Across the street from the Gandhi Ashram in Ahmedabad, India lies one of Gujarat’s largest slums. Most who hear of it expect to find despair, hardship and disease lurking in every corner. While it’s difficult to deny those facts, we came across American-born Ankur Shah, a Stanford graduate, who saw a rare form of beauty [...]
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A Slum Community Kitchen
Posted in Manav Sadhna, Spirituality, tagged Ahmedabad, Ankur Shah, Asha Patel, Current TV, Gandhi Ashram, India, Manav Sadhna, Slums, Stanford on June 2, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Cleansing the Streets as a Ragpicker
Posted in Insight, Inspiration, Manav Sadhna, Spirituality, tagged Ahmedabad, Anarben Patel, Anjali Desai, Bollywood, India, Larry Brilliant, Ragpicking, Ramapir-no-tekro, Seva Cafe on March 3, 2006 | 1 Comment »
Anjali and I decided on an early arrival in the tekra to spend the morning with twelve-year-old Jayshree and her ten-year-old sister Bharti. I walk from a dirt road to tar road, to catch a rickshaw to the ashram where Anarben drives us to the edge of the slum.
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Twenty Four Hours with Manav Sadhna
Posted in Inspiration, Manav Sadhna, Spirituality, tagged Ahmedabad, Anarben Patel, Gaurav Parnami, GIS, India, Indicorps, Kiefer Sutherland, Nipun Mehta, Rish Sanghvi, Viren Joshi on February 19, 2006 | Leave a Comment »
There was a hit series a while ago called ‘24’ which captured 24 hours in the riveting life of some secret agent played by Kiefer Sutherland. Now in India for just over 24 hours, I feel like the last 24 hours in my life have been like watching something like a ‘service 24’ worthy of [...]
Improving India vs. Abandoning India
Posted in Insight, Manav Sadhna, tagged Ahmedabad, Gandhi Ashram, India, Jamnagar, Manav Sadhna, Mark Peters, rickshaw driver on June 23, 2005 | Leave a Comment »
Diplomacy is nice. Courteousness is pleasant. Rules are important. Still, I’m wary of most people who are always diplomatic, courteous, and rule- abiding. While bluntness can often be offensive and inappropriate, there’s an honesty and spontaneity about it that I appreciate even when it’s harsh. Rules create order, but can stifle what’s [...]
