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" बूंद में जीवन "

किसी नल के नीचे बाल्टी रखना, खाली बाल्टी, नल को बंद करके थोड़ा सा खोल  देना, एकदम थोड़ा सा,

एक एक बून्द गिरे बाल्टी में इतना सा ही खोलना, एक एक बून्द जल्दी जल्दी बाल्टी में गिरने लगेगी,

कुछ समय के बाद बाल्टी भर जाएगी, अब थोड़ा सा ध्यान दीजिये,

बाल्टी मौत है, नल ईश्वर है , हमारा एक जन्म नल से बाल्टी तक का सफर है, हवा रस्ते की संसार है,

जितना पानी भरता जा रहा हमारे संचित कर्म है, और हम बून्द है, 

समय की रफ़्तार इतनी तेज़ है की पता नहीं चलता कब नल से छूटे और कब बाल्टी में समां गए,

बस इतना देखना है की क्या बून्द बाल्टी तक पहुंचने में ये जान पायेगी की वो बून्द नहीं बल्कि ईश्वर का अंग है,

जो ईश्वर में से निकल के ईश्वर में ही विलीन होने जा रहा है, अगर बून्द ने ये जान लिया तो फिर,

ना बाल्टी है, ना हवा है, ना सफर है, ना नल है , बस बून्द ही है ,

और अगर नहीं जान पायी, तो काल कालांतर तक ये ही चलता रहेगा |

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Holi - A Saga, Glory, or being woeful

“HOLI HAIIIIII”….. Yes!  It’s the most vibrant phrase uttered by the electrifying crowd of our country INDIA every year.  Holi is known as the festival of colours. It is celebrated with ebullience and mirth on full moon day. In spite of being a joyous festival, celebrating HOLI, hammers us to remember our demean history about Holika side by side in a commemoration of the divine love of Radha for Krishna. This festive officially occurs in spring with Holi celebrated as a Festival of love. Holi gets us close to our religion and inextricably linked with our mythology as it is essentially the celebration of various legends associated with the festival.  Though there are numerous legends describing the holi celebration, the foremost of all are Prahlad and Hiranyakashyap. Hiranyakashyap-the king of that time, full of haughtiness, wants everybody’s devotion towards him. To his great wrath, Prahlad began to worship lord Vishnu. To get rid of his son, the king asked Holika, his sister to enter into a blazing fire, with his son in her lap, as she had a boon to enter fire intact and reduced to ashes.

Additionally, Mythology also states that Holi is the celebration of death of Giantess Pootana who tried to kill infant, Krishna by feeding death-dealing milk to him.

Also, another path led to celebrate Holi, is the legend of Ogress Dhundhi who used to trouble children in the realm of Raghu, and was eventually chased away by the pranks of the children on the day of Holi. Showing their belief in the legend, children till now play pranks and catapult misemploy at the time of Holika Dahan. Celebration of these various myths associated with Holi, reassuring the people about the power of the truth, as the moral of all these legends manifests the ultimate victory of good over evil. Apart from all these parables, holi is celebrated at a time of the year when the fields are in full bloom and people are expecting a good harvest. This gives a people a good reason to rejoice, merry go round and immerse themselves in the spirit of Holi.

There are innumerable ways of memorializing holi in different states of our country. In some parts, it’s a belief that playing with colours help to promote good health as colours are said to have great impact on our body and our health. To further enhance the festive spirit of Holi celebrations we have a social sanction to get a kick with the tradition of bhang, dancing, playing with water etc.

The purpose of Holi is not to celebrate only the positive emotions but in some cases it serves as a legitimate way of expressing negative emotions might also be called for. 

Naturally this should not be used as an excuse for malicious behavior and should be done with a spirit of good humor as; Holi is after all a festival of triumph and euphoria, with the express purpose of healing society, preventing negative tendencies from overwhelming us. Another aspect of Holi is to help us break the barriers we have built around ourselves and our ego.

Also, looking at gloomy side of the festival, some loses their constraints stepping out the limit line! Though the myths are celebrated traditionally, the unexpected inhumanity by the mentally ill devils turns the jovial ambience Blue…! Keeping aside all joy, Centuries past, behind the joyful festival, there’s still a dubious situation for girls or women, “Are they sheltered?” The Question is that- Will perilous attitude last long? Will the sick mind turn optimistic??

It’s a huge question to answer, and yet contradictory!!

By Stuti Holkar

Painted Dome - "Rang Panchami"

28^th March, 2016

Rang Panchami,

Preparing for a celebration for children, which has its deep traditional roots isn’t an easy task when you have to abide by traditions, ensure enjoyable time for children and take care of vision as well as objectives of a social organization. Event Leaders Dr. Pooja, Miss. Stuti and Mr. Hitesh stepped up to take this responsibility and their team supported very well to make this event successful. Special acknowledgement for AnantAman members Atul, Deepanshi, Anupreet, Tanya, Sarang and Anand supported in handling various duties and behind the scenes hardwork.

Pohe served as breakfast to children.

Members making arrangements for music system and speakers.

Members and children dancing on music.

Everything was on schedule and we began with serving breakfast to children because it’s no fun to play on empty stomach. All hustle got attention as the DJ began to roll its sound tracks. It was time for fun, dance and obviously colors. As promised we stuck with our determination of Safe and Dry Holi by entirely eliminating use of water as well as bringing in only Herbal colors. Everyone rushed to grab a fist full of color and chase each other to apply color before anyone else could. Soon the colors were spread everywhere as if some fancy makeup artist took a handful job decorated pretty faces. Pink and yellow, blue and red, green and orange and many more, scattered all around.

There was a moment when eyes got stuck and thoughts began to fly high. Gazing at everyone there and wondering about hidden importance of festivals. They pack so much within that we rarely explore. Every face was so well colored that they all resembled similar. It was hard to point any difference. The differences we use to discriminate humiliate and ostracize others. Yes!! This colorful festival does carry an important message. It teaches us to look beyond colors of skin, names, castes and religions. Colors of holi certainly eliminated all difference to bring every person under nature’s dome to enjoy together.

Music was on and feet were not ready to stop for a single moment of breath. All that one could do is get in mood, get carried with vibes of this festival and put some color. Some possed for selfies while others asked for their portraits to be captured by then responsible man for photography of event, Sarang Rajderkar.

Hurdle race and Sprint race

We continued the fun with several games, Hurdle Race, Sprint Race & more. As time passed by children surely felt roars from within. Tummy was at its loudest speech asking for lunch. On their daily scheduled time without any delay children were served Roti, Sabzi, Kheer and Daal-Chawal as lunch.

Lunch being served to children

After refueling everyone was back for more fun. More dance and some more games were played with kids. Finally concluded event on a high note every one once again wished each other “Happy Holi ~ Rang Panchami”. At last group picture of all participants was necessary for souvenir of a fabulous day with children.

Group picture concluding event. 

“Colors, well they can be pleasing, attractive and enjoyable as well as repulsive, ugly, unacceptable and offensive but Blacks, Reds & Whites shouldn’t be basis for discrimination.”

Some highlights of celebration --->

By Umang Daga

🔹🔹🔹 **...INVITATION..** 🔹🔹🔹

😇🎉Rangpanchmi Celebration..🎊

28th March 2016, Monday..

at,

Aarambh child home, behind Vaishnav Dham near Agarwal Public school, Bhicholi Mardana, Indore

🕰 8:30 am to 1 Pm

You all with your family cordially invited..

Celebration will have..

Breakfast and Lunch for kids,

Dance, Games, fun activities, Gulal_dry holi etc..

कुछ लमहें उन नन्हें फरिश्तो के संघ,
जिनके पास कुछ न होते हुए भी सिर्फ हैं खुशियों के रंग..!!

Regards
AnantAman Social Welfare Society®
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Gulaal !!

Being a Jain I have learnt not to waste water unnecessarily. But being a human I have experienced that never to waste a single moment which who knows can be unknowingly source of joy. Well this situation is truly a dilemma. Now how will I be able to play Holi. Water or colors or just social sites! Excess water usage will ruin my values; colors may be skin sensitive, while just plain texts would be boredom.

Well not wasting water literally makes sense. There is still a major chunk in India which still suffers of this water shortage problem. We people usually go insane when our comfort zones that is a.c., water coolers or fans suffer from glitch and we have to spend just few hours without them. But you know there are still people in this nation whose happiness doesn't lie in such luxurious materialistic things. Their happiness lies in just basic needs such as food, clothe and home.

I have been constantly reading the success story of startups nowadays. Be it the Bangalore Cleanliness startup or Indore's recent Med startup. Wow! Technically we have so much innovation that just one click and get the most desirable stuff ignoring all the vague.  But isn't it true that the more we are becoming technology driven, the more we are forgetting our values.  In India still only 38 percent people have access to internet. Many rural areas are still facing the issue of water shortage, power shortage, food etc. Here the point isn't to be sympathetic towards them. They better know how to prove their capabilities and strive for what they want.

The only point that is being exaggerated is we as future drivers should understand the value of our natural resources and should not take them for granted. We should be careful if any leakage occurs at our surroundings. We should consume only that much water that we require. I have learnt this value from my 4rth standard student.  One day she asked me for water. I served her full glass of water. She asked me to make it half. I asked her why? She replied ' I don't require full glass I just require half amount of it and we should not waste water. I gently smiled and thanked her for opening my eyes. Children may be small but give us big teachings in simplest ways. I f you see today not just Rajasthan even Maharashtra, Madhya Pradesh are equally suffering the problem of water shortage.

Since its Holi, so reminder reminder!! On this occasion we will really prove to be sensitive and tolerant. But to overcome this issue Holi wouldn't be enough we every day need to follow few basics to eradicate this issue such as:

•       Only consume that much of water which is required
•     Use bucket instead of taking a shower
•     Use rice water for washing utensils and mopping
•     In case of any leakage repair it asap

If we all take an oath to follow such basic things we will certainly make this a better nation to reside in.

But the good thing is finally I am out of dilemma. I have found a wonderful way of celebrating Holi. How about celebrating this grand occasion with small kiddos? Because their smile heals every pain and so whole heartedly our AnantAman family invite you on this auspicious occasion of Holi to celebrate it with a social cause on 28^th March 2k16.

This Holi, play safe, go eco-friendly & save water. Dry Holi is best Holi.

Happy Holi

By Poorva Banthiya

OUTDOORS & HEALTH

When I was a kid, summer vacations used to be a most awaited time for me. I could go out to my nani’s place and can visit the farms (natural beauty), play in the garden with my friends until the sun went down. I kept myself quite occupied without any of today’s modern technologies.

Now, exams are about to finish and there are hundreds of television stations, video games, and interactive Web sites that will keep kids occupied for hours on end. Kids staying indoors for a long period of time have prolonged negative effects extending far beyond childhood. They start missing something that is essential for their health and development. Parents think that their child is safe and will not develop any health problems if they stay indoors all the time. The truth is that a child who spends more time indoors gets subjected to Social, Physical and Emotional problems.

There are many health benefits that make outdoor play great for children.

Ø  Control childhood obesity

The prevalence of childhood obesity is increasing; Part of this huge increase is contributed to less outdoor. It's hard to get enough active play and exercise if you're always inside playing video games or watching TV. And without enough exercise, kids can become overweight.

Ø  Bone health

Vitamin D increases with outdoor exposure to the sun. The American Academy of Pediatrics recommends just 10 minutes of early morning sun exposure per day for a good daily vitamin D dose. Vitamin D helps in calcium absorption, protect children from heart disease, diabetes and bone problems.

Ø  Reduce stress

Spending time outdoors has been linked with lower stress levels in children. Playing outdoor games for at least 30 minutes every day can do wonders to refresh and rejuvenate physically and mentally.

Ø  Promote creative and innovation

Outdoors, a child learns on multiple levels with each new adventure (Burdette and Whitaker, 2005). With all of the imaginary castles, lands, creatures, the brain develops at a much faster rate than for those who play indoors. There are numerous effects. Not only do they become better learners, and do well in school, but they are more fun to be around (i.e. they make more friends)

Benefits of outdoor games:

Physical development

·         Physical strength

·         Balance

·         Muscular strength

·         Hand eye coordination

·         Flexibility

·         Weight control

·         Cardiovascular endurance

Social development

·         Citizenship

·         Discipline

·         Teamwork

·         Leadership

·         Confidence boosting

·         Communication skills development

·         Feeling of freedom

·         Awareness

Few examples of outdoor games:

Tracking, Cycling, Walking, Gardening, Hide and seek, Jump rope, Ice water, Sports like cricket, football, basketball, badminton etc.

It’s good for our kids to be outside more often. As a parent, it’s our responsibility to provide varied opportunities for outdoor play, exploration and games.

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<***>Diwali Fest..<***>

One of the auspicious Celebration, pious fest, full of zest, zeal and enthusiasm.

We celebrate this festival with our family, friends, relatives, purchase new clothes, distribute Sweets, visit each other's home to wish and share some time with our loved ones.

It's our pleasure to share this time with those who usually have an eye at their door step that someone will visit and share happiness with them. Some one will come who will bring new clothes, sweets, crackers etc for them. Those ignored kids always wait for kind hearts who would come to devote their time.

With this thought, our NGO AnantAman Social Welfare Society organized Diwali Celebration at Orphange.. 

At 10:00 AM we reached at orphange. When kids there saw us, the smile on their face was unforgettable. Really it was like those kids were waiting only for us.

From 10:15 am onnwards all our NGO members started gathering. Celebration started with small interaction with kids. 

On the demand of kids their at 10:30 am we started making arrangements for 'Dal Bafla'.

All our members shared several responsibility on their shoulders.. 

Suvidhi Sethi, Varnini Poddar helped in placing all our NGO banners, making arrangements for food materials etc..

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Devendra Pandey, Poonam Rajoriya helped in taking care of children.

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Mr. Prateek Maheshwari when entered orphange with his wife and daughter the other kids were more excited to see family at their premises.  

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At 11:30 am Atul Maheshwari made arrangements for cold drinks and light break fast for children. 

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Mr. Umang and Mr. Vidit took charge to capture memories i.e. of photography.

MR. Hitesh Bhawnani made arrangement of Dhol, speakers for the dance & masti.

In this way all the work was delegated among members.

In between Mr. Mahesh Bairagi taken care of food department to make availability of all things required in Dal Bafla receipy and helped Sheff to prepare food for all those kids.

All the things were going smoothly as all members duly taken care of all responsibilities taken and well coordinated with each other.

Dance on Dhol, Rangoli, Jokes, various amazing games etc all this make those kids cheerful, delighted.

Now the children feel hungry and were waiting for the food to be get ready as soon as possible.

By 1:15 pm food was ready to be served to children.

By 2:00 Pm we all got free from lunch and then proceed for the Clothes and Sweet Distribution.

Our members donated New Clothes to kids there and again a small fun activity was organized for them.

When we had to depart from there all the faces looked cheerless and kids were asking when you all will come back?

Although it is true to say that Crackers create pollution but we have to break our rules for a day to bring smile on all those dull faces. We distributed some crackers among kids. 

May be it's a new way for some one, may be it's common way to some to enjoy in this manner but really not only those kids even we all people felt so much joy that when 5 hours passed no one realized. 

"Really these are wonderful memories to preserve"

– Hemant Gupta

महात्मा !!

सत्य से रूबरू कराया था।

अहिंसा का मार्ग दिखाया था।

निष्ठा से कर्म करना सिखाया था।

देश को आजा़द कराया, धोती पहनें — लाठी उठाए ।

देश के पिता बनें, सरे संसार मे महात्मा कहलाए ।

तिरंगा भारत की भूमी पर शान से लहराया था,

बापु के आदर्शों पर मज़बूत देश बनाया था,

परंतू बापू के सपने हम पूरे न कर सके,

ज़िदंगी की दौड में सभी आदर्शों से भटके,

माता-पिता लाचार और बच्चे भूखे है,

शिक्षा तो स्वप्न है पहले सभी मौसम से बचते है,

भूले है सभी शिष्टाचार और परोपकार,

धन, ईर्शा और लालच की है जै जै कार,

बापू भी दुखी होंगे हमे आपस मे लडते देख,

दौलत, जाती, धर्म, कर्म आदी पर बटता देख ।

शायद.....

इस युग मे महात्मा हमारी अंतर आत्मा को बनना होगा ।

सभी को गांधी जयंती की शुभकामनाएं ।

Umang Daga

Walk of Life - A Race, A Chase

Walk of Life

"A never ending race and the great seat chase"

Right to education is a fundamental right of every Human Being, which seems to be violated by the Educational institutions by preventing admission or biased admission process. Parents often claim that admitting a child to a good school has become a feverish experience. They often say that "Admission process is not transparent and even after complying with all formalities uncertainty lies over admission into school". This predicament is created due to limitation of seats in prominent schools and thousands of applicants over them, in near future it is expected to exacerbate. This rush is no far from the day when parents will have to reserve a seat for their child before its birth. Scramble for seats begin soon after Diwali, while academic session starts from May.

We may say that Government is the culprit. But instead of inhibitions by Government, through "Right to Education Act", such as reserving 25% quota of total seats in an institution for economically weaker sections, amalgamations of cacodemon (either be rich or corrupt institutions) have always exploited rules for their benefit and to make money. Without any shame "Temples of Knowledge" demand donations and one time admission fees apart from tuition fees and lunch fees which are already very high. This is resulting in soaring of educational cost and making it more difficult for guardians to educate their children, while we say that education is an initial step towards development of the Nation. But present scenario is not favourable, Opaque admission process, Scramble for seats, high cost and in-affordability of education have become a part of never ending race in walk of life.

Courtesy: The Hindu.

By - Umang Daga.

Janmashtami & Teachers Day

5th September is celebrated as Teachers Day in memory of Dr. S. Radhakrishnan and according to Hindu calander auspicious occasion of birth of Lord Krishna, Janmashtami, was to be celebrated on 5th September 2015.
The day was Bonhomie.

To celebrate this day with little kanhaiyas team of AnantAman Social Welfare Society visited an aashram for underprivileged and poor children. It was 3pm then.

We had planned to organise 'Matki Fodh' competition and a couple of games thus scarce time put everyone to begin preparations as we reached there. Tasks were alloted to everyone just like I was supposed to do photography, decorate 'Matka' etc. Deadline was 5pm and everyone did very well to abide by it. Function was started punctually.

Matki(vessel) containing Maakhan was hung high in air, a challenge for Govindas to rise and reach the height to attain Maakhan. Pyramid of one upon other, aiming to break Matki, rose high from 1 storey to 2 then 3 and collapsed. Enthusiasm, energy and determination drove little ones to try once again - to fail again - to try again until they succeeded. As the proverb says "Koshish karne walo ki kabhi haar nhi hoti" ... Finally they tasted victory with creamy Maakhan. Important lessons were learned while competing for challenge and performing traditional ritual.

It was time to celebrate victory, learnings and birthday of Gopal. Music began, everyone was set with jolly mood, to forget the world around, to enjoy and to dance like no one is watching. Latter children were served with evening tea.

We bounced back to field, it was time for more games -- more fun. 'Toss the ball', 'Frog jump race' & 'Blind fold chase'. Members grouped with children to form teams. Creativity was put to test when children were asked to name their teams. "PK", "D's team" and many more funky names came up. Mr. Hemant Gupta took the responsibility to judge. Hooting, supporting and leg pulling chants echoed loud under the calm blue dome. D's team concluded to be champion with overall best performance.

Gopal's favourite Maakhan was distributed among little Kanhaiyas and their care taker.

Coming towards end, we accumulated memories, fun & smiles shared and alot of learnings. It is truly said, nobody actually have a pure heart like a child.

'बच्चे भगवान का रूप होते है |'


**Special thanks  to Members of AnantAman SWS :-
Hitesh Bhawnani,
Atul Dwivedi,
Moniya Yadav,
Ankit Tiwari,
Mayank Joshi,
Shubham Jain,
Tanya Daga,
Deepanshi Saxena,
Arjun (volunteer),
Aman Navin,
Hemant Gupta.

Report by :- Tanya Daga & Umang Daga

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OP-ED

"प्रजातंत्र"

यह कौन सा तंत्र है

षड्यंत्र ही षड्यंत्र है

वैश्विककरण का दौर है

हर आदमी यहाँ चोर है

दिल नहीं यह दौरा है

काहे का ढोंग धतूरा है

धर्म का मुँह काला है

अधर्मी का बोलबाला है

भ्रष्ट ही यहाँ शिष्ट है

स्वार्थ में सब लिप्त है

खादी के भाषण झूठे है

अपने बन सबको लूटें है

हर मानव बेरोजगार है

रोजगार की दरकार है

चारों ओर सूखा हतै

किसान यहाँ पर भूखा है

देखिये जनहित सरकार है

सर्वत्र भ्रष्ट और भ्रष्टाचार है

कहने को प्रजातंत्र है

जहाँ षड्यंत्र ही षड्यंत्र है..||

By: Mrs. Vandana Chaudhary

#ChildWelfare

Eradicating children for vicious circles and helping them rise, we constantly strive for.

Calm mind brings inner strength and self confidence. So that's very important for good health.

AnantAman SWS arranged proper health nutrition for kids @ orphanage.

Coordinator : Mr. Hitesh Bhawnani