XLRI Students to Start Clothes Bank

July 29, Jamshedpur (HT): Power dressing would trickle down to the poor people of Jharkhand. Students of XLRI School of Business and Human Resources, in collaboration with Goonj, a New Delhi based NGO, are establishing the first clothes bank in the state.

Social Initiative Group for Managerial Assistance (SIGMA), a student body of the premier B-school is making preparations for establishing the bank. Students have decided to provide bare minimum clothes to poor.

Members of SIGMA told the Hindustan Times that there are policies for poor people to access food and shelter but it is ironical that there is no policy for providing clothes. "Many poverty ridden people fight with extreme cold, monsoons and heat without clothes. It makes them ill and prone to diseases," students said.

Initiative of the XLRI to create a clothes bank also holds significance in the wake of deaths in the state due to cold and heat wave. According to the plans, SIGMA would take care of the technical knowledge for collecting, distributing and tracking of the clothes. It would also see whether clothes reach the poor or not. Goonj has launched clothes banks in many parts of the country. It's the only NGO that took lead in providing clothing to poor masses.

XLRI will partner with local NGOs for distribution of clothes from the bank to the urban and rural poor.... Formal inauguration of the bank will be made in the first week of August. Anshu Gupta, founder of Goonj, and an alumnus of Indian Institute of Mass Communication (IIMC), New Delhi would arrive on the XLRI campus to inaugurate the bank. Students would start clothes collection drive from July 31st.


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Posted By Madhukar to XLRI Jamshedpur - News and Latest Updates at 7/30/2008 07:33:00 AM

Harsh Khanna (01batch)/ "Nithya Shanti" in News

From newindpress.com

HE draws the attention of the participants with a haunting sound produced by a thick metal cup.The stick that strikes the rim of the cup is taken round and round letting the sound to continue and taper off. Nithya Shanti is the master in white, teaching people how to make today the happiest day of their life at what he calls the Hadayoli Joyshop.

Blending spirituality, emotional wellbeing and physical fitness, Nithya Shanti brings in his Buddhist tradition from his six-year life as a forest monk. An MBA from XLRI, Jamshedpur, he opted out of corporate life and is now sharing his experience of “is-dom,” He has just two words to help take people to enlightenment and that is “Be Loving.”

Whatever our thoughts, words and actions, the Universe responds with an “And so it is.” This makes our thoughts a reality. His workshop focuses on how to create a loving and joyous reality around us.

When we live consciously, we begin to balance the physical, energy, emotional, intellectual, spiritual and social dimensions of life. We learn to live in harmony with the natural principles of the Universe. This gives us the strength, clarity and energy to realise the purpose of our life, he says.

Physically it means to create a sense of lightness, physical freshness and alertness, flexibility and stamina, energetically to have abundant energy and enjoy a high level of activity, emotionally to be expressive and open, intellectually to provide clarity and depth of thinking, spiritually to have a strong sense of values based on love and compassion for oneself and others and socially to be financially independent, with a healthy relationship with family and community.

He teaches the practice of a five-minute miracle that helps the individual to focus positive energy toward any specific outcome with relationships or situations.

He draws four sublime attitudes called the Brahma Viharas which are also mentioned by Patanjali in the Yoga Sutra: Metta (Maitri) – loving friendliness to all, Karuna – compassion to all, Mudita – joy in another’s accomplishments and Upekka (Upeksha) – equanimity in accepting both loss and gain, praise and blame, success and failure with detachment.

www.lovingsilence.org

Xlers in Bangalore - check (post blasts)

Just saw the reports about the Bomb blasts in Bangalore.

Hope all Xlers and their families are safe along with most others.

The news says that there have been only 3 casualties. I hope that number doesn't change.

Cell phones aren't working, but internet networks seem to be ok. So if anyone wants to check in that they are fine or want to find out about someone you can post a comment on this entry.

I will also update the details that I know.

Mini Meet in California

There was a small meet at Tipu (IR 96)'s house in California last Saturday.

Tipu says : "Attended by Suresh Mohan, Kieran Gonsalves, Ratna Kibe & Shailley - thanks for keeping the XL flag flying. Meghna & Mahesh, we missed you. December might be a good time for our next gettogether. Till then, cheers!"

First "get together" in DC

Hi,

For the record, yesterday the first ever get together of XLers took place in Washington DC, with two attendees: myself (BMD 1972) and Bhavesh Shah (BMD 1997).

I am based in Jakarta, Indoesia, visiting USA for a holiday and Bhavesh is based in DC, both originating from Mumbai (which we kept calling "Bombay").

So the topic during the get together was mostly "how things are/were back home in Mumbai and now in DC/ASEAN".

Bhavesh, excellent job in organising this first ever XLers' get together in DC and be ready for a larger one next time, when we can locate some more XLers in this part of the world!

C. G. (Shekhar) Moghe