It was a melange of spirituality and business at IIM Indore. Swami Samarpanananda of Sri Ramakrishna Mission Vivekananda University (Belur Math) gave the future business leaders of the One Year Full-time Executive Post Graduate Programme in Management (EPGP), lessons in how to develop and channelize their spiritual and mental energies to achieve excellence in the [...]
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Gita Abhiyan to inculcate ‘human values’
Gita Abhiyan to inculcate ‘human values’
13 districts have been covered under the programme
One teacher from each school attend workshop
Bangalore/Chitradurga: A religious organisation is on a mission to spread “humanitarian values” by teaching Bhagavad Gita to schoolchildren across the State. The Education Department, while not acknowledging this as one of its own programmes, is nevertheless playing [...]
Hindu epic Mahabharata retold — tweet by tweet
NEW DELHI (Reuters Life!) – An ancient Indian epic about princes, demigods and a cataclysmic war is getting a makeover on Twitter — 140 characters at a time.
Chindu Sreedharan, a U.K.-based lecturer, is retelling the Mahabharata using the micro-blogging service, hoping to lure readers with creative snippets posted in chronological order.
“This is not quite [...]
Bhagavad Gita in Braille Script
New Delhi July 18th 2009: It was a radio programme on the visually impaired that motivated a 16-year-old boy in a remote village in Bihar to learn how to read and write in Braille some day. Twenty-six years on, B B Chaudhary, a visionary cop has managed to translate the Bhagavad Gita into a script [...]
World’s Smallest Bhagwad Gita
Tanishq launches World’s Smallest Bhagwad Gita
Thursday, April 23, 2009
Bhubaneswar: Bhagawad Gita is one of the most sacred and religious scriptures of Hinduism. It is also described as a practical, self-contained guide to life. Tanishq, India’s largest branded jewellery retail chain, riding on their design expertise and urge for continuous product innovation, today, launched the World’s [...]
Bhagavad gita distribution at US motels
Bhagavad Gita Distributed at Hotel Owners Convention
By Rita Gupta for ISKCON News Weekly on 11 Apr 2009
Asian-Indians own almost 65% of the total motel rooms available. Our goal is to place Bhagavad-Gita As It Is in every one of those rooms,” says Milan Doshi from the Pancajanya Project. “The motel [...]
Gita & The Game Theory
While on vacation, I had a chance to read an interesting article from a book that my niece Akshaya picked up. The book is called “Games Indians Play: Why we are the way we are” and is authored by Prof. V. Raghunathan, former professor of IIM Ahmedabad, who also holds several positions in the senior [...]
Gita in Bangalore Schools – A proposal
Article from the Times of India – 19th September 2008
BANGALORE: The state government is seriously considering a proposal to include Bhagavad Gita in the school curricula.
Tirupati temple to give `Bhagavad Gita’ to prisoners
I came across this interesting news item..
In an attempt to bring a change in the mindset of prisoners, Tirumala Tirupati Devasthanam (TTD) has decided to gift them copies of “Bhagavad Gita”.
The TTD, which manages the affairs of Lord Venkateshwara temple at Tirupati, said it would distribute copies of the holy book among prisoners lodged [...]
