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Tag: 2012

  • देश प्रेम

    तिरंगा झंडा देख कर ये ख्याल आता है

    के ये ख्याल कभी कभी ही क्यों आता है

    साल भर ये देश प्रेम कहाँ चला जाता है

    और एक छोटे से बदल की तरह दो-चार दिन की बारिश कर गायब हो जाता है

    देश प्रेम है, दवाई नहीं, जो दिन में दो बार ली जाये

    देश प्रेम है, मिठाई नहीं, जो हफ्ते में एक बार खाई जाये

  • Pustak Promos

    Have received an encouraging response to Pustak so far, and I would be going out to collect a few books tomorrow from some locations…

    Here is another promo poster for the campaign

  • Pustak – A ShikshaDaan Initiative

    Please do check the following presentation on details of the initiative. Feel free to ask questions and/or distribute the link further to gather support for this project..

    [slideshare id=13767490&doc=pustak-shikshadaaninitiativev0-3-120726135056-phpapp01]

  • Need books, magazines, and loads of support!

    Starting work on a Book Collection project for a school library near Lucknow with ShikshaDaan… Support in the form of books/international magazines or volunteering to drive the project in your own capacity welcome!

    Some high level activities to be included…
    1. Collection centers in and around NCR for a couple of weeks required. If you could get some work around in your organization and collect it from people, GREAT!
    2. Volunteers to drive around and collect it from homes/offices

    Some more..

    • Planning to start in about a week’s time
    • Work on what is required (Books, magazines, journals etc.)
    • Putting the team in place

    Please leave a comment here if you would like to be involved in any capacity…

  • Second cup of tea!

  • Clay and Dust Weekend

    First half of the last weekend was spent making things out of clay.. here are a few pictures…

     

     

    And this was followed by shooting a rally in the summer heat accompanied by loads of dust, on the sunday!


    Though I completely sucked at shooting the Rally, it was a huge learning experience nonetheless! I am looking forward to a few more events and hoping to get better with time at shooting the motorsports!

  • Vote for my friend Manu

    A very dear friend of mine, Manu is one of the contestants in the FBB RJ Style-o-meter contest… and I need everyone at Chai ki Dukaan to help me get more votes for him… Here is what you need to do..

    • Go to http://www.facebook.com/fbbonline/app_429999373692037
    • Please click on the tab “FBB RJ styl-o-meter”
    • Select RJs in Delhi
    • Vote for RJ MANU- Dilli ka DABANG

    Or

    Go to https://www.runtimesolutions.in/facebookers/fbb_rj/city_delhi.php

    Look for RJ Manu and click on Vote now!

  • Sustained initiatives would make a better impact

    The progress so far…

    • My first fund raiser involved sale of paintings by kids which had won a prize in the competition organized by myself and a few friends in Moradabad, UP. We managed to raise about Rs. 13000 in a short duration of time and give that money to Sankalp, a unit of ASK India.
    • My second fund raiser was called 30on30…. It was about raising Rs. 30000 by selling 30 of my photographs.. and it went on to raise Rs. 79000 in about a month’s time. This money was donated to Sankalp again.
    • My third fund raiser was called 1ka100. It involved a drive from New Delhi to Mumbai, and involved donations which would support every km of that drive. More than Rs. 70000 were raised and divided in two for two NGOs that the core team personally selected.

    Time to do something substantial again, and this time around it has to be bigger than ever!

    A question that I ask is: If I was able to raise about Rs. 200,000 by taking up a cause and with some outstanding support from a core team.. What could we do with more people leading from the front, and a core team formed which would sustain these initiatives… Reach out to more people, get more people involved, get more speakers, be more active..

    The idea this time around would not be to do a one off drive, but build a model that would sustain itself…

    Next post, I hope to write about a few ideas that I have, and understand your perspective on those…

    In addition to all of these things that I intend to do, taking photographs for NGOs has been and would always be a core of my social responsibility…

  • We the ________ people!

    Why don’t we sit down and try to fill in the blanks?

    We  the corrupt people?

    We the emotional people?

    We the strange people?

    We the Indian people?

    We the undisciplined people?

    We the hard-working people?

    We the rich people?

    We the poor people?

    We the sensitive people?

    We the people who care?

    I like to believe that we do care.. in some form or the other, and someone gets some benefit too! but our care at times is limited to that one week of inspired living right after we see a TV program like Satyamev Jayate!

    Last month including yesterday, I’ve had some long conversations about what does it take for people to contribute to the welfare of society. My conversations were limited to mostly how a larger percentage of people in big corporates  are not willing to donate something as little as Rs. 100 a month to a cause.

    Let’s look at the potential… for a company of about 5000 employees, I would assume that everyone is taking home atleast Rs. 10000 every month on an average. Rs. 100 would not be more than 1% of their monthly salary for atleast 60% of this population. Assuming they are ok with donating this 1% of their salary, we are looking at an average of Rs. 3,00,000 every month which can be donated to a cause. Let do some more maths.. how about looking at the annual potential for this 5000 people strong company? Going by the above calculations, this organization can donate Rs.  36,00,000 every year.

    A couple of NGOs that I know need not more than Rs. 15000 per annum ensure one kid’s education all inclusive (including fee, uniform, books, and food). Time for another calculation… Rs. 36,00,000 could help sponsor 240 kids. and what does this take? Rs. 100 a month from every individual in a company of 5000 out of which only 60% people (3000) are willing to donate. The issue is that these 3000 individuals who are willing to give away Rs. 100 every month are extremely difficult to find!

    There is enough information available with individuals and organizations about good NGOs, which are validated and audited against multiple parameters, and I am sure if we want we can find out atleast one NGO which is doing a good job on the ground. I know of a few personally, and I am in the process of finding out about more.

    If you are reading this and wondering what can you do about it, here is what I think you can…

    • Leave a comment on this post and if you are ok  a way for me to reach out to you
    • Find atleast 1 person other than yourself who is willing to part with 100 bucks a month for an year

    That’s it! I would work towards bringing the right information to the willing donors, and let them take a decision. I have been able to play an instrumental role in raising funds earlier with about 4 projects which were mostly individual driven, and am looking for support to start with another!

    Let me know if you are willing to do what it takes!

  • Radha @ 98765

    The countdown has begun!!!

    Was the best! stays that way!