When we visited Bendakal village in Osmanabad district for our PRA training by TISS Tuljapur we were visiting various stakeholders of the village. During our visit to Asha karyakarta’s house, I saw Suman maushi with a toe ring of a fish design. I was so intrigued by the design of the fish. It was the […]
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MAUSHI
Motherhood is said to be the purest form of human existence and the essence of motherhood is not just giving birth to a child but much broader. It isn’t defined by gender or blood relations but by actions. The divine relationship between Maa Yashoda and Shri Krishna is a vibrant example of how even a […]
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A journey of laughs
Human beings are activated and motivated by emotions and express these emotions in various forms and one of the most common form is laughter. Well it sounds so easy to understand the emotions if it is expressed in some form but alas! It is as complex to understand the most simple expression ‘laugh’ as it […]
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Mitti
I never knew that life would take me on a journey where I’d get to breathe life into a saying that goes,” Mitti se, mitti par aur phir mitti mein, to phir ghuroor kis baat ka?” (Moulded of clay, living on it and one with it in the end – what is your arrogance about, […]
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Love you Zindagi!
Everything is possible.. अगर किसी चीज को दिल से चाहो तो पुरी कायनात उसे तुमसे मिलाने की कोशिश मे लग जाती हैं.. You will get what you want, be patient.. I used to think that these are all just dialogues used in movies or to motivate people. But now when I see my journey for […]
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Towards Contribution
Have you wondered whether the work you are doing is really meant for you? Have you seen some folks and wished you could go there and do what they are doing? I did. I always did! I was the person who kept looking for new opportunities, always jumping from one thing to another. Then I […]
Daan Utsav, October 6, 2022. Virtual On a bright Thursday noon, around ten volunteers (college students & working professionals) connected with around forty teachers in a village located miles away from their cities. They exchanged roles for the next two hours, as the volunteers shared their knowledge of English as a Secondary Language (ESL) with […]
With a nervous yet an excited heart, I bid goodbye to my family and hopped on the bus to Pune for my JSW Foundation Fellowship induction training! Clueless about what was yet to come, I had decided that I’d keep myself open to the new experiences waiting for me. Little did I know that the […]
What has 2 thumbs, painted palms, smudgy paints on their clothes, a satisfied smile and an urge to do good for the society? A volunteer at our painting activity! 🙂 62 power packed superheroes put on their metaphorical capes and heed our call to paint the world of children from an orphanage home. What followed […]
Head and tail are two faces of a coin which are totally different; I also experience same kind of difference while conducting my first activity with one of our volunteering partner, NGO based out some rural area having their beneficiaries. In our day to day activities we use English as primary language for communication but […]
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