M M Patel During the initial years of the Operation Flood Project, NDDB organized important activities such as Farmer’s Induction Programs for farmers and Training cum Orientation Programs for newly recruited personnel of various milk unions. I had the opportunity to work on both. From 1977 to 1978, I was posted at the NDDB head…
Ramanujam cycled from Manali to Leh in 10 days and then wrote his first blog. I had an easy job. I with his permission copy-pasted it on Vrikshamandir! This is my first ever blog. I had always wanted to write about my first 50k cycling which I did at the age of 56 and half…
There has been rather a long gap in posting blogs on Vrikshamandir. The monotony was broken as Nagar sent this blog. While forwarding this Nagar wrote, “Shailu, I guess this is, as of now the last write up that I have. I seem to have lost the rhythm to write more. It seems you too have…
We came to Canada in July 2020. Since then we have made many trips outside our city. There is a distinct possibility of our return to Bharat Bhumi in November this year. When I look back at more than two years spent outside Bharat Bhumi, I also remember the trips outside the city that we…
I follow Rakesh Krishnan Simha (@ByRakeshSimha) on Twitter. I find his tweets informative, incisive and humorous. Rakesh Krishnan Simha (@ByRakeshSimha) posted a long satirical thread of seventeen tweets to highlight the “alleged” and “imagined” “thinking” of some contemporary leaders, thought leaders and influencers. In Khushwant Singh’s style of “malice towards one and all”, he used…
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Thanks to Tushaar, my Twitter friend from Vadodara on whose website Bharat Parikrama, I read his beautiful story about belief in God. And the duality when in the light of some life experiences one sees the futility of such a belief. And then another critical life event and moments of realization trigger another quest to…
This is second part of the article by Nagar. In order to access the first part of the two part article on poverty and public distribution system please click here. So, How poor are the poor that need PDS support? Two important points to be noted here are: A ration card entitles the card holder…
यह कहानी जिसे मैं अपनी मां से बचपन मे सुना करता था आज भी याद है! मैंने ये कहानी उनसे पहली बार उस समय सुनी थी, जब मैं कोई पाँच साल का था। उसके बाद ये सिलसिला कोई चार-पाँच वर्ष और चला होगा। पर इस कहानी के बारे में विशेषता ये है, की मैंने ये कहानी हर बार गहरी…
मेरी माँ को हमने बचपन से इसी नाम से जाना। १९११ में जन्म और २००८ में देवलोक के बीच की भूलोक की उनकी यात्रा ने संघर्ष ही अधिक देखे। ईश्वर में असीमित आस्था और अपने गुरु- जिन्हें उसने ८-९ वर्ष की उम्र के बाद कभी नहीं देखा, की कृपा में अटूट विश्वास ने उन्हें आध्यात्मिकता…
