Cross posted from BorderJumpers, Danielle Nierenberg and Bernard Pollack. We started this trip in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, a place most Americans associate with war and hunger because of the famines of the mid 1980s and 1990s. Even today, more than 6 million people in Ethiopia are at risk for starvation so we think we had […]
9 day Navrata Festival begins under tight security cover at Katra base camp of the holy cave shrine
Katra (Jammu) September 19 (Vijay Kumar) -Nine day Navrata Festival-2009 begins under tight security cover at Katra base camp of the holy cave shrine of Shri Mata Vaishno Devi on Saturday. Festival took to a colorful start with Minister for Revenue, Relief and Rehabilitation, Raman Bhalla inaugurating the mega event at Katra , […]
Taiwan: LiveCast and music for saving rural livelihood
Agricultural issues are getting more and more attention recently in Taiwan, sadly not because of the vibrant development of the agricultural sector, but quite the opposite. In March, I reported about the debate on Statue of Rural Renewal that was about to be passed in Legislative Yuan. Given all the problems and controversies in the […]
The IndiBlogger.in State of the Indian Blogosphere 2009
Renie Ravin of IndiBlogger.in recently shared some interesting data with me from the 7895 blogs that IndiBlogger.in crawls. IndiBlogger.in is a vibrant community of Indian blogs with some excellent features like a topic-wise directory with ranks (IndiRank) and a meme-tracker (IndiVine). I have put together the highlights in an IndiBlogger.in State of the Indian Blogosphere […]
We need hope and optimism, and lead a better life, how Media can help?
“Pessimistic and negative news in the media will spread faster, and may increase curiosity in the short run, but Optimistic and positive news will bring in long lasting change in the society in the long run”. Mantra for bringing in the positive and long lasting change should be to, · Spread Hope, optimism and positivism, […]
Zimbabwean schools unlikely to open
THE 2009 education calendar is set to be distorted as schools are unlikely to open for the first term-slated for the 13th of January-owing to a critical teachers strike, as well as the unavailability of Grade seven results, a teachers body has revealed. Teachers have been on an unabated industrial action since September last year, […]
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