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Jadav Payeng : Indian man single-handedly plants a 1,360-acre forest

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<i><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">"The snakes died in the heat, without any tree cover. I sat down and wept over their lifeless forms. It was carnage. I alerted the forest department and asked them if they could grow trees there. They said nothing would grow there. Instead, they asked me to try growing bamboo. It was painful, but I did it. Nature has made a food chain; why can't we stick to it? Who would protect these animals if we, as superior beings, start hunting them?" - Jadav Molai Payeng, who single-handedly created a 1360 acre forest."</span></i></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">A little more than 30 years ago, a teenager named Jadav "Molai" Payeng began burying seeds along a barren sandbar near his birthplace in northern India's Assam region to grow a refuge for wildlife. Not long after, he decided to dedicate his life to this endeavor, so he moved to the site where he could work full-time creating a lush new forest ecosystem. Incredibly, the spot today hosts a sprawling 1,360 acres of jungle that Payeng planted — single-handedly.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/home/sunday-toi/special-report/The-man-who-made-a-forest/articleshow/12488584.cms" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #025689; text-decoration: none;">The Times of India</a> recently caught up with Payeng in his remote forest lodge to learn more about how he came to leave such an indelible mark on the landscape.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">It all started way back in 1979, when floods washed a large number of snakes ashore on the sandbar. One day, after the waters had receded, Payeng, only 16 then, found the place dotted with the dead reptiles. That was the turning point of his life.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><b>Jadav Payeng (Assamese: যাদৱ পায়েং)</b> is an environmental activist and forestry worker from Jorhat, Assam, India.[16] He upgraded a chapori of the river Brahmaputra to a reserve forest. The name of the forest is Mulai Reserve (Mulai is his nickname), it is located near Kokilamukh of Jorhat, Assam, India. Total area of the forest is about 1000 hectares.
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Payeng started his journey of plantation in 1979. He started working on the forest in 1980 when the social forestry division of Golaghat districtlaunched a scheme of tree plantation on 200 hectares at <a class="new" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Aruna_Chapori&action=edit&redlink=1" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #a55858; text-decoration: none;" title="Aruna Chapori (page does not exist)">Aruna Chapori</a> situated at a distance of five km from Kokilamukh in Jorhat district. Mulai was one of the labourers who worked in that project which was completed after five years. He chose to stay back after the completion of the project as others left. He not only looked after the plants, but continued to plant more trees on his own effort slowly transforming the area into a big forest.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">The forest, now known in Assamese as <a class="new" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Mulai_Kathoni&action=edit&redlink=1" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #a55858; text-decoration: none;" title="Mulai Kathoni (page does not exist)">Mulai Kathoni</a> or Mulai forest, houses around four tigers, three rhinoceros, over a hundred deer and rabbits besides apes and innumerable varieties of birds, including a large number of vultures. There are several thousand trees among which are valcol, arjun, ejar, goldmohur, koroi, moj and himolu. There are bamboo trees too covering an area of over 300 hectares.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">A herd of around 100 elephants regularly visits the forest every year and generally stay for around six months. They also gave birth to 10 calves in the forest in recent times.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">His efforts came into lime light during 2008 when forest department officials went to the area in search of a herd of 115 elephants that sneaked into the forest after damaging property of villagers at Aruna chapori, around 1.5 km from the forest. The officials were surprised to see such a large and dense forest and since then the department is showing interest on conservation with regular visit to the site.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">A few years back, poachers tried to kill the rhinos staying in the forest but failed in their attempt due to Mulai who alerted department officials. Officials promptly seized various articles used by the poachers to trap the animals.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Mulai is ready to manage the forest in a better way and to go to other places of the state to start a similar venture. Now his aim is to spread his forest to Bongoan of Majuli</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Jadav Payeng lives in a small hut in the forest with his family. Binita, his wife and his 3 children (two sons and a daughter) accompany him. His only source of income is through selling milk, he has good number of cows and buffaloes in his farm and sell the milk for his livelihood. In a recent interview he revealed that he lost around 100s of cows and buffaloes to the Tigers in the forest, but blames the people who carry out large scale encroachment and destruction of forests as the root cause of the plight of wild animals</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Jadav Payeng was honoured at a public function arranged by the School of Environmenal Sciences, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jawaharlal_Nehru_University" style="background-image: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Jawaharlal Nehru University">Jawaharlal Nehru University</a> on <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earth_Day" style="background-image: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Earth Day">22nd April, 2012</a> for his remarkable achievement. He shared his experience of creating a forest in an interactive session, where <a class="mw-redirect" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magsaysay_Award" style="background-image: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Magsaysay Award">Magsaysay Award</a> winner Rajendra Singh and JNU vice-chancellor Sudhir Kumar Sopory were present. Sopory named Jadav Payeng as "Forest Man of India</span></div>
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Jadav Payeng : Indian man single-handedly plants a 1,360-acre forest

"The snakes died in the heat, without any tree cover. I sat down and wept over their lifeless forms. It was carnage. I alerted the ...

sampat pal devi : Gulabi gang Leader (Biography & life Story)

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Sampat Pal, who heads a group of women vigilantes called Gulabi Gang in the Banda district of Uttar Pradesh, is part of this season’s Bigg Boss. Even before the show has gone on air, the activist, who has been fighting domestic abuse, decided to attract a fair bit of controversy. She has lashed out at Madhuri Dixit Nene, who is set to play her character in a forthcoming film.<br />
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“Madhuri is doing it wrong. She should have taken permission from me before she decided to do the film,” says Pal, on whom the film Gulab Gang is based. Produced by Anubhav Sinha and directed by Soumik Sen, the film is set to go on the floors this month.  <br />
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The 62-year-old activist further added that Madhuri will not be able to portray the character correctly as neither she nor the makers have any background knowledge. “Madhuri can’t do justice to the role. None of them (from the film’s team) have ever called me. Madhuri should have come to my home, stayed with me and met my cadres. She doesn’t know how I work. They can’t cash in on our struggles. If my name comes in the film, I will not let them get away easily,” she says.<br />
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Meanwhile, Pal says she likes Bigg Boss host Salman Khan’s earlier films. “I like Hum Aapke Hain Koun…! (1994) a lot. He looked fabulous in his ’20s.” She adds, “I’ll try to change Salman. I’ll try to persuade him to make films not just for entertainment, but do films with stronger women rolee.”<br />
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The <b>Gulabi gang</b> (from <a class="mw-redirect" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hindi_language" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Hindi language">Hindi</a> <i>gulabi</i>, "Rose", transln. <b>" gang"</b>) is a group of women vigilantes and activists originally from <a class="new" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Badausa_Village,Chitrakoot,_Uttar_Pradesh&action=edit&redlink=1" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #a55858; text-decoration: none;" title="Badausa Village,Chitrakoot, Uttar Pradesh (page does not exist)">Chitrakoot</a> in Bundelkhand district, Uttar Pradesh, India,<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-Slate_2010_0-0" style="line-height: 1em;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sampat_Pal_Devi#cite_note-Slate_2010-0" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap;">[1]</a></sup> but reported to be active across North India as of 2010.</div>
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The gang was founded in 2006 by Sampat Pal Devi, a mother of five and former government health worker (and a former child bride), as a response to widespread <a class="mw-redirect" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Domestic_abuse" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Domestic abuse">domestic abuse</a> and other violence against women.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-BBC_2007_2-0" style="line-height: 1em;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sampat_Pal_Devi#cite_note-BBC_2007-2" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap;">[3]</a></sup> <i>Gulabis</i> visit abusive husbands and beat them up with <i>laathis</i> (bamboo sticks) unless they stop abusing their wives.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-Slate_2010_0-1" style="line-height: 1em;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sampat_Pal_Devi#cite_note-Slate_2010-0" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap;">[1]</a></sup> In 2008, they stormed an electricity office in <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Banda_district" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Banda district">Banda district</a> and forced officials to turn back the power they had cut in order to extract bribes.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-Guardian_2008_3-0" style="line-height: 1em;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sampat_Pal_Devi#cite_note-Guardian_2008-3" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap;">[4]</a></sup> They have also stopped <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Child_marriage" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Child marriage">child marriages</a> and protested <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dowry" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Dowry">dowry</a> and female illiteracy.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-Business_Standard_2010_1-1" style="line-height: 1em;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sampat_Pal_Devi#cite_note-Business_Standard_2010-1" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap;">[2]</a></sup></div>
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The group, which the Indian media portray positively, was reported to have 20,000 members as of 2008, as well as a chapter in <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paris" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Paris">Paris</a>, France.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-Slate_2010_0-2" style="line-height: 1em;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sampat_Pal_Devi#cite_note-Slate_2010-0" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap;">[1]</a></sup></div>
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A movie called "Pink Saris" has been made about them, directed by Kim Longinotto and premiering at the Toronto Film Festival in 2010.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-4" style="line-height: 1em;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sampat_Pal_Devi#cite_note-4" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap;">[5]</a></sup> A documentary called "Gulabi Gang", directed by Nishtha Jain, premiered at the Norwegian Short Film Festival in 2012, where it was awarded the prize for best Norwegian documentary. A movie by the name of <a class="mw-redirect" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gulab_Gang" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Gulab Gang">Gulab Gang</a> is also in the process of being made, starring <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Madhuri_Dixit" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Madhuri Dixit">Madhuri Dixit</a> in the leading role. Producer Anubhav Sinha has plans to get it released on<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Women%27s_Day" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="International Women's Day">International Women's Day</a>, March 8, 2013.</div>
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Anand kumar : A mathematician from Patna, Bihar

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His role model is great Indian mathematician “Ramanujan”. During graduation, He submitted papers on Number Theory, which were published in Mathematical Spectrum and The Mathematical Gazette. He worked hard and dreamed of getting into one of the world’s best university “Cambridge”. And one day he got it, admission to Cambridge.<br />But…<br />Very soon he realized that his father cannot afford his education at Cambridge. He and his father searched helplessly for a sponsor all over India but nobody came up. And one day his family’s only breadwinner: his father died and his last hope of getting good education diminished. He gave up the dream of Cambridge and came back to his home in Patna, Bihar.<br />He would work on Mathematics during day time and would sell papads in evenings with his mother, who had started a small business from home, to support her family. He also tutored students in maths to earn extra money. Since Patna University library did not have foreign journals, for his own study, he would travel every weekend on a six-hour train journey to Varanasi, where his younger brother, learning violin under N. Rajam, had a hostel room. Thus he would spend Saturday and Sunday at the Central Library, BHU and return to Patna on Monday morning.<br /><br /><br />He rented a classroom for Rs 500 a month, and began his own institute, the Ramanujam School of Mathematics (RSM). Within the space of year, his class grew from two students to thirty-six, and after three years there were almost 500 students enrolled. Then in early 2000, when a poor student came to him seeking coaching for IIT-JEE, who couldn’t afford the annual admission fee due to poverty, Kumar was motivated to start the Super 30 program in 2003, for which he is now well-known.<br /><br /><br />Every year in August, since 2003, the Ramanujan School of Mathematics, now a trust, holds a competitive test to select 30 students for the ‘Super 30’ scheme. About 4,000 to 5,000 students appear at the test, and eventually he takes thirty intelligent students from economically backward sections which included beggars, hawkers, auto-driver’s children, tutors them, and provides study materials and lodging for a year. He prepares them for the Joint Entrance Examination for the Indian Institutes of Technology (IIT). His mother, Jayanti Devi, cooks for the students, and his brother Pranav Kumar takes care of the management.<br /><br />Out of 270 students he tutored from 2002-2011 236 students have made an admission to IIT. All of them came so poor background that their parents were Hawkers, Auto-drivers, laborer etc.<br />During 2003-2009, 182 students out of 210 have made it to the IITs.<br />In 2010, all the students of Super 30 cleared IIT JEE entrance making it a three in a row for the institution.<br />Anand Kumar has no financial support for Super 30 from any government as well as private agencies, and manages on the tuition fee he earns from the Ramanujam Institute. After the success of Super 30 and its growing popularity, he got many offers from the private – both national and international companies – as well as the government for financial help, but he always refused it. He wanted to sustain Super 30 through his own efforts. After three consecutive 30/30 results in 2008-2010, in 2011, 24 of the 30 students cleared IIT JEE.<br /><br />Anand’s work is now well received from all over the world :<br /><br />USA’s president obama read about Anand in TIME magazine and sent a special envoy to check the work done by him and offered all the assistance and Anand never accepts help irrespective of helper.<br /><br />Discovery Channel broadcast a one-hour-long program on Super 30, and half a page has been devoted to Kumar in The New York Times.<br /><br />Actress and ex-Miss Japan Norika Fujiwara visited Patna to make a documentary on Anand’s initiatives.<br /><br />Kumar has been featured in programmes by the BBC.<br /><br />He has spoken about his experiences at Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad.<br /><br />Kumar is in the Limca Book of Records (2009) for his contribution in helping poor students crack IIT-JEE by providing them free coaching.<br /><br />Time Magazine has selected mathematician Anand Kumar’s school – Super 30 – in the list of Best of Asia 2010.<br /><br />Anand Kumar was awarded the S. Ramanujan Award for 2010 by the Institute for Research and Documentation in Social Sciences (IRDS) in July 2010.<br /><br />Super 30 received praise from United States President Barack Obama’s special envoy Rashad Hussain, who termed it the “best” institute in the country. Newsweek Magazine has taken note of the initiative of mathematician Anand Kumar’s Super 30 and included his school in the list of four most innovative schools in the world.<br />Anand Kumar has been awarded by top award of Bihar government “Maulana Abdul Kalam Azad Shiksha Puraskar” November 2010.<br />He was awarded the Prof Yashwantrao Kelkar Yuva Puraskar 2010 by Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad (ABVP) in Bangalore.<br />In April 2011, Anand Kumar was selected by Europe’s magazine Focus as “one of the global personalities who have the ability to shape exceptionally talented people.” <span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: purple; font-size: large;"><b><br /></b></span>
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Jyothi Reddy - CEO of Keys software solutions [Biography]

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At the age of just 16, She married because of her family financial position. By the age of eighteen, she became mother of two girls. She worked for Rs. 5 per day. But today she is the CEO of Keys software solutions in USA.<br />
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Meet Ms. Jyothi Reddy - CEO of Keys software solutions.<br />
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Early Life and Education:-She was born in Narasimhula Gudem in Hanumakonda mandal, Warangal District as eldest of four children to a common peasant who has lost his employment during emergency. His father was joined in Army but could not continue because of his attachment with the family.As it was very difficult for the family to meet the both the ends, he was forced to join Jyothi Reddy BALASADAN, a government orphanage at Hanumakonda as amother less child.From 5th class to 10th class Jyothi Reddy stayed in orphanage by having solitary life away from home.She passed 10th class with good marks bt could not continue her education.At the age of just 16 they performed her marriage with Mr. SangiReddy.and at 18, she became mother of two girls.<br />
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Career:- It was very difficult for her to provide even basic needs to her family.So she started working as agriculture labour for Rs. 5 per day.She worked from 1986 to 89 on field.in 1989,Nehru Yuvak Kendra (NYK) started a night school in the village to teach the basic education for adults.She was the only educated girl in village so they appointed her as the volunteer to educate the adults after giving some training. It fetched her Rupees 150 per month.Her hard work and dedication impressed the Inspection authorities  and they  appointed her Mandal Prerak of Hanumakonda.<br />
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After being appointed as Mandal Prerak Jyothi had to visit all the centres of the Warangal district and realized the importance of education. She completed her graduation and post graduation Distance Mode from Ambedkar Open University. Even University authorities were impressed by her urge for education. She did B. Ed from Anna University and become a government teacher.<br />
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A Dream: When Jyothi was working as inspector of schools, a relative of her who settled in America came to her place. Jyothi accompanied her during her stay and observed how much change had been taken in the life style of her America settled relative.So for a bright future for her daughters, she made up her mind and learnt computers and started saving money for her passport and visa.. After series of early failures she could get a visiting visa and flew to America with a little amount.<br />
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she joined as a salesperson in “ Movie Time ’’ a video shop in New Jersey.She stayed as paying guest in gujarathi family. While she was working iin Video Time a known Indian from Warangal saw her and recommended her name to his brother who owned a company called “ CSAMERICA” and she was appointed as recruiter after being trained. Later a well know company ICSA offered her a good job with handsome salary. Again she faced some problems as her visa was not approved and she went for H1 visa. She had to resign her job in ICSA and again had to work for $5 per hour in nominal jobs till she got her H1 visa.<br />
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She went to Mexico for her VISA stamping. All the hardships of obtaining visa gave her an idea of establish her first entrepreneurship to assist the people to get their Visas. Thus Keys software solutions was initiated. It extended it services like developing software solutions and recruitment and other job providing areas. Jyothi came to America in May 2OOO and by September, 2001 she became entrepreneur. She made her cousin as partner as his partner and extended her business to become more profitable.<br />
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Fulfillment of Dreams :- Her hard work, commitment and dedication fetched her the success she dreamed for. She made enough money to take care of her children and her near relatives. Her two daughters could finish higher education in America from prestigious universities and got married to well settled bridegrooms. Her dream to provide good living conditions to her daughters was fulfilled.<br />
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Humanity: She strongly believes the words of Mother Teresa… “ The worst disease in the world is neither poverty nor other, lack of feeling of belongingness, being unwanted is the worst ”. Whenever she visits the Orphanages in India she prefers to spend more time with the orphans. She visits Women’s colleges and empowers them with her life experience. She helped many Indians to settle in America by providing initial shelter and guidance.</div>
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Jyothi Reddy - CEO of Keys software solutions [Biography]

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Omkar Nath Sharma : gathering medicines for the poor

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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">A sprightly old man with a bagful of medicines heads for Ram Manohar Lohia Hospital to donate unused medicines collected from different localities for distribution among poor patients. He is dressed in a red kurta, which has his mobile number and the words 'medicine bank' printed on it. He goes from door to door asking for unused medicines so that they can be supplied to those in need.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Omkar Nath Sharma, 74, is a walking medicine bank. He was crippled after he met with an accident in childhood. Despite his disability, his enthusiasm is undiminished and he walks about five kilometres every day to collect the drugs. Children call him medicine baba. "The officials living here are CGHS beneficiaries. They get medicines for free and the drugs which are left unused are usually discarded. I collect these and donate them to the needy through NGOs and hospitals," said Sharma, who has earlier worked as a medical attendant with a private hospital. After he finishes collecting medicines, he spreads a sheet on the roadside and settles down to arrange them. He systematically prepares a list of all the medicines and asks for a receipt while donating these to a hospital or an NGO.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><img src="http://articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/images/pixel.gif" />Sharma claims to be collecting medicines worth lakhs every day. "In my 27-year-long career as a medical attendant, I have seen many patients who cannot even afford a painkiller or antibiotics. People usually throw the unused medicines after the patient recovers. There is no system to prevent this wastage and redistribute these medicines. I'm trying to do my bit," said Sharma.</span><br />
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<img alt="Omkar Nath Sharma receiving leftover medicine in the Green Park neighborhood of New Delhi on February 12, 2012." height="360" id="100000001506576" src="http://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/2012/04/24/world/asia/24-medicine-indiaink/24-medicine-indiaink-blog480.jpg" width="480" /><span class="credit" style="color: #909090; display: block; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 1em; line-height: 1.223em; margin: 2px 0px; text-align: right;">Courtesy of Abu Zafar</span><span class="caption" style="color: #666666; display: block; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 1.1em; line-height: 1.2727em; margin: 3px 2px;">Omkar Nath Sharma receiving leftover medicine in the Green Park neighborhood of New Delhi on February 12, 2012.</span></div>
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The “Medicine Baba,” Omkar Nath Sharma, 75, spends his days knocking on doors in Delhi’s upper and middle class neighborhoods, collecting their leftover medicines and giving them to the poor.</div>
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Mr. Sharma, a former medical technician, was jolted out of retirement in 2008, after an under-construction Delhi Metro bridge collapsed in Laxmi Nagar, claiming two lives and injuring several construction workers and passers by. Many of those people had no access to health care or medicine. “I was moved by the plight of the people who were running here and there searching desperately for medicine,” said Mr. Sharma in a recent interview. He said he visited the site of the accident and decided “I will do something to help society.”</div>
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