What the West can learn from the East

Three recent media stories on Aid to India

Hot topic at the moment with the Tories freezing DFID aid to India, its biggest grant recipient...

http://www.guardian.co.uk/global-development/poverty-matters/2011/feb/18/uk-india-aid-politicians-right-media

http://www.guardian.co.uk/global-development/2010/sep/14/mdg1-hunger-poverty-india

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-12607537

Western People going to the East and putting their ideas forward

The Art of Predicting the future.

My favourite quote on the future was at a gig I was at in Bexhill in January. A fan shouted out to Patti Smith: "When's the new albumn coming out?"
She replied: "You sound like my record company. Who do you think I am; Nostradamus?"

"In the year 6565,
won't need no husband, won't need no wife.
You'll pick your sons, pick your daughters too,
from the bottom of a long glass tube."
(In the year 2525)

Well, if memory serves me well, this happened in 1978, with the birth of Louise Brown. So that prediction of 6565 was only 4,587 years incorrect!

Views on life & Death in East & West

-& the second part of the video is about Sangharakshita's translation wishes:

For the latest portuguese translations of Bhante's work please contact my Brazilian friend Marcia. Cheers, Paul (Crosland)

Sustainability and Population worldwide

Relationships in India

Tourism etc in Kerala

More from William Wong, recorded at NESTA 8th February "Collaborative Consumption" event

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