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Colours of spring

By ⋅ March 22, 2005 ⋅ 3 comments

Colours of spring, orig­i­nally uploaded by anita. I love the beau­ti­ful colours in spring time. It’s all too brief though. And the pur­ple and yel­low flow­ers only blos­som for about a cou­ple of weeks but they look incred­i­bly beau­ti­ful. I took a walk around the neigh­bour­hood a few days ago and cap­tured a few of […]

2731 CRORES

By ⋅ January 21, 2005 ⋅ 3 comments

The total aid pack­age approved for reha­bil­i­ta­tion and recon­struc­tion in the tsunami hit areas as announced yes­ter­day. Accord­ing to the Finance Min­is­ter, P Chi­dambaram, this is the first install­ment of the relief pack­age. We hope it gets to the ones who need it the most, and in time.

Bangalore-Chennai-Chidambaram-Cuddalore-MGR Thittu

By ⋅ January 17, 2005 ⋅ 15 comments

A quick update and a bunch of pho­tos. We drove about 1300 odd kilo­me­tres in 3 days, trav­el­ling from Bangalore-Chennai-Chidambaram-Cuddalore. And then beyond Cud­dalore to a few vil­lages in and around the area. We crossed over to a really beau­ti­ful island vil­lage called MGR Thittu, lit­er­ally swept away by the tsunami. The peo­ple have all […]

Chennai to Cuddalore

By ⋅ January 14, 2005 ⋅ 12 comments

Reached Chen­nai in the after­noon after a longish but pleas­ant drive. Met up Kiruba, Nanda, Suman, Chi­tra. After some dis­cus­sion, we headed out to the AID India office and met Anu who is coor­di­nat­ing with vol­un­teers. She gave us some use­ful info about the vil­lages to head to and also sup­plies we can take with us. […]

Heading for Chennai

By ⋅ January 11, 2005 ⋅ 6 comments

A few of us (Arun, Suman, his wife Chi­tra, Vasu) will be in Chen­nai over the long week­end (Jan 14–16). We will be work­ing with Kiruba and Nanda who have been involved in such activ­i­ties from Chen­nai. One of the activ­i­ties will be to go into the nearby vil­lages to iden­tify fam­i­lies for spon­sor­ship for […]

Help a child get back to school

By ⋅ January 10, 2005 ⋅ 2 comments

Narain, direc­tor of 360 Degree Inter­ac­tive has launched this effort from to help kids get back to school. The cost of each kit is Rs.225 and you can do your bit, by vis­it­ing this link.

Help required

By ⋅ January 6, 2005 ⋅ 14 comments

Dilip D’Souza has been trav­el­ling through the tsunami affected areas in TN and is report­ing via his blog. His SMS despatches can be found at ChiensSans­Fron­tiers. Amit Varma is another reporter from Mum­bai who is cur­rently in TN and blogs at India Uncut. You can also read more news at Waves of Hope: A non […]

new beginnings. new year.

By ⋅ December 31, 2004 ⋅ 13 comments

new begin­nings. new year., orig­i­nally uploaded by anitab­ora. Wish­ing all of you vis­it­ing JALS an absolutely gor­geous 2005. This beau­ti­ful sight I encoun­tered in Hampi on Christ­mas Day has remained entrenched in my mind. With all the tragic events that fol­lowed, these are the moments that become even more pre­cious. I do hope you like it. Love […]

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