Dear Friends,
Albert Schweitzer (January 14, 1875) was born into an Alsatian family.He obtained a doctorate in philosophy in 1899.Then he worked as a preacher in various capacities up to 1912. Along with church activities, he continued with a distinguished musical career initiated at an early age with piano and organ lessons. He was internationally recognized as a concert organist. Schweitzer wrote a biography of Bach as well as book on organ building and playing.
He decided to go to Africa as a medical missionary rather than as a pastor and so began his studiesin medicine at the University of Strasbourg. After completing his M.D., he founded his hospital at Lambaréné in French Equatorial Africa in the year 1913. The hospital expanded by leaps and bounds and by 1960, it became 500 bedded residential hospitals.
At Lambaréné, Schweitzer was a doctor and a surgeon in the hospital, pastor of a congregation, administrator of a village, superintendent of buildings and grounds, writer of scholarly books, commentator on contemporary history, musician, host to countless visitors. He won the Nobel Peace Prize in the year 1952. This multifaceted personality died on September 4, 1965 at his place of work -Lambaréné.In this issue, we have given some of his quotable quotes.
In this month we have covered Green Warrior – Shri.PopatraoPawar
In happenings section, we have includedvarious training programmes such as: (i) Bee keeping (ii) Zero budget farming (iii) Grey water treatment (iv) Commissioning of Cow Dung and kitchen waste based portable Bio-methanationplants and usual Networking.
In the wisdom section, Kamala Chowdhry, institution builder and author of many books wants spirituality to be an important dimension in development, 
MakarandParanjape, Director of the Indian Institute of Advanced Study, Shimla says that India is not only a Desa – a Nation, but a Darshana – a Philosophy and finally E.F.Schumacher, famous author of the book “Small is beautiful” criticizes the joyless, inane, and self-destructive civilization of the West”. For reading the newsletter, please click here.
With best wishes,
G.Vasudeo,
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Vivekananda Kendra – NARDEP,
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Tamilnadu.
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