Tamil Nadu

This month saw a very important development in 'Green Rameshwaram' project.

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Vivekananda Kendra-nardep has worked out a detailed holistic blue print for making Rameshwaram a green pilgrimage. This involves discovering the historical, cultural and ecological linkages and reviving them. Apart from linkages we also have to revive the relations at the institutional, social and individual levels. A road map to this has been charted out. Beginning this newsletter we are sharing this with you. You can read it in detail and understand the holistic transformation VK-nardep aims to achieve in Rameshwaram by making it a green pilgrimage model island.

Enjoyment lies not in physical development, but in the culture of the mind and the intellect”.  Says Swami Vivekananda

In our school we celebrated ‘ Mothers Day’ in a grand manner on 15.02.2012. The function commenced with devotional prayer song by our teacher. Next our principal welcomed the gathering of the function. Mrs. J.

We at VK-nardep are happy to inform you that Dr.APJ Abdul Kalam inaugurated the 'Green Rameshwaram pilgrimage' project. He gave an inspiring speech. We have shared the excerpts from that talk which we are sure you will like and share it with your friends too. We are also happy to inform you that Dr.Kalam who inspected an exhibition of panels depicting our Teertham renovation work also expressed his appreciation of the work outlining the hard and dedicated work that VK-nardep workers put into this renovation project. We have a detailed report.

The Vision document in the form of a video documentary in Tamil was released at the function and was screened to the audience. It unveiled a ten-dimensional blueprint for actualizing the green Rameshwaram project.

VKRDP Monthly Report December 2013

As part of the 150th birth anniversary celebrations of Swami Vivekananda, VK-nardep has taken up the renovation of the 16 sacred teerthams of Rameshwaram. This is the continuation of the report series of the progress of the project. As the Teerthams are getting revived they are now getting used by the community for both day today use and also for ritual purposes. Many of the Teerthams are also situated near the local village shrines – particularly sacred trees.