Namaste gets global acceptance

Hungry to learn across the world

Around the world millions of children are not getting a proper education because their families are too poor to afford to send them to school. In India, one schoolboy is trying to change that. In the first report in the BBC's Hunger to Learn series, Damian Grammaticas meets Babar Ali, whose remarkable education project is transforming the lives of hundreds of poor children.
At 16 years old, Babar Ali must be the youngest headmaster in the world. He's a teenager who is in charge of teaching hundreds of students in his family's backyard, where he runs classes for poor children from his village.
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Thanks to Shri.Suryanarayanan Krishnamoorthy for sharing this information.

Let noble thoughts come from everywhere

Thanks to Shri. Arunji for the link.

Amitabha Sadangi, an uncommon hero tackling poverty in India

Right to Education

A refreshing short documentary on the new Right to Education recently granted by the Govt. of India Courtesy Shri.Rahuljain Film maker.

Gandhiji's Favourite Bhajan

Vaishnava Jana To by Pandit Jasraj, Eashwari Pandit, Alka Yagnik, Chitra, Shankar Mahadevan, Sonu Nigam, Jaspindar Nirula & Shaa - The best home videos are here

Mahatma Gandhiji liked this song very much. Here is the lyrics and the meaning.

Vaishnav jan to tene kahiye je

[One who is a vaishnav]

PeeD paraayi jaaNe re

[Knows the pain of others]

Par-dukhkhe upkaar kare toye

[Does good to others, esp. to those ones who are in misery]

Man abhimaan na aaNe re

[Does not let pride enter his mind]

Vaishnav...

SakaL lok maan sahune vande

[A Vaishnav, Tolerates and praises the the entire world]

Nindaa na kare keni re

[Does not say bad things about anyone]

Vaach kaachh man nishchaL raakhe

[Keeps his/her words, actions and thoughts pure]

Dhan-dhan janani teni re

[O Vaishnav, your mother is blessed (dhanya-dhanya)]

Vaishnav...

Sam-drishti ne trishna tyaagi

[A Vaishnav sees everything equally, rejects greed and avarice]

Par-stree jene maat re

[Considers some one else's wife/daughter as his mother]

Jivha thaki asatya na bole

[The toungue may get tired, but will never speak lies]

Par-dhan nav jhaalee haath re

[Does not even touch someone else's property]

Vaishnav...

Moh-maaya vyaape nahi jene

[A Vaishnav does not succumb to worldly attachments]

DriDh vairaagya jena man maan re

[Who has devoted himself to stauch detachment to worldly pleasures]

Ram naam shoon taaLi laagi

[Who has been edicted to the elixir coming by the name of Ram]

SakaL tirath tena tan maan re

[For whom all the religious sites are in the mind]

Vaishnav...

VaN-lobhi ne kapaT-rahit chhe

[Who has no greed and deciet]

Kaam-krodh nivaarya re

[Who has renounced lust of all types and anger]

BhaNe Narsaiyyo tenun darshan karta

[The poet Narsi will like to see such a person]

KuL ekoter taarya re

[By who's virtue, the entire family gets salvation]

Vaishnav..

My respectful Praanams to the Father of the Nation on HIS Birthday.

M.Gopalakrishnan

Today is Senior Citizens Day

Younger generation today needs to get love, blessings, treasure of knowledge from our Senior Citizens. Let us show our gratitude to the elders for all that they have given us in our life. The World should know that we Indians have a rich heritage, culture and we keep our senior citizens not in old age homes but make temples around them.

With our Respectful Pranaams to all the Senior Citizens of the World - Jaigurudev.

M.Gopalakrishnan