Guest guest Posted July 26, 2006 Report Share Posted July 26, 2006 Dear All, I am really wonder stuck by this word from many people. I know very less about Mumbai. It was always a transit station for me to go to Gujarat. Currently I am staying in USA. Could some one give me more info on the biscuit distribution by these slum dwellers. The smallest packet of ParleG costs (Rs2 for 100gms, I think so). So to distribute in that large scale it costs a lot for them. Where do they get these. Also I read during the bomb blasts they did the same thing. I always felt that these people are to be removed from the tracks as it is dangerous for their living. I used to see that they have everything in that small house and are totally connected to the outside world. But they are doing a wonderful job during calamities. Now I have more appreciation for these people. There is no mention of saying that they sell the biscuits, but is offered for free. So please give me more info on this. How are they getting and how can they have so much in stock to mass distribute during these times. Om Namo Naraya Naaya Sreenivas Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted July 27, 2006 Report Share Posted July 27, 2006 Dear Mr. Sreenivas, Om Namo Narayanaya, You may also have read in the july'06 issue of Readers Digest that Mumbai is one of the rudest cities in the world. you are perplexed how poor slum dwellers could offer biscuits to people trapped in the trains during the floods. as Syamalaji will agree, the slum dwellers of mumbai have small dwellings but ARE THE OWNERS OF LARGE HEARTS. i have lived in mumbai all my life and sure was agitated when Readers Digest branded mumbai rude just by conducting experiments like dropping some files on a busy road and checking if someone helps. Now that is the beauty and mystery of this city. It has no time for small niceties but in a calamity there is no city like mumbai. Syamalaji's letter brings back all the memories of last year's flood in mumbai.i stay at santacruz which is close to kalina, and this was the worst hit area. people lost everything that they had accumulated over the years...furniture,utensils,college degrees, photos and most of all their loved ones.One day of rain changed their secure lives forever! Still it was heartening to see those who survived the ordeal, willing to share whatever they had with others. even shops, had no provisions as the flood water soaked up everything and it literally floated on the roads. but everywhere human beings,rich or poor for once set aside all differences and tried to be of help to others. Let me tell you, at this time no one thought of money as anything but only in what way it could be of help to others. Dr.Jayalakshmi of kalina , was one individual, who I saw literally doing to perfection what the Lord wants us to do always for the needy and perhaps it was her pure dedication that helped her to gather all that she needed to help the affected in Kalina.she would attend to her dispensary in the morning after preparing 'khicdi' and packing it for at least 300-400 homeless people.Then from afternoon she would be busy until night conducting medical camps along with some more doctors who she roped in. Some of us volunteered to help her and when i asked a few friends if they could contribute some money, i must say what a generous response i got. Two vehicles of clothes, provisions and utensils and around Rs. 10000/- in cash!this we used to buy medicines and vaccines. Dr. had a camp for nearly one month and the local lions club also pitched in. A calamity had struck, but it had opened the hearts of people. During the recent mumbai blasts too, we saw that even before the police and ambulance , it was the local slum dwellers who helped in rescuing the injured by bringing bedsheets from their homes and using it as stretchers! believe me ,it is not wealth by money that counts,you can call yourself WEALTHY if you are the owner of a heart that can reach out to others who are in need.IT IS IN THE HOMES OF THE POOR THAT YOU SEE GOD REALLY. Humbly, Jayashree guruvayur , " Sreenivas " <sreenivas_r wrote: > > Dear All, > > I am really wonder stuck by this word from many people. I know very less about Mumbai. It was always a transit station for me to go to Gujarat. Currently I am staying in USA. Could some one give me more info on the biscuit distribution by these slum dwellers. The smallest packet of ParleG costs (Rs2 for 100gms, I think so). So to distribute in that large scale it costs a lot for them. Where do they get these. Also I read during the bomb blasts they did the same thing. I always felt that these people are to be removed from the tracks as it is dangerous for their living. I used to see that they have everything in that small house and are totally connected to the outside world. But they are doing a wonderful job during calamities. Now I have more appreciation for these people. There is no mention of saying that they sell the biscuits, but is offered for free. So please give me more info on this. How are they getting and how can they have so much in stock to mass distribute during these times. > > Om Namo Naraya Naaya > > Sreenivas > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted July 27, 2006 Report Share Posted July 27, 2006 Dear Jayashree Ji, Thanks for the info. After reading your mail. I feel that you/we probably has to send mail to the authour of the article or to Readers Digest asking them to change their findings. Mumbai has always raised to the calamities. Now I remeber when there was an earth quake, people have come from Hyderbad and from sourrounding places to take care of the emergencies. When Katrina has happened here in USA, there was not trace of any voluntary organisation going for helping except for Red cross which is a default org doing it. In one of the groups mail, this is what has been mentioned. I am not sure wether I can find that mail, but I will to locate it. Kudos once again to the slum dwellers. They hardly have anything to wear and cover themselves, but they have give even those during the Bomb blasts. I salute to them. In western countries what I have observerd is, there is nothing like called "Sharing". I used to offer the food to taste or even sometimes to cool down their hunger to some extent during my lunch hour. They used to tell me that you will be Hungry with little food left. I used to say its fine. Most of the people here say that Indians will never leave people without offering the food. There is lot of food to eat. But still they don't learn. They continue their way of living. Om Namo Narayanaya Sreenivas - jayashree_662001 guruvayur Wednesday, July 26, 2006 11:40 PM [Guruvayur/Guruvayoor] Re: Biscuitsdistribution by Slum Dwellers Dear Mr. Sreenivas,Om Namo Narayanaya,You may also have read in the july'06 issue of Readers Digest that Mumbai is one of the rudest cities in the world.you are perplexed how poor slum dwellers could offer biscuits to people trapped in the trains during the floods. as Syamalaji will agree, the slum dwellers of mumbai have small dwellings but ARE THE OWNERS OF LARGE HEARTS. i have lived in mumbai all my life and sure was agitated when Readers Digest branded mumbai rude just by conducting experiments like dropping some files on a busy road and checking if someone helps. Now that is the beauty and mystery of this city. It has no time for small niceties but in a calamity there is no city like mumbai.Syamalaji's letter brings back all the memories of last year's flood in mumbai.i stay at santacruz which is close to kalina, and this was the worst hit area. people lost everything that they had accumulated over the years...furniture,utensils,college degrees, photos and most of all their loved ones.One day of rain changed their secure lives forever! Still it was heartening to see those who survived the ordeal, willing to share whatever they had with others.even shops, had no provisions as the flood water soaked up everything and it literally floated on the roads.but everywhere human beings,rich or poor for once set aside all differences and tried to be of help to others. Let me tell you, at this time no one thought of money as anything but only in what way it could be of help to others.Dr.Jayalakshmi of kalina , was one individual, who I saw literally doing to perfection what the Lord wants us to do always for the needy and perhaps it was her pure dedication that helped her to gather all that she needed to help the affected in Kalina.she would attend to her dispensary in the morning after preparing 'khicdi' and packing it for at least 300-400 homeless people.Then from afternoon she would be busy until night conducting medical camps along with some more doctors who she roped in. Some of us volunteered to help her and when i asked a few friends if they could contribute some money, i must say what a generous response i got. Two vehicles of clothes, provisions and utensils and around Rs. 10000/- in cash!this we used to buy medicines and vaccines. Dr. had a camp for nearly one month and the local lions club also pitched in. A calamity had struck, but it had opened the hearts of people. During the recent mumbai blasts too, we saw that even before the police and ambulance , it was the local slum dwellers who helped in rescuing the injured by bringing bedsheets from their homes and using it as stretchers!believe me ,it is not wealth by money that counts,you can call yourself WEALTHY if you are the owner of a heart that can reach out to others who are in need.IT IS IN THE HOMES OF THE POOR THAT YOU SEE GOD REALLY. Humbly,Jayashreeguruvayur , "Sreenivas" <sreenivas_r wrote:>> Dear All,> > I am really wonder stuck by this word from many people. I know very less about Mumbai. It was always a transit station for me to go to Gujarat. Currently I am staying in USA. Could some one give me more info on the biscuit distribution by these slum dwellers. The smallest packet of ParleG costs (Rs2 for 100gms, I think so). So to distribute in that large scale it costs a lot for them. Where do they get these. Also I read during the bomb blasts they did the same thing. I always felt that these people are to be removed from the tracks as it is dangerous for their living. I used to see that they have everything in that small house and are totally connected to the outside world. But they are doing a wonderful job during calamities. Now I have more appreciation for these people. There is no mention of saying that they sell the biscuits, but is offered for free. So please give me more info on this. How are they getting and how can they have so much in stock to mass distribute during these times.> > Om Namo Naraya Naaya> > Sreenivas .. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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