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Saturday, May 06, 2006

Voices



Do you know of inspiring people, places, or ideas that could use some publicity? Leave a comment or send me an email with the idea and I'd be happy to follow it up and write about it if possible.

7 comments:

Anonymous said...

Inspiring people? How about Mohandas K. Gandhi?

Anonymous said...

hi, smita, i know it may sound weird, but it is true, that traffic policemen are the one who are really suffering due to this summer. if you could bring their grievence into light . i hope you will.

smita said...

thanks for the tip, nabeel! will look into it..

Anonymous said...

well, 'Fire Station' comes to my mind. This is one govt department which is heavily neglected, and still works within the resource crunch that they are in - doing a thankless job.

Anonymous said...

have you ever heard of dr. doshi? he's an absolute light. (he works and lives in chicodara, in between anand and nadiad -- i think -- in gujarat)

http://www.ijourney.org/story.php?sid=4

has a good profile on him, but the more the merrier i say! :-)

and on a personal level too, he's a real force ...

v

the mad momma said...

have you seen
http://vidya-ngo.blogspot.com/

I think they could use some publicity.

And also http://projectwhy.blogspot.com/

Anuj said...

I would love it if you could write about the initative of Asha Hyderabad where we are raising money to run a mid day meal at a school by organizing a corporate quiz for last two years.. The details are on my blog..and i can send you more info if required