Travelling

I will be in away for a week, back mid next week.

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Turning Dreams to reality against all odds

There are the dreamers and then there are the doers. This post is about one such person – Dr. Prakash Vinjamuri. An incident in his life early on changed his entire perspective towards life. The result was the birth a dream, a vision that believes in developing informed citizens, so that we have a just [...]

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AOL presents the first Annual Womens Conference

The International Association of Human Values presents the first Annual International Women’s Conference entitled  Shakti, The Strength of Women: Celebrating Success  at the Bangalore Art of Living Ashram during June 2 – 4, 2005.   
I had blogged about this earlier and the post can be found here. Originally planned for last year, it got cancelled [...]

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Help recreate the green cover

Here is an opportunity to help re-create the green cover in Bangalore. Parisara an Environment Protection Organization has come up with an idea of selling saplings that will be planted in and around Thippagondanahalli reservoir.
Not only will the NGO plant the saplings, they promise to ensure its growth and maintenace, each tree will have the [...]

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Story Telling and PM

[From ASK overview]NASA Academy of Program and Project Leadership (APPL) publishes a magazine called ASK, which is available for online viewing. The ASK Magazine grew out of APPL’s Knowledge Sharing Initiative. The stories that appear in ASK
are written by the ‘best of the best’ project managers, primarily from
NASA, but also from other government agencies and [...]

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Stormy Seas

A routine visit to the family physician the other day turned out to be more than just routine…..A suspected  prognosis, that does not look so good. I have a follow up with a specialist tomorrow evening. When I heard the possible causes from my doctor, I turned pale…didn’t knew what to do….instead of continuing to [...]

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The miracle tree

I look forward to reading Guruji’s column published every alternate Sunday in The Sunday Express. This week Guruji dwells upon the intuition and the capacity of mind to heal; he ends the column putting the entire lifespan in perspective:
That mind also has capacity to heal and to
elevate itself. It is full of joy, ease and [...]

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Interminable WorkDay!

[Via Sadagopan] A link to an AP story on "interminable workday". Not sure how many of you feel the same way, but the average workday seems to be bordering on the insane…and the word is right – interminable – with the never ending calls, emails and compressed schedules.
Interestingly, very recently a colleague and I took [...]

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Every deep desire is a prayer

The Bhagvad Gita for daily living by Eknath Easwaran has been my companion for months now. I relish reading a few pages from this three volume set every night before I go to bed. Of all the books I have read, this three volume set stands apart for a lucid and crystal clear explanation of [...]

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Here’s more evidence that Meditation

extends your lifespan.
Webmd features the same report and asks a great question, Which (meditation practice) works best?
Answering the question, it goes on to quotes Harvard psychologist Ellen Langer, PhD, who has written three books
on the "mindfulness" technique. Ellen says it is unlikely that one meditation
conveys more health benefits than another.
"Rather than saying that [...]

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