Editorial January 2022
Greeting! And welcome to the beginning of 2022. The winter is on us but we are absolutely optimistic of the days ahead. Please take a moment to Subscribe to our Newsletter.
Science is the new religion of our progress. We have seen how rapid scientific development of drugs saved millions of lives during the Covid pandemic. Although science is battling a grim battle from a rather unusual corner – from the capitalist communities, who have stalled a lot of the scientific progress in Americas & Europe.
Communities have also battled misinformation & dis-information in an age where information is abundantly available. We wonder if countries like India are ready for an information overload. There are numerous law suites with proven data that the major social platforms like Facebook & Instagram are thriving on hatred and their profit margins have sky rocketed just by promoting violence & hatred. One of the biggest law suites on Instagram is to curtail it’s fatally negative influence on children.
While India does not seem to have either laws or governance to curb such fatalities, we worry that we may not even be able to conceive the tremendous weakening of our young generations’, if not on morality, then certainly on their integrity & personal developments.
Science is also firm on her convictions that adverse climate changes will start affecting us in 5 years. The recent study of Antarctic glaciers marked the Thwaites Glacier (also called the Doomsday Glacier) as one of the major ice folds that could raise the sea levels up by 2 feet or more in 5 years, endangering life in many countries.
We have already seen the havoc climate played in the past year – volcanic eruptions, unusually strong & more frequent hurricanes & tornadoes, tsunamis, rain & snow in places that had not seen such climate in over 100 years!
We need to educate our children!
Children are the most critical resource of any nation. At this hour, when deadly capitalism is raging wars in other nations, hatred is destroying even the poorest of the countries, and Nature is being stripped off her dignity, we intend to play an active part in bringing literacy to the children & youth of ethnic communities through our Community Libraries program.
We have started a Book Donations Drive for our library & book hub. We welcome you to join us in the global #Read2Grow movement to facilitate reading & learning in tribal communities of India. If you would wish to run a Book Drive, read the details here. Or you could send us your own pick of Children’s Books for our first library in Balrampur.
Thank you for being with us! With your support we started helping tribal artisans of Chhattisgarh distribute their dokra art & Bastar silk sarees to Indians abroad. With your help & financial support, we are progressing with the construction work of our Balrampur library.
Please contact us if you wish to support our programs in 2022.
We are hopeful of 2022! With your help & support we will be opening our first community library this year, we will start the work on the new Varanasi library later in the year & we hope to bring you more ethnic artwork to you in the summer.
We wish you happiness, prosperity & peace!
Sincerely Yours!
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