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Being in Twenties Something … It is when you stop going along with the crowd and start realizing that there are many things about yourself that you didn't know and may not like. You start feeling insecure and wonder where you will be in a year or two, but then get scared because you barely know where you are now. You start realizing that people are selfish and that, maybe, those friends that you thought you were so close to aren't exactly the greatest people you have ever met, and the people you have lost touch with are some of the most important ones. What you don't recognize is that they are realizing that too, and aren't really cold, catty, mean or insincere, but that they are as confused as you. You look at your job... and it is not even close to what you thought you would be doing, or maybe you are looking for a job and realizing that you are going to have to start at the bottom and that scares you. Your opinions have gotten stronger. You see what others are doing...

the druids of a lost tribe : The Georges, Sittlingi i was there. to sittlingi, to visit regi and lalitha george. to witness a true story of inspiration, the passion with which they area serving to tribals. my words will fail if i try to explain the experience. experience with nature and innocence. i have copied story abt them featured in outlook and hindu. Are you missionaries or Naxalites?" Dr Regi M. George was asked, when he approached the Scheduled Tribes Commission in Tamil Nadu for statistics on adivasis. George and his wife, Lalitha Regi, were neither. They were doctors from Kerala, a decade into their careers, looking for a place forsaken by the healthcare system. A 70-km bone-rattling drive into Tamil Nadu's Dharmapuri district brings you to what they found: Sittlingi. In this impoverished cluster of 21 adivasi villages, with a population of 10,000, they set up home and hospital 13 years ago, with little money and much family opposition. "We don't let rigou...

heard them chatting - catch them live nandan nilekani chats up with indra nooyi http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/News/News_By_Industry/ Cons_Products/Food/Nandan_Nilekani_chats_up_with_Indra_Nooyi/ articleshow/msid-1568995,curpg-1.cms premji & murthy http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/articleshow/1614824.cms (if the link is not working copy paste it in your address bar) credits: economictimes.com

INDIA BEATS India Beats features stories of the unusual, the exotic and the extraordinary every week in The Hindu. This story was inspiring. Eco vision - A man and his passion M. Yoganathan, a bus conductor, is on a mission to convince students of the importance of conservation. Many schools in Coimbatore are familiar with the figure of this man hitching his precious burden over his shoulder and marching in to talk about Nature. ROUTE number 92 — from Marudumalai to Cheran Mahanagar and back. M.Yoganathan makes the 50-km round trip at least four times a day. He is a bus conductor. Besides the conducting business, he is busy converting young people to his cause, wildlife conservation. Fortunately for him, many educational institutions are located along the route his bus takes — the Agricultural College, Law College, Krishnammal, Hindustan, PSG... Ever ready An old slide projector in a battered black bag accompanies him wherever he goes. "You never know when and where I may ha...

Wedding Vows Credit:Mr.Nipun and Guri.[www.ijourney.org ] Do you, Nipun and Guri, pledge to help each other in developing your hearts and minds, cultivating compassion, generosity, ethics, patience, enthusiasm, concentration and wisdom, as you age and undergo the various ups and downs of life, and to transform them into the path of love, compassion, joy and equanimity? Do you pledge to grow in dharma? Do you pledge to support each other's journey, to continually shine light on each other's virtue, and support individual intuitions, even when it doesn't directly benefit yourself? Do you pledge to reinforce and complement each other's virtue? Understanding that just as we are a mystery to ourselves, each person is also a mystery to us. Do you pledge to seek to understand yourselves, each other, and all living beings, to examine your own minds continually and to regard all the mysteries of life with openness and joy? Do you pledge to trust the inexplicable ways of the univ...