Posted on February 24, 2007 by Rahul Dewan
This beautiful article written by Sri Sri Ravi Shankar, appeared in the Hindustan Times: http://www.hindustantimes.com/news/181_1930245,00120001.htm. Key points in the article with my notes:
Every morning the Puja in Tirupati temple is first offered by the Scheduled Caste Banjara community
Dalits have to assert their rights rather than turning their back on Hinduism; It isn’t solving anything otherwise
Dalits [...]
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Posted on February 24, 2007 by Rahul Dewan
The domestic help at my mother’s home, and somewhat of a younger brother to me, Puran Chand Swain, went home to his village near Puri in Orrisa in December 2006. The state of the government run school was as pathetic as ever.
Puran explored the idea of running a school with one of his friends, a [...]
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Posted on February 24, 2007 by Rahul Dewan
On 31 October, 2006, we started another school for the underprivileged children in Nehru Place - right outside the office of our funding software services company - Srijan Technologies.
Pics coming up soon.
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Posted on February 24, 2007 by Rahul Dewan
We financially support a non-formal school for underprivileged children at Vasant Kunj, which is run by several volunteers from the upmarket residential colony, under the untiring and highly committed efforts and leadership of Col. (Retd.) Ramakrishna. In the running of the school, Mr. Prasad, a retired Railways officer, is no less motivated than Col. Rama.
Some [...]
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Posted on February 23, 2007 by Rahul Dewan
After months of waiting and conceptualising ideas for implementation of Srijan Foundation’s website, it finally occurred to me to take a baby-step forward and setup this Blog.
For months on end this project has been getting pushed aside, as the bread-and-butter projects of our software services company - Srijan Technologies - which funds Srijan Foundation, always [...]
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