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A Second Chance - New Life

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New Life was registered as a non-profit organisation in the year 1993 as it was felt by the philanthropist professionals drawn from fields of Agriculture, Rural Development, Information Technology, and Medicine. The mission of New Life is to help raise the socio-economic status of women and children belonging to the weaker sections of society and thus enabling them to become productive members of society Activity: Counseling of families of the prison inmates, home for poor children, rehabilitation of child labour, supporting primary education, microfinance to poorwomen, microinsurance, vocational training for the youth, social security to terminally ill & consultancy. Support: Education, Health, Livelihood, Rights & Social Issues, Financial & support services. Note: http://samhita.org/ngos/new-life/small_ngo_projects/list | This post is a part of BlogAdda's Bloggers Social Responsibility (BSR) initiative. I am exercising my BSR. You can too with three simple s

The Long Break

So one fine that that India won the World Cup in cricket, yes, in cricket, I know it's hard to believe now when you look at them playing in England. Where was I ? Yes, so basically I got my degree diploma actually. And I flew back to Hyderabad. My joining was about 4.5 months later and I wondered what I would do for such a long time and tried a lot of avenues to find an internship. But I must say it turned out quite fine to just laze around at home and then laze some more watching movies from morning noon to night. But I did other things as well. I read a lot of books . I watched a few movies . I took a couple of trips . I wrote for an NGO called Samhita . I worked on a project with a professor in IIMCal. I received free books to review from BlogAdda . I took up BSR with the help of BlogAdda and Samhita. All in all fun and eventful enough for a vacation. And now I head out to start working for the first time in my life. Excitement! London! Here I come! Also, I shall

My Rant on Chanakya's Chant

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This review is a part of the Book Reviews Program at  BlogAdda.com  Participate now to get free books! Chanakya's Chant by Ashwin Sanghi Westland Publishers (2010) | Rs 195 The idea of the story is brilliant. To try and integrate Chanakya's teachings in today's world of politics. Times have changed but rarely do people change. And through out the book you see distinct traits of people that continue through generations. I do not know if the chant actually refers to the Shakti mantra but here is the trailer and the mantra Adi Shakti Namo Namah! Sarva Shakti Namo Namah! Prathama Bhagavati Namo Namah! Kundalini Mata Shakti! Mata Shakti Namo Namah! The story line alternating between today and 2300 years ago follows similar patterns and similar devious ideas that are used to manipulate people with their greed without giving away a clear comparison thus making it an incredible read. It's about slowly controlling kingdoms by taking over or forming

Not Just A Dot

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"The ‘decimal’ is simply a dot wihin a number. Its position within a number determines what the number means to us. Just a shift to the right or left changes its meaning exponentially.  This is our hope at Decimal. We envision small meaningful interventions, that will change the value of life exponentially, for those touched by us. " The DECIMAL FOUNDATION Activity:  1. Public health improvement (preventive and primary), in both urban and rural areas. 2. Creating a safe working and living environment for marginalized populations. 3. Environmental sustainability. 4. Communicable and tropical disease prevention. 5. Women empowerment and employment generation. 6. Childcare. At Decimal they believe in helping those in need with simple but sustainable solutions. Each solution has an objective of social welfare and a robust business plan backing it. Each project, along with benefiting the target population, is sustainable. Decimal Foundation works on projects from