Sunday, January 31, 2010
How to Be Charitable, Even Without Money!
Unless you’ve been living in cave for the last few days, you’ll be aware of the recent devastation that hit Haiti.
It’s tragic stuff, and it deserves our attention and support – there’s no doubt about that.
When something like this occurs, the main job of charity organizations like The Red Cross is to get the word out to the masses.
Food, water, administration, insurances, transportation and any other miscellaneous elements to a relief campaign cost money.
They send their message to us across all channels – the web, the tv, the radio, the papers, billboards and magazine advertisements. It’s pervasive, which is to say a day doesn’t go by where we aren’t asked to give money.
Now, take this into consideration. Here’s a list of all the natural disasters that happened in 2009 recorded by reliefweb.int (this doesn’t cover the unnatural disasters like wars, torture, deforestation, pollution, mass murder etc.).
Overall there were 133 disasters from that year alone!
That’s a lot of disasters right?
Do you think that it’s unreasonable that a person on minimum wage or middle-class should donate money to every one of the disaster relief funds of that year? I thought so too. But a lot of people are left feeling guilty that they didn’t do their part.
The reality of the situation is that too many people equate charity to forking out cash. The reality of the situation is that there is suffering happening all the time, in all parts of the world – not just when you hear about it in the mainstream.
Don’t fall into the trap of thinking that money is the only way that you can help people – because it’s all too easy and it’s untrue. Equally, don’t fall into the trap of thinking that foreign aid is the only way that you can make a difference.
Of course there are issues abroad that need to be resolved – but let’s not forget the ones at home!
HOW CAN I HELP WITHOUT SPENDING CASH?
I’m here to remind people that charity does not mean “open your wallet” but rather “open your heart”. LOVE is what we practice when we donate, whether that donation is of our money, our time or otherwise.
I’ve taken the time to compile a list of ways that YOU can be charitable without opening your wallet:
FIGURE OUT WHAT YOU’RE GOOD AT AND FIND WAYS OF USING THOSE SKILLS TO HELP OTHERS
I regularly offer charity organizations help with their marketing.
VOLUNTEER TO SERVE A COMMON CAUSE IN YOUR LOCAL AREA
Have a look on the web or in the papers for a way that you can help with local charities. There are many ways you can help such as:
helping out at a local homeless or drug rehabilitation center
spending your time at a listening post, giving people the opportunity to share and be heard
Helping out at orphanages
working pro-bono at local charity offices in administration
PROMOTE CHARITIES THAT YOU RESONATE WITH ON YOUR WEBSITES AND BLOGS
Julian Habib does this on his Facebook page, and is a good example of how even just clicks can help get relief aid to where it’s needed.
BE THE MESSENGER – BE VOCAL
Share your concerns with your family, friends and colleagues by simply educating people about what’s going on in the world. Change can happen when people are aware of what needs to be changed.
REALIZE THAT WITHOUT YOU, YOU CANNOT BE CHARITABLE
It’s the story of the chicken and the egg. Your eggs (offerings) are so much more powerful when you are in a perfect state to be able to give birth to them! Think of how much more of yourself you could share if you had an abundance of free time, money and power.
Recently Google hinted at moving away from China as a search engine provider there. Some seem to think that it is a tactical strategy to get China to loosen up their censorship regulations, since Google now own a considerable share of the search engine marketplace.
Even if this is untrue, it’s a great example of how you should be thinking of ways of leveraging your own position in order to get the things done that you feel most passionate about. If you can’t do them today, don’t sell out and do them half-heartedly. Plan ahead and plan BIG.
CONCLUSION
Focus on what’s important. Are you going to have more of an impact on the world if you throw a dozen dollars now and again at the world’s biggest charity organizations, or if you go out and meet real people and see first hand how your presence impacts their lives or the ecosystems or the planet?
There’s no right or wrong to this answer – but believe me – exclusively donating money is not the name of the game – your ability to share yourself is.
Courtesy: http://www.bitrebels.com/lifestyle/how-to-be-charitable-even-without-money/
It’s tragic stuff, and it deserves our attention and support – there’s no doubt about that.
When something like this occurs, the main job of charity organizations like The Red Cross is to get the word out to the masses.
Food, water, administration, insurances, transportation and any other miscellaneous elements to a relief campaign cost money.
They send their message to us across all channels – the web, the tv, the radio, the papers, billboards and magazine advertisements. It’s pervasive, which is to say a day doesn’t go by where we aren’t asked to give money.
Now, take this into consideration. Here’s a list of all the natural disasters that happened in 2009 recorded by reliefweb.int (this doesn’t cover the unnatural disasters like wars, torture, deforestation, pollution, mass murder etc.).
Overall there were 133 disasters from that year alone!
That’s a lot of disasters right?
Do you think that it’s unreasonable that a person on minimum wage or middle-class should donate money to every one of the disaster relief funds of that year? I thought so too. But a lot of people are left feeling guilty that they didn’t do their part.
The reality of the situation is that too many people equate charity to forking out cash. The reality of the situation is that there is suffering happening all the time, in all parts of the world – not just when you hear about it in the mainstream.
Don’t fall into the trap of thinking that money is the only way that you can help people – because it’s all too easy and it’s untrue. Equally, don’t fall into the trap of thinking that foreign aid is the only way that you can make a difference.
Of course there are issues abroad that need to be resolved – but let’s not forget the ones at home!
HOW CAN I HELP WITHOUT SPENDING CASH?
I’m here to remind people that charity does not mean “open your wallet” but rather “open your heart”. LOVE is what we practice when we donate, whether that donation is of our money, our time or otherwise.
I’ve taken the time to compile a list of ways that YOU can be charitable without opening your wallet:
FIGURE OUT WHAT YOU’RE GOOD AT AND FIND WAYS OF USING THOSE SKILLS TO HELP OTHERS
I regularly offer charity organizations help with their marketing.
VOLUNTEER TO SERVE A COMMON CAUSE IN YOUR LOCAL AREA
Have a look on the web or in the papers for a way that you can help with local charities. There are many ways you can help such as:
helping out at a local homeless or drug rehabilitation center
spending your time at a listening post, giving people the opportunity to share and be heard
Helping out at orphanages
working pro-bono at local charity offices in administration
PROMOTE CHARITIES THAT YOU RESONATE WITH ON YOUR WEBSITES AND BLOGS
Julian Habib does this on his Facebook page, and is a good example of how even just clicks can help get relief aid to where it’s needed.
BE THE MESSENGER – BE VOCAL
Share your concerns with your family, friends and colleagues by simply educating people about what’s going on in the world. Change can happen when people are aware of what needs to be changed.
REALIZE THAT WITHOUT YOU, YOU CANNOT BE CHARITABLE
It’s the story of the chicken and the egg. Your eggs (offerings) are so much more powerful when you are in a perfect state to be able to give birth to them! Think of how much more of yourself you could share if you had an abundance of free time, money and power.
Recently Google hinted at moving away from China as a search engine provider there. Some seem to think that it is a tactical strategy to get China to loosen up their censorship regulations, since Google now own a considerable share of the search engine marketplace.
Even if this is untrue, it’s a great example of how you should be thinking of ways of leveraging your own position in order to get the things done that you feel most passionate about. If you can’t do them today, don’t sell out and do them half-heartedly. Plan ahead and plan BIG.
CONCLUSION
Focus on what’s important. Are you going to have more of an impact on the world if you throw a dozen dollars now and again at the world’s biggest charity organizations, or if you go out and meet real people and see first hand how your presence impacts their lives or the ecosystems or the planet?
There’s no right or wrong to this answer – but believe me – exclusively donating money is not the name of the game – your ability to share yourself is.
Courtesy: http://www.bitrebels.com/lifestyle/how-to-be-charitable-even-without-money/
Tuesday, January 26, 2010
Phir mile SUR....on Republic day 2010
New Version
Old Version
Behind the Song
----------------------------------------------------------------
To be appropriately launched by Amitabh Bachchan on the eve of Republic
Day, 'Phir Mile Sur,' the iconic national song for young India, has more than 60
icons singing along, lending their support to this national effort which took more
than a year to create (a film by Kailash Surendranath, produced by Zoom)
'Phir Mile Sur' required more than 60 days of on location shoot spread over 15
cities, featuring 22 of the industry's biggest superstars. Aamir Khan, Priyanka
Chopra, Shahid Kapoor, Shah Rukh Khan, Deepika Padukone, Salman Khan,
Abhishek Bachchan, Aishwarya Rai Bachchan, Karan Johar, Shilpa Shetty …
Mumbai, Jan 25 (IANS) Amitabh Bachchan released the new version of the
patriotic song 'Mile sur mera tumhara' here on the eve of Republic Day. It is
now titled 'Phir Mile Sur' and Bollywood megastar was excited about the fact
that he is the only one who has been repeated in it.
'Mile sur mera tumhara' was conceptualized and conceived by late Suresh
Mallick and it was first aired on Doordarshan on Aug 15, 1988, and after 22
years Arti and Kailash Surendranath have recreated and presented it as 'Phir
mile sur'.
From vocalists Bhimsen Joshi and Balamurali Krishna to sitar maestro Ravi
Shankar, tabla maestros Allah Rakha and Zakir Hussain to sportsmen Narendra
Hirwani and Prakash Padukone featured in the original. Well-known film
personalities like Amitabh, Lata Mangeshkar, Mithun Chakraborty, Jeetendra,
Hema Malini, Shabana Azmi, Javed Akhtar, Kamal Haasan, Sharmila Tagore,
Tanuja and Waheeda Rehman too appeared in the national integration song.
More than 60 known personalities, including actors Priyanka Chopra, Deepika
Padukone, Ranbir Kapoor, Shahid Kapoor, Salman Khan, Shilpa Shetty and
Juhi Chawla along with other prominent personalities feature in the new version
of the song.
It features 22 superstars, 18 musicians, 13 artistes and singers and 15 other
known personalities.
'Phir mile sur' will be initially aired on Zoom Tuesday.
Mile Sur Mera Tumhara Lyrics:
---------------------------------------------
Mile sur mera tumharaa, Thoo sur bane hamaraa.... sur kee nadhiyaan
har disha se behkee saagar mein milee. Baadalon ka roop leiker
bharse halke halke... Mile sur mera tumharaa.. thoo... sur bane
hamaara.. Mile sur mera tumhara...
Chaain taraj tahin nyay taraj
ek but baniye saayen taraj
Tera sur mile mere sur de naal
milke bane ek nava surtaal
Mile sur mera tumharaa....tho sur bane hamaara..
Mohnja sur tohi desa pyara mile jadein geet ashaanjo madhur tarano
bane tadein
Sur ka dariya bahte saagar me mile badlaan da roop leike barasan
holle haule
Isaindhal namm iruvarin suramum namadhakum.. Dhisai veru aanalum
aazi ser aarugal Mugilai mazaiyai pozivadu pol isai ...Namm
isssaiiii.... Thik thakida thathikakidA....thaka thimi thaka junu
Nanna dhwanige ninna dhwani-ya, seridante namma dhwaniya..
Naa swaramu nee swaramu sangammamai, mana swaram ga avatarinchey
Ninde swaramum ningalude swaramum otthucheiyum Namudeya swaramai....
Tomaar shoor moder shoor srishti koroor koi ekshoor[2]...
Sriishti karoon woi katha
Toma mora swarer milan srishti kare chalbochatano
male sur jo taro maro, bane aapno sur niralo
majhya tumchya julta tara madhur suranchya barasti dhara
Sur ki nadiya har disha se behke saagar mein mile...
Baadlo ka roop leke barse halke halke..
Oh...Mile sur mera tumhara tho....sur bane hamara...
Mile Sur mera tumhara
tho sur bane hamara tho sur bane hamara
tho sur bane hamara
The song’s lyrics are unique– One phrase, repeated in 14 Indian languages: ”
Mile sur mera tumhaara , to sur bane hamaara”, meaning “When my tune and
your tune merge, it becomes our tune”. The lyrics in different languages is given
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mile_Sur_Mera_Tumhara
Old Version
Behind the Song
----------------------------------------------------------------
To be appropriately launched by Amitabh Bachchan on the eve of Republic
Day, 'Phir Mile Sur,' the iconic national song for young India, has more than 60
icons singing along, lending their support to this national effort which took more
than a year to create (a film by Kailash Surendranath, produced by Zoom)
'Phir Mile Sur' required more than 60 days of on location shoot spread over 15
cities, featuring 22 of the industry's biggest superstars. Aamir Khan, Priyanka
Chopra, Shahid Kapoor, Shah Rukh Khan, Deepika Padukone, Salman Khan,
Abhishek Bachchan, Aishwarya Rai Bachchan, Karan Johar, Shilpa Shetty …
Mumbai, Jan 25 (IANS) Amitabh Bachchan released the new version of the
patriotic song 'Mile sur mera tumhara' here on the eve of Republic Day. It is
now titled 'Phir Mile Sur' and Bollywood megastar was excited about the fact
that he is the only one who has been repeated in it.
'Mile sur mera tumhara' was conceptualized and conceived by late Suresh
Mallick and it was first aired on Doordarshan on Aug 15, 1988, and after 22
years Arti and Kailash Surendranath have recreated and presented it as 'Phir
mile sur'.
From vocalists Bhimsen Joshi and Balamurali Krishna to sitar maestro Ravi
Shankar, tabla maestros Allah Rakha and Zakir Hussain to sportsmen Narendra
Hirwani and Prakash Padukone featured in the original. Well-known film
personalities like Amitabh, Lata Mangeshkar, Mithun Chakraborty, Jeetendra,
Hema Malini, Shabana Azmi, Javed Akhtar, Kamal Haasan, Sharmila Tagore,
Tanuja and Waheeda Rehman too appeared in the national integration song.
More than 60 known personalities, including actors Priyanka Chopra, Deepika
Padukone, Ranbir Kapoor, Shahid Kapoor, Salman Khan, Shilpa Shetty and
Juhi Chawla along with other prominent personalities feature in the new version
of the song.
It features 22 superstars, 18 musicians, 13 artistes and singers and 15 other
known personalities.
'Phir mile sur' will be initially aired on Zoom Tuesday.
Mile Sur Mera Tumhara Lyrics:
---------------------------------------------
Mile sur mera tumharaa, Thoo sur bane hamaraa.... sur kee nadhiyaan
har disha se behkee saagar mein milee. Baadalon ka roop leiker
bharse halke halke... Mile sur mera tumharaa.. thoo... sur bane
hamaara.. Mile sur mera tumhara...
Chaain taraj tahin nyay taraj
ek but baniye saayen taraj
Tera sur mile mere sur de naal
milke bane ek nava surtaal
Mile sur mera tumharaa....tho sur bane hamaara..
Mohnja sur tohi desa pyara mile jadein geet ashaanjo madhur tarano
bane tadein
Sur ka dariya bahte saagar me mile badlaan da roop leike barasan
holle haule
Isaindhal namm iruvarin suramum namadhakum.. Dhisai veru aanalum
aazi ser aarugal Mugilai mazaiyai pozivadu pol isai ...Namm
isssaiiii.... Thik thakida thathikakidA....thaka thimi thaka junu
Nanna dhwanige ninna dhwani-ya, seridante namma dhwaniya..
Naa swaramu nee swaramu sangammamai, mana swaram ga avatarinchey
Ninde swaramum ningalude swaramum otthucheiyum Namudeya swaramai....
Tomaar shoor moder shoor srishti koroor koi ekshoor[2]...
Sriishti karoon woi katha
Toma mora swarer milan srishti kare chalbochatano
male sur jo taro maro, bane aapno sur niralo
majhya tumchya julta tara madhur suranchya barasti dhara
Sur ki nadiya har disha se behke saagar mein mile...
Baadlo ka roop leke barse halke halke..
Oh...Mile sur mera tumhara tho....sur bane hamara...
Mile Sur mera tumhara
tho sur bane hamara tho sur bane hamara
tho sur bane hamara
The song’s lyrics are unique– One phrase, repeated in 14 Indian languages: ”
Mile sur mera tumhaara , to sur bane hamaara”, meaning “When my tune and
your tune merge, it becomes our tune”. The lyrics in different languages is given
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mile_Sur_Mera_Tumhara
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