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Ek Sparsh

http://eksparsh.wordpress.com

This blog is an attempt to highlight issues affecting India. News related to children, literacy, rural development, environment, health, and arts are gleaned from various websites and posted here.

Added on: Jan 6th, 2009
Country: United States
Language: English

Author: Adarsh Rao
Listed in: News & Media
Tags: india news children environment literacy rural development

Recent Posts

Bosnian Handicrafts

Posted on Wednesday December 23rd, 2009 at 18:02 in bosnia, social initiatives, bosnian handicrafts, lejla radoncic

In the early 1990’s, war raged in Bosnia and Herzegovina. As with every war, this too resulted in lot of traumatized people and thousands of displaced refugees. Displaced people especially women, belonging to different religious and ethnic grou...
Kashmir coming out of conflict trauma

Posted on Monday December 21st, 2009 at 15:35 in health, trauma, conflict, kashmir, doctors without borders

A while ago, I had written about Kashmir’s other conflict. Today, I want to share some good news emanating from Kashmir. BBC News reports that psychiatrists in Indian-administered Kashmir are seeing a sharp decline in the number of post-traumatic...
Save the Seawoods Lake in Navi Mumbai

Posted on Saturday December 19th, 2009 at 17:11 in environment, navi mumbai, seawoods lake

Located in Navi Mumbai, with an area of 30 acres, Seawoods Lake is home to many wildlife species including herons, ducks, kingfishers, and tailor birds among others. Partly encircled by Mangroves, migratory birds such as pelicans and flamingos call t...
Changing poor man’s timber into ‘green gold’

Posted on Monday December 14th, 2009 at 19:33 in environment, bamboo, nagaland, nagaland bamboo development agency (nbda)

Bamboo has been in the news of late for a variety of its ‘green uses’ including a computer maker using bamboo for its packaging! Bamboo has been an intricate part of Naga art and culture. The Government of Nagaland, in an effort to maximi...
Meet India’s tree planting guru

Posted on Wednesday December 9th, 2009 at 13:25 in bihar, positive impact, sm raju, tree planting guru

With the focus of the world on environment this week (due to the United Nations Conference on Climate Change at Copenhagen ), I thought of writing something positive about the climate change topic. Under NREGA – initiated in February 2006 a...
Indian elephants to move from zoos

Posted on Thursday November 19th, 2009 at 06:43 in environment

Elephants in India. Image Source: Theodora.com A spokesman for the Central Zoo Authority (CZA) in India confirmed reports that the authority had issued an order to shift elephants from the zoos. The directive sent by by the Central Zoo Authority (C...