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Camping at Honemadu:Western Ghats

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Bihar Flood Relief:We topped in Speed of Fund Collection

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Eco Tourism

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Water Conservation and Aids Awareness

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Sneak Pic

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With Journalists:Social Journalism

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Fish @Pai Hubli

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Finally the Bengali Ashu..comes to the fore enjoying fish at Fish Land

My Sweet Heart

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The Google way:Bharat Ram's R&D India Head's Style

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Only 7% Indians know the English Language Imagine what the Internet means for rest 93%Almost all Internet Users have disposable Income Out of 200 billion webpages there are only 20 million Indian Webpages The digital Divide is due to: Absence of Content Barriers to access Lack of Contextually Relevant Applications Google offers what user MEANT to ask not what user asked What can we as individuals do to bridge the digital divide? Be involved in Translation Understand Information that they need and deliver them Communicate,Collaborate and Raise their awareness of technolgy at their Disposal Non Profit sector suffers from Problems of Scalability Inherent Systemic Issues Work like their are in Prenetwork age Remember: Revenues will follow if the idea is good Hire the very best The job of technolgists is to make jobs simple We must not need manuals So what if the poor cannot read or write they can look for Audio and Video Three things that make Innovations A bottom Up approach Rewarding peo

Working our way with Child Beggars

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BAIF President :Mr Hedge

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Gokak Falls:Sunday Outing

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Spotlight on Mental Retardation

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Mental retardation has specific causes Before Pregnancy Mother's Mental and Physical ConditioonDepression and a sense of learned HelplessnessI can't do it Anxiety of what will happen Nutrition all affects the child,She needs double food for child and Herself Iodine is crtical to her dietIf mother is on Unprescibed diet it affects the child During Pregnancy Half attempted abortion results in mentally retarded child Papaya and Bitter Guard are known to help abort pregnancy xray also affects the child Minimum brain damage is caused by forcible delivery Hypoxia-Low quantity of oxyygen by twisting of umbical chord Prolonged delivery results in loss of fluid that smopthens delivery After Pregnancy Babies with meningitis ,encephalitis become high risk Retartdation is a condition not a disease.So there is no question of curing it Mental Illness can be cured Mentally retarded children can be mentally ill and not viceversa If a drug is used for more than 1o years for ementally ill they s

Bihar Floods

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The worst affected districts: Supaul, Saharsa, Madhepura, Araria, Purnia & Katihar 866 villages destroyed - India Today Rs. 10,000 crore loss - India Today More than 2000 camps are needed for the displaced - India Today As per Sahara TV, who have special correspondent in the affected area, it is feared that even one lakh people might have lost their lives “The floods have pushed Bihar back to 50 years” -Rameshwar Prasad, a local historian

Saathi-The one place I feel home

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Best uses of pits dug for Plantation

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As a dustbin and As a Sleeping spot so so so....................sweet

Early Mornings rather Late nights :)

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I am gone crazy

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Project Hari-ya-Ali :Getting the Saplings

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Bhatts Bday

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Innovations@MIT

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One Early Morning at Unkal Station

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Presenting India Without Beggars LFA

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The Rocking dude from Vatsalaya

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Hari-ya-Ali

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K V Girish:A man of Convictions

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He came and made me feel so good for being up and clear with my convictions. I had not met someone so clear with what conviction could mean.I felt privileges sitting in his Guest Lecture. Thanks Sir

A sight you can choose to ignore or act on

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Open Manholes

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The dangers of open manholes are not unknown,sometimes a child read "prince" falls in and the entire nation is glued to the idiot box following it as a saga of human spirit . The big question is what are we doing to avoid it. May be a small action from our side could make a small change. The change comes only when we act.
A group of children were playing near two railway tracks, one still inuse while the other disused. Only one child played on the disused track, therest on the operational track. The train is coming, and you are just beside the track interchange. Youcan make the train change its course to the disused track and save most ofthekids. However, that would also mean the lone child playing by thedisused track would be sacrificed. Or would you rather let the train go its way? Before Scroll down for answersLet's take a pause to think what kind of decision we could make................ Most people might choose to divert the course of the train, and sacrificeonly one child. You might think the same way, I guess. Exactly, to save mostof the children at the expense of only one child was rational decision mostpeople would make, morally and emotionally. But, have you ever thought thatthe child choosing to play on the disused track had in fact made the rightdecision to play at a safe place? Neverth