Wishing you a year filled with happiness, peace, and prosperity. Happy Tamil New Year!
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Sunday, April 14, 2024
Happy Tamil New Year
மகிழ்ச்சி, அமைதி மற்றும் செழிப்பு நிறைந்த ஆண்டாக அமைய வாழ்த்துக்கள். இனிய தமிழ் புத்தாண்டு வாழ்த்துக்கள்!
Thursday, April 11, 2024
Eid Mubarak 2024
"Moonlight floods the whole sky from horizon to horizon; How much it can fill your room depends on its windows." - Rumi
Let's open our hearts and homes to the blessings and joys of Eid and may our lives be filled with the radiance of the heavens.
Tuesday, April 9, 2024
To New Beginnings!
“Start where you are. Use what you have. Do what you can.” - Arthur Ashe
What better way to start than by gathering together and celebrating our rich culture and enlightened heritage of diversity, as the symphony of summer unfolds with opportunities for new beginnings!
#newbeginnings #symphonyofsummer #chaitranavratri #gudipadwa #navreh #navratri #navaratri #sajibucheiraoba #ugadi #ugadi2024 #Veritadyne
Friday, March 8, 2024
Happy Women's Day 2024
Happy International Women’s Day to all the amazing women and the brilliant, supportive men out there!
As individuals, it's crucial to recognize, appreciate, and actively promote the inclusion of women and girls, in line with the campaign theme for International Women's Day 2024 which is ‘Inspire Inclusion’. Sharing this understanding, support, and encouragement with others is equally vital.
• Ensuring access to quality education and training for women & girls
• Empowering women economically and financially
• Facilitating women & girls' involvement in leadership, decision-making, business, and STEM fields
• Providing informed health choices for women & girls
• Recruiting, nurturing, and advancing diverse talent
• Engaging women & girls in sustainability initiatives, including agriculture and food security initiatives
• Designing infrastructure that meets the specific needs of women & girls
• Enhancing women & girls' participation and success in sports
• Promoting the creative and artistic endeavors of women & girls
By taking concerted action in these areas and addressing any additional areas vital for the progress of women & girls, organizations and groups can actively foster a more inclusive and equitable society for women and girls.
Invest in Women: Accelerate Progress!
Saturday, February 24, 2024
Happy Lunar New Year & Bright Lantern Festival!
Light the Lanterns! From spirituality to socialising to spectacle, the rubescent gleam of lanterns vies with the brilliance of the Full Moon as Day 15 of the Spring Festival explodes in the dazzling climax of the Lantern Festival, ushering in bright hope for a wholesome and prosperous year ahead! Amidst this revelry is also a time for reflection and reunion. तमसो मा ज्योतिर्गमय holds special meaning as we seek to move with purpose from the darkness of ignorance unto the light of understanding.
The Lantern Festival brings hope to people and spirits alike! Lost and wandering souls are guided to their destinies by the light of lanterns carried along the streets by their families, as malevolent spirits are guided away from homes. It is an evening to also honour nature and higher beings.
As for the spirit, so for the mind! Learning never stops even on Day 15 of the Spring Festival as the Lantern Festival offers pleasurable intellectual stimulation for all ages in the form of riddle slips attached to lanterns, conveying befuddling puzzles, pithy wisdom, and omens. Try one: Which is faster, hot or cold? This is also a day of love. In times long gone, evenings around the Lantern Festival offered an opportunity for otherwise cloistered young women to be out and about with the community, admiring the spectacle of light while being secretly admired by potential suitors. Each attempting to convey their love through heartfelt poems delicately concealed within these lantern riddles:
"If there is light in the soul,
There will be beauty in the person.
If there is beauty in the person,
There will be harmony in the house.
If there is harmony in the house,
There will be order in the nation.
If there is order in the nation,
There will be peace in the world."
- Chinese Proverb
Wishing everyone a bright Lantern Festival and a happy Lunar New Year!
#YearOfTheDragon | #LunarNewYear | #LunarNewYear2024 | #ChineseNewYear | #ChineseNewYear2024 | #SpringFestival | #LanternFestival
Sunday, February 4, 2024
World Cancer Day!
This World Cancer Day, let us renew our commitment to raise awareness, take preventive actions, continue researching and developing effective as well as affordable treatments, and widen access to timely detection, advanced therapeutics, and quality palliative care.
First steps?
Your health is in your hands!
#Cancer #cancerday #cancerawareness #WorldCancerDay #prevention #treatment #mindfulness #sustainability #veritadyne
First steps?
- Cultivate thoughtfulness
- Live sustainably
- Eat mindfully
Your health is in your hands!
#Cancer #cancerday #cancerawareness #WorldCancerDay #prevention #treatment #mindfulness #sustainability #veritadyne
Saturday, May 20, 2023
World Bee Day 2023
The world's pollinators, including the irreplaceable bees are under threat of extinction! Imagine a world without natural pollination leading to extinction of many crops and lower production of food which is vital for human survival.
What can we do?
- encourage sustainable agricultural products & buying from local farmers
- avoiding pesticides and other chemicals in gardens
- encouraging growth of native plants including weeds which will flower in different seasons
- protecting bee colonies
- provide water for many animals including bees
- leaving forests alone
- raising awareness about bees and other pollinators.
Save the bees, save the world. Consume only sustainably-produced natural honey.
Watch this video of a reading of the book "The Bee Master" which does an excellent job of educating people about bees and on handling beehives in residential areas.
Monday, May 15, 2023
International Day of Families 2023
"A happy family is but an earlier heaven." G.B. Shaw
On International Day of Families, we commemorate 'Family' - the foundational unit of a happy, productive and prosperous society. If you have one, cherish it.
#InternationalFamilyDay #familyday #family #familytime #familyfun #FamilyFirst #familylove #prosperity #happy #happiness #society #cherish #heaven #veritadyne
Friday, May 12, 2023
International Nurses Day 2023
Today marks International Nurses Day, commemorating the birth anniversary of the founder of modern nursing, Florence Nightingale.
Beyond her stellar contributions during the Crimean war, leading to the emergence of her now-famous persona “The Lady with the Lamp”, her most important contribution was creating the first secular nursing school! Florence Nightingale thus laid the foundation of professional nursing at the St Thomas hospital which is now part of King’s College London. She was also a mentor to many women, who went on to become the first trained nurses in various countries, including the United States.
Healthcare professionals, medical personnel and caregivers need good educators and a supportive education system to not just perfect critical skills but also engender the warmth of caregiving, which goes beyond the clinical practice of Medicine.
As an educator myself and having taught pre-med and nursing students for many years in core clinical subjects, I too have had the privilege of learning from close quarters the import of this vital profession.
India too has a rich contemporary history of producing not only a great number of nurses but also highly capable, adaptable and conscientious individuals who have proved their mettle in some of the toughest situations including World War II.
So, here’s to our Nurses! May the light of Florence Nightingale’s lamp be a beacon for holistic education and the warmth needed for caregiving! Our Nurses. Our Future.
🎨Henrietta Rae (1881/91) courtesy Wellcome Library, London.
#nurse #InternationalNursesDay #nurses #nursesday #nursing #health #healthcare #medicine #medical #education #FlorenceNightingale #publichealth #hygiene #sanitation #hospital #veritadyne
Monday, May 1, 2023
Labour Day 2023
"It is only through labour and painful effort, by grim energy and resolute courage, that we move on to better things." - Theodore Roosevelt
#Veritadyne #Labourday #labourday2023 #laborday #Laborday2023 #workersday #workers #work #working #mayday
Tuesday, April 11, 2023
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Monday, March 20, 2023
March 20th - International Day of Happiness/World Sparrow day!
Today, March 20th, marks the UN International day of Happiness as well as the World Sparrow day!
The purpose of the International day of happiness is to recognize the value of happiness in our lives, acknowledge the privilege that it is to be happy and create awareness.
Since for me, happiness and sparrows have a strong connection since childhood, it is a delightful coincidence that both these days are celebrated on the same day every year!
We grew up watching sparrows fly in and out of our homes, build nests in roof corners and crevices, feed their young and relish the rice grains that we gave them to eat. They are active birds who spread a lot of joy with their sweet chirping and of course keep our house free from pests & insects. So many of our childhood stories had the presence of the humble sparrow, making our evenings beautiful and our imagination soar!
The sparrow is a lesson in itself in thriving in the face of adversity and having very successful rates of survival in new continents and countries where they were introduced by man. They were masters at coexisting with humans, while also keeping their 'wild animals' status intact. Sparrows are known to travel hundreds of kilometers in a year and have been seen as high as the observation deck of the Empire State building!
Although ranked as 'least concern' in the International Union of Conservation of Nature's (IUCN) red list, their population has been declining at an alarming rate throughout the world. This is very much related to high levels of pollution, climate change, water/food scarcity and extreme increase in human population. It has now become very hard to spot sparrows in cities in India.
Luckily, we still observe them on a daily basis, coming to drink water and eat the grains that we put out for them, along with other birds. It takes very little for us humans to include animals around us in our everyday life by providing few basic necessities. These all add up in helping maintain the delicate ecosystem, food web and ecological balance, which is very important. Every living being has a role in the ecosystem and the more we destroy natural habitats and ignore the order of nature, the more repercussions we will need to face.
Happy World Sparrow day and International day of Happiness. May we derive our happiness from helping other living beings and just letting them live!
#Internationaldayofhappiness #worldsparrowday #happiness #happy #world #earth #sparrow #birds #society #cities #urban #animals #ecosystem #balance #saveanimals #savebirds #adaptability #thrive
Wednesday, March 8, 2023
Friday, March 3, 2023
Jamshedji Tata - an inspiration!
Commemorating the life & legacy of Jamshedji Nusserwanji Tata - a man of extraordinary vision, prodigious fortitude, and unyielding industriousness - at 184.
In the words of Pt. Jawaharlal Nehru, who called him a 'One Man Planning Commission' - "When you have to give the lead in action, in ideas – a lead which does not fit in with the very climate of opinion – that is true courage, physical or mental or spiritual, call it what you like, and it is this type of courage and vision that Jamshedji Tata showed. It is right that we should honour his memory and remember him as one of the big founders of modern India."
In the words of Pt. Jawaharlal Nehru, who called him a 'One Man Planning Commission' - "When you have to give the lead in action, in ideas – a lead which does not fit in with the very climate of opinion – that is true courage, physical or mental or spiritual, call it what you like, and it is this type of courage and vision that Jamshedji Tata showed. It is right that we should honour his memory and remember him as one of the big founders of modern India."
#JamshedjiTata#JamdetjiTata #JNTata #tata #Jamshedpur #India #Industry #Steel #tatasteel #founders #planning
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While there are many expectations for improvements in our world health, due to promises in AI, innovations in omics technologies, materials & nanotechnology etc., the actual realization of excellence in healthcare will boil down to getting some basics right!
Not only excellence in treatment of common ailments, but also on improvement of diagnostic tools and preventive health care/wellness, including:
· Availability of vaccines of all kinds to general public
· Regular, mandatory screening programs for common issues like blood pressure, diabetes as well as cancers & other diseases
· Increase in rehabilitation resources for recovering patients from various illnesses including development of communities where people & families can find the necessary support
· Accessibility & resources promoting inclusivity of people with disabilities
· Quality childcare where children are taken care of and also provided with quality stimulation and excellent nutrition for growth
· Women’s and children’s health - more research and research funding allocation
· Rare diseases research and funding allocation has to increase exponentially
· Organ donation - universal improvements in policies, procedures and their implementation
· Neurodevelopmental and neurodegenerative diseases – increased workforce, research and sensitization
· Geriatric population studies
· Health, fitness and wellness education; nutrition & exercise physiology
· Mental health research, improvement in international policies and sensitization
Some of the biggest challenges will be in implementing all of the above in addition to latest trends in treatment & diagnostics equally among all countries. Ensuring such accessibility, equity and ethics would remain the biggest challenge in our future. Unless new tools and technologies are monitored for safety & ethics, and made available equally for every man, woman and child, we can unfortunately never claim healthcare for all!