My Personal Blog - Sarada Ramani

So many things land up in my inbox.  I dont know how this landed up, but it was very interesting to read through.  There are two news items - one is about the HIV cases coming down and another is about Bill & Melinda foundation supporting the prevention of HIV cases by donating a huge amount to a bio tech company Here you go: New item 1: New HIV cases down by half in 10 years By Sanchita Sharma, Hindustan Times, New Delhi, 24 November 2010 INDIA'S DONE WELL BECAUSE HIGH-PREVA- LENCE STATES HAVE CUT DOWN NEW INFECTIONS DRAMATICALLY New HIV infection that causes AIDS has halved in India over the past decade, reported the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS) Global Report released on Tuesday. The UNAIDS report uses newly-generated data that factors in the change in methodology that led India to slashing its HIV estimates from 5.7 million in 2005 to 2.5 million in 2006. “With 2.6 million new infections worldwide in 2009, the report records t...

On Sunday, I was called for the Prize distribution function arranged by Columbia Kannan Trust and Jayadhaarini Trust for the youngsters who had participated in Classical music/semi classical music light music  under vocal and instruments  category in the competition held on 5th and 12th of September Here again, I went with the question - what a IT company head has to do with Music competition.  Everyone in my family was looking at me with  wide eyes when I told them where I am going.  I told them, to enjoy a movie, you dont need to be a movie maker so to enjoy music you dont need to be necessarily a singer and also they are calling me to a function where I dont need to sing, but to distribute the prizes to the winners. I came to know of these trusts only recently. Columbia Kannan Trust is a very young trust just one year old instituted in memory of Late S Kannan ,  who is famously known as columbia kannan who has served his life with music an...

witth the permission of OWSA and South Asia MDG Watch's e-bulletin no. 69 dated Feb 1-15, 2010, I would like to paste this link to thier bulletin to enable the readers to see the Reality of the Avatar Movie happening in India.... This caption was what attracted me in the first place to this link. http://southasia.oneworld.net/todaysheadlines/indian-tribe-seeks-avatar-directors-help-to-protect-land Some people fight for what they beleive in.....

Our company, Computers International comes an SMB Organization, is engaged in providing software services to our clients worldwide. We have 125+ full time employees in the company. Nowadays, the consciousness of every one of the educated masses is to contribute back to the society at least a little of what they have got from life. None of my staff members are an exemption to this great philosophy of life. Not only they perform their individual social responsibilities, but also join together to collectively discharge the corporate social responsibilities. All the members raise up to any occasion, whether it is a monthly contribution to the Computers International Social Fund or for the special occasion as disaster relief, etc. CISF vision is : To help contribute to enabling the underprivileged to take care of their education, health care requirements as a foundation for an equitable and humane society. The current focus areas are 1. Educational 2.Health Care 3. Social reh...

Seeing a poor family - don't feed them but teach them to fish. Of course, I should have written don't just feed them, these families that I am going to talk about, have income generators as their head of family, but only thing is that their income is not even sufficient to take of their family. When such is the situation, how can they think of educating their children so that at least their children will be out of the ' poverty line'. Sowbhagya (means life filled with all good things) educational trust is doing a Yeomen service to these kind of people in their residential area. Sowbhaya trust which celebrated its 16 th annual day recently had invited me to their function as a chief guest and I had the honor and privilege of distributing educational aid to these children. It was such a sight to see and behold. From the way the trust works under the Founding Trustee, Jayalakshmi Rajagopal , it goes about in with a great strategy that at the end of the day the children...

I was very surprised when I read through the OneWorld South Asia Magazine , which posts articles about women and all those issues/achievements aimed at the Woman population . In my earlier article, I was cribbing about the TV Serial , and look what a transformation has happened because the right kind of serial was telecast, which was seen by right kind of people and right kind of action was taken. My Salutations for the Women of Chhattisgarh, one of the Northern states in India for this wonderful achievement and showing the Real Power of Women. Hats off to you all my Sisters. I am reproducing the article verbatim from the Magazine Rural television clubs promote healthy living Swapna Majumdar 29 May 2008 Inspired by a national television programme, women in Chhattisgarh villages in central India went on to form Kalyani clubs to drive awareness on health-related issues. Six years after their inception, the declining cases of diseases and improved maternal and child health s...