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My Life, My Passion: Love for the red light girls – Praveen & Priti Patkar

My Life, My Passion:  Praveen Patkar and Smt. Priti Patkar This was one of the most touching guest lectures. Pravin Patkar began the session with an analogy of the city’s waste dump yard to the filth of the society, i.e., human trafficking. He described the current situation of the children on the streets and made […]

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Dance with Love: workshop by Lakshmi & Sunil

This is one of the workshop children enjoyed most. Lakshmi explained and demonstrated the forms of dance, Bharatanatyam and Kathakali with special reference to the similarity and differences between them. They reiterated that the classical dance forms of India are not merely a movement of the body, but involves the dancer’s being one with God. […]

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My Life, My Passion: Love for the computers by Dr. P Venkat Rangan

My Life, My Passion: by Dr P Venkat Rangan, Vice-Chancellor, Amrita University Dr Rangan began the session by narrating how AMMA influenced his life in 1992 when he met her in Los Angeles and learn to shift his thinking from brain to heart.Associated very well the networking speed in transferring knowledge between the “two super-speed […]

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Health & Hygiene – Workshop

Health & Hygiene – Workshop by Dr Rahul Lakshman & Dr Lakshmi R Lashman Dr Rahul Lakshman and Dr Lakshmi R Lakshman Began the session with the WHO definition of health and stressed upon the importance of social and spiritual well being which is often ignored.He mentioned different types of sufferings an individual undergoes and […]

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My Life, My Passion: Love for the Elephants – Binoy Behera

 Binoy Behera, ADGP Bhuvaneswar had an excellent Interaction with the students in the guest lecture – My Life, My Passion. He stressed the importance of means to reach the goal rather than the goal itself. Motivated students to study and become what they love. Asked the students to have a proper role model by giving […]

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Inauguration of first Gitamritam 2012 Bala camp

Inauguration of first-ever Gitamritam at Amrita Vidyalayam Mysore on 15th October 2012. Gitamritam is a 7-day residential Bhagavad Gita camp for children.

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Students arrive for the first Gitamritam camp

Karwar students arrive via train for the camp at the early hours of 14th Oct 2012.