Category: General
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Drought hit Maisai tribes
We met with three ecologists from the Natural Museum of Kenya on the Amrita Children’s home Site. They surveyed the 11 acre plot and gave a lot of recommendations for the property. At one point we spoke to them about the neighboring Maisai Tribe that is suffering from the drought. One of the project officers
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Sannyas for the trees
I was in Sapporo, near the Russian side of Japan. During winter the temperature goes below zero. There was a programme on the Mountain side of Sapporo. Within few days everything will be covered by snow. The snow wipes out the colours and shapes. Everything becomes white. Everything gets a round shape because of the
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Govinda
Little Govinda, less than 2 years old, son of Ramanand and Mahita from Amritapuri, like Sri Krishna enjoying to be a cowherd in Switzerland.
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Amma is a tree; we the flowers
Interview with Ms. Shruti Menon “Selfless service, truthfulness, peace and grace – all combined together is ‘Amma’, according to me. I came to know of Amma after joining Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham for my BSc course. I was very greatly inspired by Amma’s words of wisdom which motivated me to join as a volunteer for doing
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Medical camp at Hyderabad
Amma says , ‘we are not individual islands but a “shrinkhala”,which means we are a chain linked to one another where we all need help and must strive to help each other”. The devotees of Hyderabad had the opportunity to participate in seva for the poor at Gudimalkapur, Hyderabad. The residents, almost all of them
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Serving the poor, serving God
Recently I had been to Madurai to give a class to 6th grade students in a well-known school there. The orientation camp was at our branch ashram in Madurai. The heat was excruciating and for a person who comes from outside the state, it is really difficult to adjust to this weather. All the same,
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Learning from children
If someone asks me what’s your experience with children, having gone to many schools and interacting with them, I will reply, “ They are so sweet, always living in the present, bubbling with energy, spontaneous, not at all calculative, and of course innocent. And because of all that, one just loves to be with them.”