A JOURNEY TOWARDS TRUTH, PEACE .

F rom India’s first woman bartender,  Shatbhi Basu , to India’s first female wine sommelier, Sovna Puri, the country’s women are making a conscious effort to pursue their passions and careers, breaking gender stereotypes and crashing the glass ceiling. But, 40 years ago, there was a traditional woman who did not even know what gender stereotyping was. All she wanted to do was lead a quiet life with her family in a village. But when life threw her a challenge, she gathered the courage to take it on, rising to the occasion to enter a man’s world so she could feed her hungry daughters. This is the story of Shantabai Shripati Yadav, India’s first female barber. This 70-year-old from Hasursasgiri  village in Kolhapur district of Maharashtra is indeed an inspiration to all. Shantabai Shripati Yadav Shantabai was married when she was just 12 years old. Her father was a barber and so was her husband Shripati. Shripati farmed the three acres of land that he and his four brothers

An SMS from G N Sridharan just received by me. Dear Shri Sury, I sincerely compliment on your nice coverage in the blog of the Independence Day proceedings and the Prime Minister's address. It is indeed a good diversion for pensioners who are accustomed to read only posts carrying  individual legal opinions or ones carrying accusations on others by some ambitious leaders. Keep us the practice of posting matters of national interest.  With best wishes,  G.N. Sridharan. 08.03.18 p.m.  वन्दे मातरम  vandhe matharam   by  Latha Mangeshkar. लता जी  Jai Bharath

AN INDEPENDENCE DAY MESSAGE FROM SANDIPANI VIDYANIKETAN The society is divided into two extremes when it comes to wealth. Some are worried what to do when they are hungry and others want to know the solution to feeling hungry.  When I was in Jagannath, we decided to feed people rice prasad from the temple to about 100 people. However, without any publicity, 350 people turned up. There was less curry and lentil soup than rice, but I noticed that people were just taking fists of rice and gulping it down with water. I felt for how long have these people been hungry for?  Then, I was informed that that some ladies are filling a container with rice. Already, we did not have enough and I had requested more rice to be bought. Thus, I approached the ladies who had little children surrounding them. The ladies were feeding the children and themselves. I asked one of them, "Sister, have you filled this container?"  The volunteers were worked up and made the ladies open the contai