Friday, September 26, 2008

Respect for others, Peace for all

India is the only country where people from minority communities can stay peacefully and exert all their democratic rights. This is possible only because the majority of Hindus are courteous to people from different faiths.

 

But when their humble character is taken for granted and the outsiders start taking advantage of it in their evangelist works (often by denigrating the local customs, culture, deities and faith), there is bound to be some repercussions. And it resulted in the violence where many people from both the communities suffered.

 

For peace to sustain there has to be effort from both the sides. Just like it is impossible to clap using one hand, it is not possible to maintain peace when one community has the motto of humiliating the faith of the other community.

 

The kind of violence that is happening in India now-a-days cannot be instigated by any organization; it is the feeling of the oppressed people which gets burst under specific situations. The case in Orissa got flared up after the repeated attacks on Swamiji for his curt criticism towards the evangelist missionaries where as the case in Karnataka was the by-product of the hatred mission instigated by the magazine "Satya Darshini", endorsed by some biblical community.

 

The underlying point is that, we need to have respect for others if we want peace for ourselves.

Let us join hands for Orissa flood relief work

For any query, feel free to contact seva-blr@googlegroups.com

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Namaste,

It seems the bad days are going to linger in Orissa. First it was the riots & now floods. It's the worst flood to hit Orissa in past 50 years affecting about 38 lakhs. More or less you are aware about that. These people need our help. With winter ready in the wings, they need to settle down before the end of October.

UBSS:

We have decided to be a part with UBSS who are currently involved in rehabilitation activities. Established in the year 1982, the Utkal Bipanna Sahayata Samiti (UBSS) made its first valued contribution in the aid of cyclone affected people of the state in the year 1982 itself. Be it flood, cyclone, famine or sunstroke deaths or any form of natural calamity, the dedicated volunteers of UBSS have fought against all odds to reach the people in their hours of crisis. For details please log on to www.ubssseva.org.

1.Artha Dana - Assist financially for rehabilitation work
2.Bastu Dana - Donating old or new blankets/winter wears (which will be done later)
3.Srama Dana - Visit Orissa, be a sevak (volunteer) & work for the people

Artha Dana:

Donations can be made directly to the AXIS bank account of UBSS whose details are as below.

Name- Utkal Bipanna Sahayata Samiti

AXIS Bank: Ac No-024010100043982

Branch- Satya Nagar, Bhubaneswar

Donations (cash/kind) may be send to Utkal Bipanna Sahayata Samiti in the name of "Utkal Bipanna Sahayata Samiti" at the following address.

Utkal Bipanna Sahayata Samiti
PLOT NO.- 41,SECTOR - 'A', ZONE-D,
MANCHESWAR INDUSTRIAL ESTATE
BHUBANESWAR - 751010,ORISSA
PH - 0674 - 2585708, FAX-0674 - 2586509
EMAIL -
seva_ubss@yahoo.co.in

In case you are not comfortable transferring to AXIS bank please feel free to contact us at seva-blr@googlegroups.com.

Donations given to Utkal Bipanna Sahayata Samiti is exempted U/S80 G of the Income-tax Act, 1961, videLetterNo.-ITO(Tech)/80G/ R-22/2004-2005/67, Dt.-Bhubaneswar theApril 7, 2005 valid for the Assessment years 2005-06 to 2007-08.
Bastu Dana:
We have plans to collect blankets from various parts of Bangalore in near future. We are not able to go ahead with this because of lack of volunteers.
Srama Dana:
Time is the most precious thing expected from you. You are always welcome to visit any seva kendra & guide the work.
Please send a mail to seva-blr@googlegroups.com with the following information.
Name    Contact No   Email Id  Time From  No of Days Seva Place of Interest (if any)

Seva-Blr
Few of the people involved in the group are,
1. Jyotiranjan Nayak,      9880177828 (Philips)
2. Santanu Pradhan,       9845144126 (Tektronix)
3. Ajit Kumar Kar,            9980792497 (Dell)
4. Debashis Prusty,          9449974132 (NXP Semiconductors)
5. Parsuram Panigrahy,   9741265019 (Ocwen)
6. Pravas Kumar Panda,  9480170979 (Sun Microsystems)
7. Debashis Mishra,         9739049002 (Capegemini)

NB: All the donations will go to Utkal Bipanna Sahayata Samiti (UBSS).

Subhamastu.
~Tushar