Happy New Year 2011

New Year comes every year...
But "2011" is a special year which will happen once in a life time.
It will start with a combo.
1st of 1\1\11
after 10 days 11\1\11
after 10 months 1\11\11 then after 10 days again it will be 11\11\11.
Isn't that fantastic ?

For a very special 2011, I extend my best wishes to you and your
family for a joyous holiday season and a wonderful new year 2011.

Happy Deepavali


When light is on its way; all darkness has to go away.
Let this festival of lights bring more light into our lives.

Wish all of you a very Happy Deepavali.

from Lighthouse E-magazine Team and web seva Team Coimbatore.
www.aolcbe.org


Sri Sri Ravi Shankar: Message for Diwali 2010

Interview with His Holiness Sri Sri Ravishankar

JAIHIND TV channel (Malayalam) will telecast an interview of Gurudev on Oct 31 st, sunday at 9.30 pm. Kindly inform everyone.

Once in a life time moment.

Enjoy the moment today at 20 hrs 10 minutes. Yes it is once in a life time moment.
20:10 - 20-10-2010.

Points to Ponder

Mera Bharat Mahaan !!!

We live in a nation ,

Where you get car loan @ 8% and education loan @ 12%,

Where rice is Rs 40/- per kg but sim card is free,

Where a millionaire can buy a cricket team instead of donating the money to any charity,

Where the footwear, we wear ,are sold in AC showrooms, but vegetables, that we eat, are sold on the footpath,

Where everybody wants to be famous but nobody wants to follow the path to be famous,

Where we make lemon juices with artificial flavours and dish wash liquids with real lemon.

Where people are standing at tea stalls reading an article about child labour from a newspaper and say,"yaar bachhonse kaam karvane wale ko to phansi par chadha dena chahiye" and then they shout "Oye chhotu 2 chaii laao....."

Students with 45% get in elite institutions thru quota system and those with 90% get out because of merit.

2 IPL teams are auctioned at 3300 crores and we are still a poor country where people starve for 2 square meal per day.

Where Pizza reaches home faster than Ambulance or police.

Happy Onam - from gopuaol

Indian government online - Very Informative


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Prayer really is capable of healing the sick

London, Aug 5 (ANI): The power of prayer really can help cure the sick, according to a new study.

A US team from Indiana University, led by religious studies professor Candy Gunther Brown, examined the effects of prayer in Mozambique and Brazil where spiritual healing for the blind and deaf is common.

In the African country, a woman named Maryam could not see a hand with two raised fingers from a distance of one foot. But a healer put her hand on Maryam's eyes, hugged her and prayed for a minute.

She then held up five fingers, which Maryam was able to count from the same distance, according to researchers, reports the Daily Express.

She went on to read the 20/125 line on an eye chart - meaning she had 40 per cent sharpness of vision, if judged against 20/20 or 100 per cent perfect vision. Other visually-impaired people also showed improvement after prayers, the researchers claimed.

The team also reported that two deaf subjects showed a 50 decibel improvement in their hearing after spiritual intervention. (ANI)

தமிழ் வாழ்க!!!!! - Welcome to Coimbatore for the World Tamil Conference

Save the Girl Child

People always pray for a boy not for a girl....

blessings of elders are for male not for female...

but in need of wealth people pray to MAA LAXMI....

for success in education they pray to MAA SARASWATI....

for removal of tension they pray to MAA CHINTPURNI...

and

to escape form devil they pray to MAA KALI...

now tell me....

why do people hesitate to have a female in family??
while those whom they pray during troubles are females??

SAVE GIRL CHILD....

if you don't forward this message nothing will happen to you...

your life will be as normal as it is now....

but forwarding this message will surely spread the beautiful message of...


"SAVING THE GIRL CHILD..."


priyanka dubey

When a doctor donated her kidney to a patient

CHENNAI: “It is much harder to do the right thing every day when no one is looking. Donating a kidney is much easier.” Susan Hou only says that because she really believes that is true.

Seven-and-a-half years ago, Dr. Hou, a nephrologist at the University Medical Centre, Chicago, gave her kidney to her patient. “I've had patients ask me for a kidney, but the woman I finally gave it to never asked me. My only criterion was that I should give it to someone smaller than me, and that really narrows it down,” the rather petite nephrologist with a cracking sense of humour says. “The question is not why I did it, but what took me so long. There was much reluctance to use unrelated donors in the U.S. then,” Dr. Hou explains in a chat after a lecture on renal disorders in pregnancy organised by Tanker Foundation on Monday. The strongest criticism came from India, where people said women without rights would be forced to donate one of their kidneys to their husband. Now there are drugs to make unrelated transplants work too. Read more from "The Hindu"

Anupam Mishra: The ancient ingenuity of water harvesting | Video on TED.com

A sign of things to come


Thanks Mr.Karthik Iyer.

Good News for Fire accident victims

If you know anyone who has met with a fire accident or people who are born with problems / disabilities such as jointed ear, nose and mouth, please note they can avail free plastic surgery at Pasam Hospital, KODAIKANAL from March 23rd to 4th April 2010 by German Doctors.

Every thing is free. Contact Nos. 04542 - 240668, 245732

Message from Shri. A.P.J. Abdul Kalam



Please click the image for an enlarged view.

No Bt-ing around the bush, please!

Participants at a public hearing attended by Jairam Ramesh made it clear that they wanted their food to be free of genetic modification

Children protesting loud and clear amused him the most. He stopped by and asked a student of Sri Sri Ravishankar Vidya Mandir why she was protesting against the genetic modification of brinjal. “It’s bad for health,” came the reply. Read more

Wow ! respect to Esthonia.

Campaign "Let's Do It!" - a grassroot initiative to clean up the country from illegal waste in just one day. There was over 10 000 tons of illegal waste lying around all over Estonia.In 2008, 50,000 Estonians got together and did in one day what it would have taken the government 3 years and 22 million euros to do - clean up all the garbage in the country! More than 600 volunteers came together to organize Campaign “Lets Do It!”, a grassroots initiative to clean up the country from 10,000 tons of illegal waste in just one day. This civil society initative shows that we all can make a difference if we want to. ( Thanks to Mona Ingle for the information)

A heart specialist’s prescription for the soul


COIMBATORE: Cardiologist J.S. Bhuvaneswaran has given a different prescription and this one is not just for the heart, but for the soul also. Poems of Bharathiar and Bharathidasan have been made into songs.

Ten songs rendered by him seek to reach deep inside one’s heart as effectively as the imaging capability of a cardiac computed tomography scanner.

Poems of Bharathiar and Bharathidasan that extol Nature and stress the need for humans to live in harmony with it have been made into songs. While Dr. Bhuvaneswaran, the Medical Director of PSG Super Speciality Hospital has sung these, a young musician – Julie Bruce – is the composer.


Shri.Jyoti Basu's great humanitarian gesture.


Shri. Jyoti Basu died in Kolkata Sunday. I had been an admirer of his capacity as a Statesman/Politician/Leader. When I read "Basu not to be cremated; body to be given to hospital" I was overwhelmed by his great last humanitarian gesture by willing his body to a hospital where his dead body can be of use to somebody in some way. Already Jyoti Basu's eyes were donated to a private eye bank on Sunday.

He is a role-model to us even in death. He has left us with a sincere message "PLEASE DONT TAKE YOUR ORGANS TO HEAVEN FOR HEAVEN KNOWS WE NEED THEM HERE" I hope the memory of this rational act will remain alive in the mind of reasonable Indians.

I bow down in respect to this Great Leader. May his soul rest in peace.


M.Gopalakrishnan









Ohm Namashivaya : Art of Living Song, lyrics Dilip Music Damodar Sung By Vishnu | Upload Music

Happy Pongal 2009

உழுதுண்டு வாழ்வாரே வாழ்வார் மற்றெல்லாம்
தொழுதுண்டு பின்செல் பவர்

Meaning

They live who live to plough and eat
The rest depend on them to bow and eat.

On this day of the Harvest Festival "Pongal" (Uzhavar Thirunal) We bow our heads in respect to all the Farmers of this great Country.

M.Gopalakrishnan

Penguins

To end inequity in Education

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The Giving Trees

Soup for the Soul: Christmas Cheer

BY: Kathleen Dixon

Blessed is the season which engages the whole world in a conspiracy of love!
~Hamilton Wright Mabie

I was a single parent of four small children, working at a minimum-wage job. Money was always tight, but we had a roof over our heads, food on the table, clothes on our backs and, if not a lot, always enough. My kids told me that in those days they didn't know we were poor. They just thought Mom was cheap. I've always been glad about that.

It was Christmas time, and although there wasn't money for a lot of gifts, we planned to celebrate with church and family, parties and friends, drives downtown to see the Christmas lights, special dinners, and by decorating our home.

But the big excitement for the kids was the fun of Christmas shopping at the mall. They talked and planned for weeks ahead of time, asking each other and their grandparents what they wanted for Christmas. I dreaded it. I had saved $120 for presents to be shared by all five of us.

The big day arrived and we started out early. I gave each of the four kids a twenty-dollar bill and reminded them to look for gifts that cost about four dollars each. Then everyone scattered. We had two hours to shop; then we would meet back at the "Santa's workshop" display.

Back in the car driving home, everyone was in high Christmas spirits, laughing and teasing each other with hints and clues about what they had bought. My younger daughter, Ginger, who was about eight years old, was unusually quiet. I noted she had only one small, flat bag with her after her shopping spree. I could see enough through the plastic bag to tell that she had bought candy bars -- fifty-cent candy bars! I was so angry. What did you do with that twenty dollar bill I gave you? I wanted to yell at her, but I didn't say anything until we got home. I called her into my bedroom and closed the door, ready to be angry again when I asked her what she had done with the money. This is what she told me:

"I was looking around, thinking of what to buy, and I stopped to read the little cards on one of the Salvation Army's 'Giving Trees.' One of the cards was for a little girl, four years old, and all she wanted for Christmas was a doll with clothes and a hairbrush. So I took the card off the tree and bought the doll and the hairbrush for her and took it to the Salvation Army booth.

"I only had enough money left to buy candy bars for us," Ginger continued. "But we have so much and she doesn't have anything."

I never felt so rich as I did that day.

(Thanks to Nita for sharing the same)
 

Jaigurudev, Mani Gopalakrishnan Pranams to our beloved Guruji, Coimbatore Web Seva Team