Yesterday, as part of the

Ranga Shankara Theatre Festival I watched a documentary, "Nero's Guests", made by Deepa Bhatia. There was extensive footage of P Sainath, Rural Affairs Editor of the Hindu, as he showed how poverty is never properly covered by the mass media, even though farmers are regularly committing suicide. The film was made against ( Read more... )

Why is it so hard to have unalloyed joy? I went for a walk to do a lot of chores, and was actually singing under my breath, I was so happy. The sun was out; after the rain, everything was washed and free of dust... I was enjoying myself ( Read more... )

Some of us feel that we can contribute to the world we live in by doing voluntary work. And as long as we are able to contribute well, and regularly, this is very satisfying and is a win-win situation...some good work gets done, and we feel happy at having done something that is not just self-oriented ( Read more... )

I went to watch a children's play at Ranga Shankara a couple of days ago...and though the play was very well done, it set me thinking ( Read more... )

I have been mulling over this whole concept of volunteering to do something, especially for a social cause. Every person has a regular life, and beyond that, sometimes volunteers time, or money, or effort, or all three, to something which is of deep interest ( Read more... )