In conversation with an ashtanga guru
Ashtanga is a form of yoga that I have been practicing for three years under the guidance of a few incredible teachers.
25 January 2016, 18:00 PM
An account is not enough
CHILDREN are legally entitled to work in Bangladesh starting at age 14 but without a formalised savings mechanism, they are not able
13 December 2015, 18:00 PM
PROTECT THE POOREST
Technology is not the panacea to all ailments in the fight against poverty but it certainly can improve the efficiency of large-scale programmes and should be applied to benefit the poorest.
30 August 2015, 18:00 PM
More efficient, more productive
Digital tools can empower the poorest by bringing them into the feedback dialogue. This gives clients of programmes the scope to steer their own growth and lodge grievances if necessary.
20 July 2015, 18:00 PM
ABCs of Yoga
Awareness
“If you don't take the lamp of awareness with you, you are going to create a hell around you. Light your lamp wherever you go, whatsoever you do, always do it in the inner light, with awareness.”
15 June 2015, 18:00 PM
ABCs of YOGA health benefits
Asthma and arthritic conditions improve, adrenal glands are regulated
25 May 2015, 18:00 PM
Up close with Atul Vyas
Yoga is a much deeper exercise than pilates or interval boot camp or running, cycling, jumping rope, because it works on three levels: body, mind and spirit. It facilitates the opening of mental faculties like the blossoming of a lotus flower.
23 February 2015, 18:00 PM
Street kids in Bangladesh get bank accounts!
MILLIONS of extremely poor Bangladeshis are living in our golden country seeking opportunities to participate in the economy to survive. They face barriers in attaining an education, job, health services, clean drinking water, or food.
24 November 2014, 18:00 PM
Finding Fatima
WHO would have guessed, that the world-wide-web would make it possible to empower a little extremely poor girl in Rampal, a remote corner of Bangladesh?
9 September 2014, 18:00 PM
Extreme poverty in the CHT context
To gaze upon a case study of redistribution of wealth in the wrong direction – from the poorest to the richest - one has only to drive through the hills of Bandarban.
30 August 2014, 18:00 PM
Manifesto for The Extreme Poor
Manifesto for The Extreme Poor
3 May 2014, 18:00 PM
Barriers to climbing out of extreme poverty
"OVERCOMING poverty is not a task of charity, it is an act of justice. Like slavery and apartheid, poverty is not natural. It is man-made and it can be overcome and eradicated by the actions of human beings” -- Nelson Mandela
10 March 2014, 18:00 PM