All the best for your life ahead! :)

When did you steal these from my mind ?.
Really, If I get to that phase.. I am gonna use all these to make the match :). Your take on education is questionable though. Seems you are too much into the ‘Engineers are good at analytical thinking’ stuff (probably because of the consequent benefits of reasoning mind) . Not disputing that. But in our times compassion is the trait to go with.

I’ve had a great learning experience from your marriage and commitments. Trying to add my two cents inspired by it as well.

Though society by and large remains a killer I’ll be doing my bit within the norms trying to keep all the parties at bay !

I also had points something similar but it was looking for more straight forward answers than for any cues.

I have received a massive number of comments – here and on emails, many finding this an idea worth adopting; but not sure how many have actually done it. A friend of mine adapted this theme (he somehow couldn’t do away with some of the luxury) to “matching donations” – donating the exact amount (2 lakhs in his case) he spent on his wedding, to various social change groups.

Rohit

I wonder if there is any place where we could challenge the claims made by this advertisers, and get an incentive if the claims are proved false.

Each advertisement basically tells us that we lack smthng or there is smthng wrong with us ….and it will be all be right if we go buy their product. Ads make us unhappy..!!

Advertisements are supposed to help us make a rational buying choice.But more and more of ads are completely devoid of any information, more and more they rely on exploiting sone or the other emotional insecurity of human mind. Either socially acceptability, peer pressure , shame as Darshan pointed out, sexism, stereotyping, jealousy (onida ad) etc.

@Selva: Yeah, man. Corbet has been on my radar for some time now.

Highly inspired …. Thank you !!!
I have all these ideas in my mind for long time and i consider those as dream projects !! Will give my best !!

Cheers to you !!

Pls update your blog post with the direction map to AET Orphanage:
http://maps.google.com/maps/ms?ie=UTF8&hl=en&msa=0&msid=111748551681950391258.00046eb924f06088f146c&z=19

Even though this post describes charity and its intention very well, the need for charity needs to be emphasized more. The charity should become integral part of everyone’s daily routine. Just like how we take out a portion of monthly salary and put it aside for future savings, we need to be doing the same for charity. As described on the post, there are many NGOs out there who can be benefited greatly from regular donations as it helps them plan their activities better.

For people who are religious – no matter what religious holy book you refer to (Bible, Geeta, Qur’an, etc), you will notice religion asking followers to adhere to charity for noble cause, for humane work (for God’s work). Some holy books have even gone to the extent of calling one a thief, if he/she uses all of their money for themselves and their families only and doesn’t take out a share for needy people.

I find this post to be an eye opener for anyone who has yet not integrated charity as part of his/her life. Thanks for this post and keep it up.

Thank you so much for being a caring person. I care, myself, and know many who do. But I am more and more discouraged by the U.S. population’s inability to care – and about the U.S. being a kind of model for the corruption of the world. I am trying to do some things, but there is one bad thing they have us doing here in the U.S. now that things are so horrible. We are expected to refrain from discussing politics (and social issues) in public among “polite company.” If we dare to do this, and do no agree, it could ruin friendships that otherwise are strong. So this is the way they keep many of us complacent. They make us feel bad about discussing our world.

I will check back often. Keep up the good work. And remember : it does make a difference, what you are doing. The world will never be perfect. But all of this is totally worth doing.

Peace ….

It’s good to see that you mentioned a few examples on what bit we can do to change the world.

Three cheers to you!

What confusion are you referring to? If it pertains to “Invest in solar energy …”, I put it that way because both the modalities are possible: You can make a pure donation towards a solar panel, and also “invest” in the same with likely interest earning and guaranteed capital return, after some (typically, 2-4) years.

And by the way you might want to look into your confusion between charity and investment.

:)

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Goli

When living in Pakistan, G-6-3 in Islamabad I set up my own simple solar water heating. A very long length of black plastic hose that I coiled on my roof. The length worked as a water store in itself. One end was connected to the mains (actually my roof mounted water tank) the other came to the kitchen to its own hot water tap. It works! Okay you can only use a pipe lengths worth of water but on a sunny day its sometimes less than an hour to heat up again! It doesn’t work in the winter nor at night. Also we only used it for washing. Had I stayed longer we would have used it for bathing.

The cost, well I think it was about 30 metres of pipe and a few fittings and a tap. A hole drilled through the wall and a join into the outlet from my roof tank. Certainly a tiny fraction of what I paid for my hot water panels in the UK!

Basically, don’t look at modern ‘technological’ solar water heating and say you can’t afford it. Go for the appropraite option.