The frankest answer is I do not know. However I do train lots and lots of people so the easiest thing is to pick a phone number and give it to you. Or even worse put a few numbers on my blog / site. Well I do none of these..instead here are some suggestions (some […]
Akshayapatra (www.akshayapatra.org) is now a reasonably large organization. True to Gandhian values they believe that they should aim high, work high and talk less. One recent achievement is that they are now feeding upwards of a MILLION (11,86,206 if you are an accountant!) children everyday in some school in India. India, of course, has many […]
In all my financial interactions – be it planning for clients, training, teaching or writing, people have come to me with some problem which they think is unique. In all the financial problems, I am able to find a pattern. Believe it or nor, people more often than not choose the problem by their behavior. […]
When a friend called me to say he is making a donation, I got greedy. She works for a large organisation, so instead of jumping at her offer, I asked her to call for a meeting of 20 of her friends – and I would make a small 15 minute presentation on akshayapatra! I am […]
When I started blogging I found this as a good medium for writing about charitable giving. Many friends, classmates, relatives had monies coming out of their ears and seriously did not know what to do. The Audis had been bought, the beach house (a 5 BHK should be called a house or palace, I know […]
To do charity you need to have a heart. Once you realize that you have a heart, you can give. I have always felt that it is easy to give what you have (goods) rather than the money that you have! That is why it was easy for EID Parry to give a temple all […]
Once when we were looking for a water cooler (to be installed near a temple) a friends’ mother offered it to us. It was a big amount (circa 1985 Rs. 2 Lakhs) and we felt happy that the job was done. When we asked her what name to put on the cooler – she said […]