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Children Out of Sight, Out of Mind, Out of Reach

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The latest State of the World’s Children report by UNICEF has been released. Below is the press release from last month. (You can find previous years’ reports at here.) Abused and Neglected, Millions of Children Have Become Virtually Invisible LONDON, 14 December 2005. Hundreds of millions of children are suffering from severe exploitation and discrimination and have become virtually invisible to the world, UNICEF said today in a major report that explores the causes of exclusion and the abuses children experience.

Nov.23
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Reservation and the real problem

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The story about the reservation saga continues in India. I am sure this will also whimper down like the Mandal Commission protest in 1991. The problem is that there is a problem in India – and we are no where near a solution. Neither having reservation nor not having them will solve. While I personally am against the concept of using special coaching for preparing for entrance examinations (and I did not use them for my preparations for my Engineering entrance!) the following story – forwarded to me by a…read more

Jun.08
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Asha for Education – Photo Exhibition

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Recently two students from ETH (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology) Zurich visited all the Asha Zurich projects in India and documented the work using photographs. Few exhibitions are being planned across Switzerland of these photographs. More details are here (in German.)

Feb.14
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Nach Baliye

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Feb.03
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India 700k Project

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Objective: Bring rural development work done by Govt, NGO programs, individuals onto the same page by building an integrated webpage for every village, leaving no village behind What is new? 12/30 – Irlad village details added. Added several web-based administrative functions including rich-text editing. 12/27 – Asha Colorado considering approval of Asha Honor Academy Fellowship for Harsha, Sathyapriya; Raj Rajaram from IDCA has come forward to support Harsha’s honorarium 12/27 – Irlad village overview added. (Data from Harsha, Asha Mumbai) 10/15 – Post Tsunami survey data added. (Data from Sathyapriya…read more

Jan.23
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Dressing Smartly – and weather friendly

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I was just reading an essay by Sachidananda Murthy on The Week of 22 Jan 2006. He writes about the changes in weather and the pains in dressing appropriately. He goes on to talk about some smart technology being developed by IISc and other Indian organisations. Somehow reading it, I felt amazed at how trivial in some ways we have become. Smart wardrobe – sounds great – but when you read more about it – its ridiculous I feel. I live in a country that has extreme climates. Just yesterday…read more

Jan.23
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Photos from Notes of Hope 2005

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Here are some photos from the Notes of Hope 2005 concert we had here in Zurich by Pt. Shivkumar Sharma on Santoor. Preparation Concert Well, I am not there in any of the photos except for hidden in the last group photo and image IMG_1010.jpg; almost looks like I wasn’t part of it at all – almost true 😉

Jul.11
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Asha for Education – top charity by charitynavigator.org

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Asha for Education has been ranked no. 1 by Charity Navigator in their top 10 list of charities in the US. These 10 charities are not only tops in terms of fiscal health, but also for respecting the rights of donors. Charity Navigator has awarded each of these 10 charities a 4-star rating for both organizational efficiency and organizational capacity. Besides outperforming its peers in terms of financial management, each of these charities also has a donor privacy policy in place. This tells us that these 10 charities are committed…read more

Jul.01
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Notes of Hope 2005 – Shivkumar Sharma

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Jun.09
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Notes of Hope 2005 with Pt. Shivkumar Sharma

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We just had (on 28 May 2005) our second concert in Zurich as part of the Notes of Hope series. Pt. Shivkumar Sharma and his son Rahul were the artist this time (last time it was Pt. Hari Prasad Chaurasia). It was a great concert – first half was mostly classical rendition – during the second half they played more folk tunes. I could hear lots of music from the film Silsilay coming through, and Lamhe too sometimes. It was also amazing to see father and son peforming together –…read more

Jun.02
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