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"Poverty of Imagination", 21st March 2013, IIT-M. CSIR lecture hall. 

The certificate of appreciation and the cash award was given by Sri. Alagar Ramanujam at the annual NDSO  meeting of voluntary agencies in Trichy on the 6th January 2013. Receiving the award (here for Organic Farming) is the Nalla Keerai team that has been supplying Organic Greens to Chennai city, the team consisting of Jegannathan, Gowtham Balaji, Thirumalai, Punitha, Sivakumar and many others. Viveka Virudhugal 2013 - for education being given to Sri. Raja, the visually challenged student who is supporting and strengthening education for visually challenged students across the state like himself.

Samanvaya is happy to announce two awards in the name of Swami Vivekananda as its celebration of his 150th birth year in 2013.  The awards are primarily meant as an encouragement and appreciation of small efforts by individual or groups that are making large difference by their dedication, novelty, passion and capacity to inspire. The award consists of a small cash award and a certificate of appreciation. The two awards that have been instituted by Samanvaya and were awarded on the 6th Jan 2013 at the annual NDSO Conference of Voluntary agencies held in Tiruchirapalli. Over 1000 volunteers and agencies from across Tamilnadu  participated in this event.   The two awards are in the following categories -  1. Organic Farming - for individuals and groups involved in inspiring work to promote organic farming and food during the year from across the state. 2. Self-reliance in Education - exemplary work in the field of education (not limited to school...

"The Traditions We Teachers Belong To" , Ramakrishna Math, Chennai. 16th July 2012 morning 10 a.m. Teacher's Workshop on the Ocassion of the 150th Birthday Celebrations of Sri Ramakrishnananda Swamiji, the founder of Chennai Sri Ramakrishna Math. (more details here) .

Looking forward to training on 'Food & Nutrition' to several batch of NSS students who as part of their annual camp will carry 'health and nutrition' awareness in the villages in Kancheepuram district. These students are drawn from several engineering colleges in the district. In all over 250 students will undergo intense exercise on skills and information that they will pass on to the villages, including, emergency first aid, resuscitation, knowledge on local nutritious food, etc.  Apart from these, we will also be training the field survey personnel for the health research work in three districts of TN next week, teams of about 20 people will work in each district gathering grassroot health care management and governance data.  

Current understanding of health care in society is based on parameters of illness. Most of know more terms and reference points of illness than health to even describe our status of health - 'my blood sugar is fine', 'my BP is so and so', 'my ...'. such indicators are meant to see if we are ill, not to measure if we are healthy! absence of illness is not the only definitely of healthy life, a conscious living even with physical ailments certainly is possible and has proven to be valuable in the life of many great souls. Prajna is a joint attempt by Samanvaya and Ekam Foundation to try to understand health of humans that is linked to their environment, polity, society and economy...factors that adversely impact health, which however are not always factored in while measuring, analyzing and / or understanding human health.  Currently we have initiated studies in two blocks each in  three districts of Tamilnadu, as a beginning of such an understanding ...