children a better future! Let us unite and stand by him! Thousands will be there to support him. Will you be there? Confirm your participation here: http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=197559453604800 or here http://aidindia.org/main/component/option,com_facileforms/Itemid,466/

 

Anna's appeal to the people:

 

When I sit on fast from 5 April, I urge my fellow countrymen to

• Join me in fasting for one, two, three or whatever number of days you can comfortably fast.
• Along with fast, please pray to God (whoever you believe in) for better and corruption free India. Collective prayers from all the people of India would definitely have a huge impact.
• Write an impassioned plea to our Prime Minister that we look upon him to pass "Jan Lokpal Bill", else we will be compelled not to vote for his party in next elections.
• Remain calm and peaceful and develop the courage to go to jail, if required, in this next freedom movement.

If possible, come and stay with Anna at Jantar Mantar for a few days from April 5th.

Drafted by Justice Santosh Hegde, Prashant Bhushan and Arvind Kejriwal, this Bill has been refined on the basis of feedback received from public on website and after series of public consultations. It has also been vetted by and is supported by Shanti Bhushan, J M Lyngdoh, Kiran Bedi, Anna Hazare etc. It was sent to the PM and all CMs on 1st December. However, there is no response.

Salient features of Jan Lokpal Bill

1.       An institution called LOKPAL at the centre and LOKAYUKTA in each state will be set up

2.       Like Supreme Court and Election Commission, they will be completely independent of the governments. No minister or bureaucrat will be able to influence their investigations.

3.       Cases against corrupt people will not linger on for years anymore: Investigations in any case will have to be completed in one year. Trial should be completed in next one year so that the corrupt politician, officer or judge is sent to jail within two years.

4.       The loss that a corrupt person caused to the government will be recovered at the time of conviction.

5.       How will it help a common citizen: If any work of any citizen is not done in prescribed time in any government office, Lokpal will impose financial penalty on guilty officers, which will be given as compensation to the complainant.

6.       So, you could approach Lokpal if your ration card or passport or voter card is not being made or if police is not registering your case or any other work is not being done in prescribed time. Lokpal will have to get it done in a month's time. You could also report any case of corruption to Lokpal like ration being siphoned off, poor quality roads been constructed or panchayat funds being siphoned off. Lokpal will have to complete its investigations in a year, trial will be over in next one year and the guilty will go to jail within two years.

7.       But won't the government appoint corrupt and weak people as Lokpal members? That won't be possible because its members will be selected by judges, citizens and constitutional authorities and not by politicians, through a completely transparent and participatory process.

8.       What if some officer in Lokpal becomes corrupt? The entire functioning of Lokpal/ Lokayukta will be completely transparent. Any complaint against any officer of Lokpal shall be investigated and the officer dismissed within two months.

9.      What will happen to existing anti-corruption agencies? CVC, departmental vigilance and anti-corruption branch of CBI will be merged into Lokpal. Lokpal will have complete powers and machinery to independently investigate and prosecute any officer, judge or politician.

10.   It will be the duty of the Lokpal to provide protection to those who are being victimized for raising their voice against corruption.  

How Jan Lokpal Bill will improve existing anti-corruption systems?

Existing System	System Proposed by civil society
No politician or senior officer ever goes to jail despite huge evidence because Anti Corruption Branch (ACB) and CBI directly come under the government. Before starting investigation or initiating prosecution in any case, they have to take permission from the same bosses, against whom the case has to be investigated.	Lokpal at centre and Lokayukta at state level will be independent bodies. ACB and CBI will be merged into these bodies. They will have power to initiate investigations and prosecution against any officer or politician without needing anyone's permission. Investigation should be completed within 1 year and trial to get over in next 1 year. Within two years, the corrupt should go to jail.
No corrupt officer is dismissed from the job because Central Vigilance Commission, which is supposed to dismiss corrupt officers, is only an advisory body. Whenever it advises government to dismiss any senior corrupt officer, its advice is never implemented.	Lokpal and Lokayukta will have complete powers to order dismissal of a corrupt officer. CVC and all departmental vigilance will be merged into Lokpal and state vigilance will be merged into Lokayukta.
No action is taken against corrupt judges because permission is required from the Chief Justice of India to even register an FIR against corrupt judges.	Lokpal & Lokayukta shall have powers to investigate and prosecute any judge without needing anyone's permission.
Nowhere to go - People expose corruption but no action is taken on their complaints.	Lokpal & Lokayukta will have to enquire into and hear every complaint.
There is so much corruption within CBI and vigilance departments. Their functioning is so secret that it encourages corruption within these agencies.	All investigations in Lokpal & Lokayukta shall be transparent. After completion of investigation, all case records shall be open to public.  Complaint against any staff of Lokpal & Lokayukta shall be enquired and punishment announced within two months.
Weak and corrupt people are appointed as heads of anti-corruption agencies.	Politicians will have absolutely no say in selections of Chairperson and members of Lokpal & Lokayukta. Selections will take place through a transparent and public participatory process.
Citizens face harassment in government offices. Sometimes they are forced to pay bribes. One can only complaint to senior officers. No action is taken on complaints because senior officers also get their cut.	Lokpal & Lokayukta will get public grievances resolved in time bound manner, impose a penalty of Rs 250 per day of delay to be deducted from the salary of guilty officer and award that amount as compensation to the aggrieved citizen.
Nothing in law to recover ill gotten wealth. A corrupt person can come out of jail and enjoy that money.	Loss caused to the government due to corruption will be recovered from all accused.
Small punishment for corruption- Punishment for corruption is minimum 6 months and maximum 7 years.	Enhanced punishment - The punishment would be minimum 5 years and maximum of life imprisonment.

(This movement is neither affiliated nor aligned to any political party)

Please give 1 miss call on 022-61550789 (call automatically gets cut) to support ANNA HAZARE for his 'FAST' against corruption. if the number comes busy please do not lose hope n keep trying.

Also, we as Ambassadors of the Art Of Living Foundation under the guidance of H.H. Sri Sri Ravi Shankarji have started a sign up campaign to support Anna Hazareji and this country.

Be a part of the solution now, it is never too late.

I am personally taking down the names of people who are interested in signing the petition.

If you support the noble cause and want to be part of this victory just reply to this email with your full name, Mobile Number and Email id.

As I mentioned earlier, we have been helping since time immemorial, but today we help with an intention to do good for the country. 

Spread this message...

"This Country has been swinging between Slums and Scams. We have to take responsibility today, that now India sees the Prosperity that it is destined to" - Sri Sri

Thanks & Regards,

In Service of Love :)

Varun Rishi Uniyal | 9823400013