Wednesday 27 March 2013

[www.keralites.net] Do you remember this lady?

 

Do you remember this lady?
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    "we want  plenty of photos so no one can ever say this did  not  happen".

 
 
Remember this  lady?

 
 


 
 
Irena  Sendler

Died: May 12, 2008  (aged 98)

Warsaw,  Poland

 
 




During WWII, Irena, a Roman Catholic,  got permission to work in the Warsaw ghetto, as a  Plumbing/Sewer specialist.

 
 
She had an ulterior  motive.



Irena smuggled  Jewish infants out in the bottom of the tool box she  carried.

 
 
She also carried a  burlap sack in the back of her truck, for larger  kids.



Irena kept a dog in  the back that she trained to bark when the Nazi soldiers  let her in and out of the  ghetto.

 
 
The soldiers, of  course, wanted nothing to do with the dog and the barking  covered the kids/infants noises.



During her time of  doing this, she managed to smuggle out and save 2500  kids/infants.



Ultimately, she was  caught, however, and the Nazi's broke both of her legs and  arms and beat her severely.



Irena kept a record  of the names of all the kids she had smuggled  out,

 
 
In a glass jar that  she buried under a tree in her back  yard.

 
 
After the war, she  tried to locate any parents that may have survived and  tried to reunite the family.

 
 
Most had been  gassed. Those kids she helped got placed into foster  family homes or adopted.



In 2007 Irena was up  for the Nobel Peace Prize. She was not  selected.

 
 
Al Gore won, for a  slide show on Global Warming.



Later another  politician, Barack Obama, won for his work as a community  organizer for ACORN.



In MEMORIAM - 65  YEARS LATER



I'm doing my small  part by forwarding this message. I hope you'll consider  doing the same.



It is now more than  65 years since the Second World War in Europe  ended.



This e-mail is being  sent as a memorial chain,

 
 
In memory of the six  million Jews, 20 million Russians, 10 million Christians  and 1,900 Catholic priests

 
 
Who were murdered,  massacred, raped, burned, starved and  humiliated!



Now, Iran, and  others, claim the HOLOCAUST to be 'a myth'. It's  imperative to make sure the world never forgets, because  there are others who would like to do it  again.



This e-mail is  intended to reach 40 million people  worldwide!



Join us and be a  link in the memorial chain and help us distribute it  around the world. Please send this e-mail to people you  know and ask them to continue the memorial chain.



Please don't just  delete it. It will only take you a minute to pass this  along.

 
 

 


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[www.keralites.net] Kathewadi : A Village in Maharashtra, shop without a shopkeeper , all houses have toilets and all are free from any intoxicant

 

Kathewadi: A village from another time

Sangeeta Anand visits Kathewadi village in Maharashtra's Nanded district to see anamazing transformation.

We are finally in view of Kathewadi, a tiny village in the back of the beyond in Nanded district in Maharashtra. It's been a six-hour journey from Hyderabad across two states to satisfy our curiosity about this village and its people having turned their lives around. I wonder if things can change. Is it possible in today's times to run a shop unmanned by a shop keeper? To believe that goods bought would be paid for, without supervision?

When we reach Kathewadi, I pass a woman sitting in the tiny portico of her gaily painted hut and as I make eye contact she smiles and motions me to come in. Smiling, she offers me water and shows me around her home. With gestures I convey that we are here to visit their village and take pictures. She offers to accompany us and we head off through the main street. We walk through a surprisingly clean village with clusters of homes neatly painted in a uniform shade of soft pink, soothing our eyes under the hot glare of the sun.

The Art of Living Foundation has adtoped this village and converted it into a model of village life. It founder, Sri Sri Ravishankar'steachings arer painted on the walls of every home in the village. Says writer Babu Patil Biradar, who has now joined us. "We live by Guruji's teachings."


Radha Bai my guide tells me in Marathi, "All our homes have a toilet. We have all collected money and built one outside each house." The pride is evident in her face.

We come to the main temple of the village alongside which is the famous shop. Men and women have come out of their homes to gather for the satsang that they all participate in every evening.

I am introduced to the village elders and after a series of greetings, I ask them about the inspiration behind the shop, unmanned by a shopkeeper, where all the goods are labelled and left for the people to pick up and pay for, unsupervised. I am invited to see for myself.

The linoleum lined floor and the neatly stacked shelves impress me with their quiet dignity. Each product is labelled and marked with the prices. There is a large box in which the villagers put in the money for the items they pick up and another little one markedDaan Peti(donation box) in which they collect money for development work in the village.

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Sangeeta Suryavanshi is another surprise. She is the 25-year-old is the sarpanch of this village. She says, "One member of every family in this village has done an Art of Living course: TheNav Chetna shivirs, youth leadership training programme and the basic course."

"It has brought such a change in our society that we have become totally addiction free. There is amity and harmony amongst all of us, which did not exist before. We have learnt about hygiene and cleanliness and all the money that was spent on vices like alcohol and tobacco is now used constructively. This has happened due to Guruji's inspiration," she says proudly.


"Now we have self help groups of ten people each and these groups solve any issues and implement solutions." An old man is being helped across the street to our side and I rise to wish him. Allauddin Sheikh heads the only Muslim family in this village of 700 people.

"My family has lived here for generations. My son has done the Art of Living Course and he is very happy with all that he has learnt. In all my 80 years I have never seen such a transformation in our village. We live in complete harmony and help each other in times of need."

The music has risen to a crescendo and men and women are dancing in devotion, each face alight with joy, as I take my leave, children reach out to wish me as I wave to them from the bus. Babu Patil's shared confidence echoes through my head all through the journey back to Hyderabad.

 

I had dreamt of a village like this, after reading about it in a book. It has actually happened. Cleanliness, harmony, trust, human values, bonding, this village with a vision surely belongs to another time.

http://news.rediff.com/slide-show/2010/jun/29/slide-show-1-kathewadi-the-village-from-another-time.htm#1

Please pass this on to relatives and friends.

Ravi


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