A Simple Gesture

A little boy selling magazines for school walked up to a house that people rarely visited. The house was very old and run down and the owner hardly ever came out. When he did come out he would not say hello to neighbors or passers by but simply just glare at them.

The boy knocked on the door and waited, sweating from fear of the old man.

Ammanni College

Wonders do happen in the world, and they happen because of the few motivated people.

Few students of Ammanni college put their heart into taking the message of blood donation. Today, there are hundreds of students of Ammanni College who are willing to donate blood voluntarily. There are students who are ready to fight their odds and donate blood voluntarily. And the work of "Team Red" of Maharani Lakshmi Ammanni Women's College, Bangalore paid off.

Summer is approaching....

Rakta Kranti:
(a) Colleges: Towards the end of the semester, the colleges and students’ are busy to be approached. Hence, the volunteers are now working to build up a strong foundation, by getting all the necessary details of all the colleges. This would help them, to approach the colleges next semester.

BRO:Bridging gaps, Connecting lives

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Border Roads Organisation, also known by its acronym BRO,is a unique combination of officers from the corps of engineers of Indian army and Border Roads Engineering Service (BRES) officers from General Reserve Engineer Force ( GREF ) to maintain roads that serve the borders areas. The BRO contributes to the army's other duties and supplies units that are part of the defence forces. BRO's activities have helped to accelerate the economic development of the North and North Eastern border states. The roads construction teams have to deal with some of the harshest climate in the world. The BRO has some formidable hurdles, the icy Himalayan tops, the marshes of West Bengal, the deserts in Rajasthan. BRO undertakes road constructions and maintenance at high altitude in the hills. Some of the BRO roads are built as high as 5,000 metres above mean sea level.

A New Pair of Shoes

When I got sober my sponsor told me that I had to be willing to change everything about my life -- everything. So, I wore blue jeans and switched to slacks. I wore western shirts and switched to T-shirts. But the one thing I just couldn't give up was my cowboy boots.

Beijing Olympics, 2008

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My native is close to Tibet. Recently Baichung Bhutia, the captain of Indian football Team refused to carry the Olympic torch citing personal reasons of having few Tibetan friends. Seeing this, I believe most of my friends have already taken a hard stand.

However, I beg to differ. I started to think why my country is supporting an oppressive government. I tried searching and found some answers:

A Mad Elephant

Buddha never forgot the promise he make to king Bimbisara to return and give him teachings. So when the time was right, he journeyed to Rajagriha. Outside this royal city was a hill called Vulture's Peak, and Buddha and many his disciples went and lived in caves there. King Bimbisara often went to Vulture's Peak to hear the words of the Buddha. The people of the city went also, and soon the number of Buddha's followers grew very large.

Chess : India's pride; the world's envy

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Chess, the game that is beleived to be the 'sport' , excellence in which is achieved only by the best of stratergy makers and thinkers, has a strong bonding with India.Not only it founded here (according to the Encyclopedia), India today houses some of the superstars of the game, whose sheer presence in a tournament gives us hope of another title to India. This article outlines India's long lasting affair with Chess.

The Indian origin of the game of chess is supported even by the Encyclopedia Britannica according to which, "About 1783-89 Sir. William Jones, in an essay published in the 2nd Vol. of Asiatic Researches, argued that Hindustan was the cradle of chess, the game having been known there from time immemorial by the name Chaturanga, that is, the four angas, or members of an army, which are said in the Amarakosha (an ancient Indian Dictionary - S.B.) to be elephants, horses, chariots and foot soldiers.