November 2024

Dear Friends,

Namaskaram!

Henry David Thoreau (July 12, 1817 – May 6, 1862) was an American naturalist, essayist, poet, and philosopher. A leading transcendentalist, he is best known for his book Walden, a reflection upon simple living in natural surroundings, and his essay "Civil Disobedience" an argument in favour of citizen disobedience against an unjust state. Thoreau's books, articles, essays, journals, and poetry amount to more than 20 volumes. In this issue, we have given some of his quotable quotes.

This month, in our front page, a professor of a college teaches us with a novel play of balloons that “if we care about other people’s happiness, we’ll find ourselves too”.

In happenings section, we have covered (i) Follow up visit of “Harit Aarogya” and Harit Aajeevika project (ii) Workshops on “Traditional Siddha Varma Bone Setting Practices” (iii) Training programme on Natural farming (iv) Follow up training and implementation work of Harit Urja (v) Revival and Renovation of Traditional Water body and (vi) Visit to Selvanayagapuram etc.

In the wisdom section, extracts from Gobar Times gives us a glimpse of Bhutan’s work in trying to develop Grass National Happiness – GNH rather than GNP. Shri. N.Krishnamoorti, Senior worker of Vivekananda Kendra explains the danger of giving Primacy to the Body and finally Dr. M. Lakshmi Kumari, Director, Vivekananda Kendra, Vedic Vision Foundation beseech us to come out of the web for the Inner Development. For reading the newsletter, please click here.

With best wishes

G.Vasudeo,
Secretary
Vivekananda Kendra - NARDEP
Kanyakumari - 629 702, Tamilnadu. 
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