Half piece of Two Rupee Note in Ahmedabad

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Two pieces of Two Rupee note in Ahmedabad While working for Oxfam I had to attend a workshop in Ahmedabad…To reach Ahmedabad I had to take a flight from Kolkata to Mumbai and from there another flight to Ahmedabad…reached late night… my flight to Ahmedabad was cancelled..hence I had to take next morning flight..the airlines … Read more

Reading under street lights

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As I mentioned in my previous post our village got electricity..May be it was around 1975…now I feel we were lucky to have electricity as even today after 76 years or so of our Independence still many villages have no electricity connections…who are responsible…you all know so I won’t mention here.. what I learnt till … Read more

Electricity to my village

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You all know mine and my families studies were with kerosine lamp for several years of my life… when the first electric pole was installed I can’t explain how Happy we were..and from then on wherever polls were installed our children group followed them… for us the pieces of aluminum wires were precious as each … Read more

Blue berries – Ripe mango

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As you know my village Panchali is in an area categorised as tribal development area. The area is very backward area and the villages are adjacent as the distance ranging from 2kms to 3kms from each village. Panchali is far developed compared to the adjacent villages..hence the villagers comes to Panchali for studies upto 7th … Read more

My association with Interact Worldwide

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I was with UNDP at Bhubaneswar before joining Interact Worldwide..a UK based NGO working in different parts of the world supporting local NGOs… I applied for Country Finance Advisor India position with IWW (Interact World wide)..this position was a Consultancy assignment working from home reporting to IWW UK on daily basis and taking care of … Read more

My work with Concern Worldwide

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Though my career in NGO/Development sector goes back to few decades, I was in break period after my assignment with Interact Worldwide (will write about that assignment). Some of my friends knew that i was looking for some consultancy assignments based in Bhubaneswar but was prepared to move around the projects in the country. One … Read more

Annual Retreat at Goa

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This year – it was 2004 we the HIV AIDS Alliace team of Hyderabad decided to go to Goa for Annual Retreat and Review Meeting. We had a wonderful time in Goa. All staff reached Secunderabad railway station to take a train to Goa. The train that we took is for half way as we … Read more