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Scarcity of resources often makes people despondent. People learn to adjust, adapt or just succumb. But, sometimes they transcend the adversity through a creative innovation. Let me share one story in which the scarcity of water triggered a very interesting innovation in cotton. Vikas Shinde and his wife Pramila own nearly half a hectare of land in a village named Pingalwada in dry part of

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A response to blog posts like this one.Well, you have an alternative. Read up the Honeybee database on sustainable agricultural innovations available at sristi.org and honeybee.org.You can use the open source example of farmer-based solutions to your problems. Please try these out and write to us.For example in cotton growing, you can plant okra around the cotton crop as a border crop. It belongs

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Here is Vinoba Bhave sharing his thoughts on Gandhi:When, still a child, I was drawn by Bengal and the Himalayas. I cherished dreams of going to these places. In Bengal it was the upsurge symbolized by Vande Mataram that called me, in the Himalayas it was the Jnana-Yoga. When in 1916 I left home I wanted at the same time to go both to the Himalayas and to Bengal. The city of Kashi was on the way

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It's Gandhi's birthday today. In perhaps a statement of our times, I was first reminded of him when I saw him on the homepage of Google. :) Then, I thought of my dear friend Jayesh Patel at the Gandhi Ashram, who is an exemplar of Gandhian values; and at some point, I happened upon an unread book sitting on my desk -- A Higher Standard of Leadership: Lessons from the Life of Gandhi, by

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An article by Ramachandran Guha, on Aug 16, 2009:It is well known that when India became free on the August 15, 1947, Mahatma Gandhi declined to join the festivities in New Delhi. While his follower, Jawaharlal Nehru, spoke in the Council Hall about India's tryst with destiny, and the crowds danced on the streets outside, Gandhi was in Calcutta, seeking to restore peace between Hindus and Muslims

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In March 1904, when Gandhi was about to embark on a 24-hour journey from Johnnesburg to Durban (in South Africa), his friend Henry Polak gifted him a book to read on the way. It was a small booklet of four essays that transformed Gandhi; in his own words, "I could not get any sleep that night. I was determined to change my life in accordance with the ideals of the book."Unto His Last, by John

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A while back, I had heard a story from Gandhi's life that gave me goosebumps. "My greatest weapon is a mute prayer," he used to say.I happened to be leafing through page 418 of Rajmohan Gandhi's biography of Gandhi and thought I'd post the full account as it appears in the book:There was talk of threat to Sardar Vallabh Patel's life. Then, on 16 April, a 600-strong mob of sword-swinging and

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“Why don’t you go to India and see for yourself what the Mahatma, whom you so admire, has wrought,” friends told Martin Luther King, Jr., after the successful conclusion of the Montgomery bus boycott in 1956. By the time he accepted Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru’s invitation to visit India in February 1959, King saw himself as a “pilgrim” to “Gandhi’s land.”This year's fiftieth anniversary of

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Ms. Joan Huguneard from California, a Peace Activist participated in Pilgrimage of Peace to India in December 2008 - January 2009 for a month. She garlanded the statue of Mahatma Gandhi in Acharya Nagarjuna University, Guntur, Andhra Pradesh.

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Real Swaraj will come not by the acquisition of the authority by a few but by the acquisition of the capacity by all to resist authority when it is abused. In other words, Swaraj is to be obtained by educating the masses to a sense of their capacity to regulate and control authority. - Mahatma Gandhi

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Prasad with Abhinav Agarwal in Stanford University

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In the introduction to his Autobiography, "The Story of My Experiments with Truth", Mahatma Gandhi outlines the purpose of his autobiography, his intentions which will give us a better insights into him, his thinking and will make us reflective. I hope you will all find it interesting and useful. - Prasad.THE STORY OF MY EXPERIMENTS WITH TRUTH OR AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF MOHANDAS K. GANDHI

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I strongly believe in the sanctity of human labor। Men and women must perform their duties with devotion. Not to labor because of one's being wealthy is unholy. Work with the hands is the apprenticeship of honesty and a recognition of fellow humans' toiling.- Mahatma Gandhi

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I am in California visiting people interested and working for better society. There is a need for all the good people to connect themselves and organize. We are more scattered and are happy doing what we do. Put the efforts together. Our work needs to be guided by a careful thought process. We see problems or issues before us that need to be attended. We need to go beyond the solutions.

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On behalf of Sarvodaya Prasad:The present week is productive and useful with flow of ideas to and fro. I shared perspectives on India and the trends that are setting in and what we as concerned citizens can do. Through this process of sharing, we have initiated the first step to understand ourselves. This blog is a means through which I wish to share my thoughts, feelings, activities and

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