One of India’s wealthiest entrepreneurs and world’s wealthiest men, Azim Premji, has been donating his fortune to the poor in India via the Azim Premji Foundation: Azim Premji Foundation is a not-for-profit organization, operational since 2001, with a vision to significantly contribute to achieve quality universal education that facilitates a just, equitable, humane and sustainable society. [...]
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Azim Premji Foundation
Posted in Beliefs, Current events, Education, Organisations, tagged Azim Premji Foundation, Azim Premji University, India on March 2, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
The Bhil
Posted in Film, People, tagged 'A Narmada Diary' 1996, Bhil, Hinduism, India on June 24, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
A group of tribal peoples in central India, Bhils number about 4 million and have a variety of Indic languages and Hindu customs. They work cultivating the land using simple tools. Bhils fought against the Moghals, the Maratha and the British to establish and retain their independence, they are experts in handling bows and arrows- the [...]