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  • 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

  • Contributor Pie

    This is in continuation with my earlier posts about development and working towards social responsibility. The exercise that I am thinking of working on this time around is going to be about creating a task-force of individuals who are keen on making a difference in whatever little possible ways.

    The previous initiatives were successful mostly because of the people involved, in addition to the cause they were aligned to. And its the people who can and would make all the difference in the times to come as well. From how I see it, everyone who is willing to contribute would fall under one of the three areas. Please let me know of some more that you see, and I failed to document. I’d like to capture those, and then start building the database and classifying the people who have responded so far as per their interest areas!

  • 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…

  • Important Announcements!!!

    I am happy to launch two important websites today!!!!
    1. www.sopaan.org : This is the website that is dedicated to my social responsibility initiative and is supported by a group of friends who are as serious about doing some for the society as I am… Initially this would be focussed at raising funds for grass-root level initiatives, and sharing information about various NGOs that are in existence and have a similar mindset. A lot on Sopaan is still under construction or review, and I would keep working on it while its open to everyone to view. Please do feel free to leave comments, share ideas and thoughts, or give me some feedback.
    2. www.AndPictures.net :Photography for me has never been about a picture only, infact its the places, the people, and the moment which is of primary importance for me “and pictures” come later… This website would serve as my online portfolio and is a step towards professional photography.
    I have been able to do this because of the amazing support that has been extended to me from everyone around. I do not dream to make it big, but I do dream to make an impact in whatever capacity I can with time!!!!
    In addition to that, let me also invite you all to a group exhibition that I am a part of.. The exhibition opens on 4th of March in India Habitat Centre, Lodhi Road, New Delhi. Please do make it convenient to attend.

  • 30on30 Updates

    The 30on30 Project got an overwhelming response from friends all around. Here are some of the highlights so far:

    1. Reached the initial goal of raising Rs. 30000
    2. Decided to not stop there
    3. Revised the goal to Rs. 50000 and are about 5K short of it as of today
    4. Even if we reach 50K we would try to continue raising some money till 30th April and do as much as possible

    Thank you everyone who has participated, appreciated, purchased, promoted, and wished for the success of the project.

    And like I said, its not over yet !!! There is still more than a week to go.. please do spread the word around if you have not yet done that.