Date : Monday, August 18, 2003
Pune lad
transmits touch over Net
Source : TIMES NEWS NETWORK
...jnana prabodhini Prashala. Joshi says that Pune is very close to
his heart. "I spent the first 10 years my life in Mumbai. But Pune is the
city I call my home." He keeps a regular track of the city through online
newspapers and has even installed an applet (a short application programme)
on his Yahoo! personal page to follow the weather in Pune. Joshi shifted
to Pune, along with...
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Section : Pune Times
Date : Tuesday, July 29, 2003
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versions of the Ramayana form exhaustive directory
Source : TIMES NEWS NETWORK
...jnana prabodhini Indology Research Centre. “Some years ago, Prof
Gajanan Sathye, an authority in ancient scripture and languages, presented
the centre with his personal collection of books. Most of the books were
about the Ramayana. When we studied the collection, we found that there were
versions of the epic in 22 Indian and 13 international languages, including
Russian, Japanese...
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Section : Pune
Date : Wednesday, June 18, 2003
5 from
city win talent search scholarship
Source : TIMES NEWS NETWORK
...jnana prabodhini, Nigdi), Amruta Saraf (Abhinav Vidyalaya English
medium school), Sukhada Pendse (PES Modern English medium school), Rajesh
Chitnis (Abhinav Vidyalay English medium school) for std VIII and Sarang
Kulkarni (DES secondary school, Tilak road) for std IX. ...
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Section : Pune
Date : Friday, May 30, 2003
City
girl tops astronomy contest
Source : TIMES NEWS NETWORK
...jnana prabodhini school, topping the selection procedure in Mumbai
on Wednesday. Two other Pune students found their way into the
seven-member Indian squad -Rohan Chabukswar of Fergusson college and Asilata
Bapat of St Mary's school. The seven-member team -four in the seniors team
and three juniors - was selected from among 40 contestants from across the
country in a...
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Section : Pune Times
Date : Monday, December 30, 2002
CSIR
award for Jnana Prabodhini students
Source : TIMES NEWS NETWORK
...jnana prabodhini are well aware of. And so is the Council of
Scientific & Industrial Research (CSIR), which will honour these young
inventors with a special award on January 1, as a part of its diamond
jubilee celebrations. What began as a simple experiment for Pallavi Raikar,
Mukta Joglekar, Anuprita Gadre, Rujuta Gore and Sneha Bardiya, along with
their school teacher and guide Neha A...
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Section : Pune Times
Date : Thursday, November 14, 2002
Muralidharan bros blaze the lake
Source : TIMES NEWS NETWORK
...jnana prabodhini, were obviously on top of the world. Says Amita,
“The water was so light, that it was easier than swimming in a pool.”
[email protected] ...
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Section : Pune Times
Date : Wednesday, November 13, 2002
Of
what dreams may be
Source : TIMES NEWS NETWORK
...jnana prabodhini Prashala and Vidya Valley; educators of the
aspirational middle-class, which included schools run by minority
communities and top Marathi-medium schools in the city. We set out looking
for consensus. We were surprised by the variety. Even children from PMC
schools, most of whom live in slums, had a clear idea of who they want to be
and why. These children, for whom educatio...
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Section : Pune
Date : Saturday, November 2, 2002
Pune
youngsters sparkle in Astronomy Olympiad
Source : TIMES NEWS NETWORK
...jnana prabodhini School, said she had not expected to win a gold
as the Chinese and the Koreans were tough opponents. However, she pointed
out that the competitions were held in a fun-filled, jovial atmosphere. "We
were actually playing during the competitions. We were one big international
family," Radhika said. Her senior colleague, Shriharsh Tendulkar (no
relative of the cricketing supers...
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Section : Bombay Times
Date : Friday, November 1, 2002
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Indians star at astronomy olympiad
Source : TIMES NEWS NETWORK
...jnana prabodhini Prashala in Pune, who’s topped the Olympiad in
the Juniors category. “I feel there is life elsewhere too. I want to pursue
this subject.” With hardly any girls from India participating over the last
few years, this is an outstanding achievement, says G S Rautela, Director of
Nehru Science Centre. “We made it,” says a triumphant Vaibhav Niku from
Patna (he won gold in the Und...
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Section : Pune
Date : Thursday, October 31, 2002
Schooling becomes a sweet experience
Source : TIMES NEWS NETWORK
...jnana prabodhini educational institute. Initiated in 1992 with the
primary aim of educating children of migratory sugarcane labourers, the
Sakhar Shala (sugar school) has educated 7,500-odd primary and pre-primary
students across the sugarcane belts in Maharashtra till date. During
2001-02, approximately 34 sugar factories from western Maharashtra had
introduced the Sakhar Shalas in their facto...
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Section : Pune
Date : Sunday, July 7, 2002
Pune’s
women poojaris: Breaking through the ‘sacred’ cordon
Source : TIMES NEWS NETWORK
...jnana prabodhini, which took up cudgels on behalf of women priests
in 1990. While the SSS preferred to train women in performance of rituals in
the traditional manner, jnana prabodhini (JP) went a step further by
modifying some of the rituals by combining the traditional with the modern.
JP also prepared a set of 20 books comprising scriptures for each of the
rituals, ranging from a naming c...
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Section : Pune
Date : Sunday, July 7, 2002
‘Women
priests much in demand’
Source : TIMES NEWS NETWORK
...jnana prabodhini (JP), a city-based organisation which has been
working to promote women priests since 1990, has a reason to smile as more
and more people have started accepting women priests to perform rituals for
them. So did the JP face any opposition, especially because women were
inducted into the activity? “No,” says Yashwant Lele, who heads one such
project. “Traditional priests cann...
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Section : India
Date : Sunday, June 23, 2002
Women
priests for the jet age
Source : TIMES NEWS NETWORK
...jnana prabodhini (JP), has blended tradition with modernity in its
three-month course, which was started in 1990. So far, over 800 people, half
of whom are women, have completed the course. Apart from giving training,
Prabodhini’s core team of 17 male and eight female priests also regularly
performs all rituals. In Kerala — God’s own country — till a few years ago,
anything related to Vedic hym...
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Section : Pune Times
Date : Friday, June 14, 2002
Way to
go!
Source : TIMES NEWS NETWORK
...jnana prabodhini, has secured the 19th rank beating back thousands
from across the country. Pratik, the only child of an engineer father and
architect mother, confesses that becoming an airforce pilot has been his
childhood dream. “I have always wanted to be a pilot, because there is no
greater joy than being completely free in the blue skies.” Pratik, who makes
model airplanes from LEGO...
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Section : Pune Times
Date : Monday, June 3, 2002
Astronomical dreams
Source : TIMES NEWS NETWORK
...jnana prabodhini, is the first girl to represent the country at
the Olympiad. Says she, “I fell in love with astronomy the day I set foot
into the Nehru Planetarium five years ago.” Both are thrilled to represent
India. “It is a big honour and we have to make India proud,” they say.
[email protected] ...
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Section : Pune Times
Date : Sunday, May 19, 2002
Three
out, six in
Source : TIMES NEWS NETWORK
...jnana prabodhini Medical Trust (JPMT) and the Mangeshkar family,
while Inlaks is a Sadhu Vaswani Mission enterprise. We do not wish to
disturb donor comfortability, or fuel a quandary. Hospitals have a lot to do
with comfort levels,” he clarified. “Dada J P Vaswani is going to bless the
venture on May 26. We will issue an official statement then,” Vaswani said.
[email protected]...
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Section : Pune
Date : Sunday, May 5, 2002
Punekars value family above all else
Source : TIMES NEWS NETWORK
...jnana prabodhini Samshodhan Sanstha and the jnana prabodhini
Institute of Psychology. It involved 211 citizens drawn from every section
of the Pune society. And according to scholars who undertook it, a record 80
per cent of the respondents said they the derived highest satisfaction from
family. The survey, sponsored by the University Grants Commission (UGC)
started out in 1999 to find ou...
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Section : Local Sports
Date : Friday, January 18, 2002
City
Sports
Source : TIMES NEWS NETWORK
...jnana prabodhini, Nigdi was crowned 'Pune Shree' at the Bhausaheb
Marne memorial best phyisique contest organised by the Body Temple Gymnasium
and Health Club at Yeshwantrao Chavan hall, Kothrud on Wednesday.
The district team was selected for the forth coming state championship, to
be held at Sawantwadi on January 27.
The results: 60-kg: Ajay Jagtap, Yogesh Malsure, Santosh Randhir, Baj...
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Section : Pune Times
Date : Wednesday, January 9, 2002
Ayurveda Inc. disowning India
Source : TIMES NEWS NETWORK
...jnana prabodhini, also agrees that there is steady development
taking place in the field of ayurveda.
"Whether in purification methods or preservation techniques, ayurvedic
practitioners are doing very well in India. It might not seem apparent
because of limited media attention, but the truth is that things are moving
pretty well in India too," he says.
In his lecture, Shanbhag also ...
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Section : Pune Times
Date : Friday, December 14, 2001
...and the charade begins
Source : TIMES NEWS NETWORK
...jnana prabodhini road in Sadashiv Peth, the Sharad Pandit road and
the Moledina road are being paved and redone. In fact, in a rare gesture of
concern for traffic, work on the stretch of Moledina road in front of
Dorabjee’s super-market, is actually being done in the night only.
The citizens of these areas are not exactly getting taken in by this
last-minute civic concern. Shirish Joshi, a ...
Section : Pune Times
Date : Saturday, November 24, 2001
History: Whose story
Source : TIMES NEWS NETWORK
...jnana prabodhini, one of Pune’s leading CBSE schools, is not
surprised by the notification. According to him, the CBSE head office
had asked schools in the states of Punjab and Haryana to delete
text-book matter pertaining to the Sikh leader Guru Gobind Singh, based
on a high court notification in 1995, following a case filed by an
aggrieved citizen.
Ponkshe is of the opinion that as the wr...
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Section : Pune Times
Date : Thursday, October 25, 2001
Who you gonna call? Bug busters!
Source : TIMES NEWS NETWORK & AGENCIES
...jnana prabodhini school, are pioneers of sorts, having dared
to tread into the world of quality control, when the herd instinct
suggested software development. That was in 1997. Starting modestly,
with just one customer in the USA, which roped them a first year's
turnover of Rs 12 lakh, the trio, who run Prabodhan Infosystems Private
Limited in Pune, are looking at a healthy Rs 2 crore turnover...
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Section : Pune
Date : Tuesday, October 9, 2001
Mangeshkar hospital ready for inauguration
Source : TIMES NEWS NETWORK
...jnana prabodhini trust, which will manage the medical aspect
of the Mangeshkar hospital as well. Since the hospital will be fully
computerised, work for creating the required infrastructure was already
on.
Asked about the hospital equipment, Dr Kelkar said, 95 per cent of the
equipment has been imported and will start landing at Mumbai over the
next fortnight. "Actually the equipment would ...
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Section : Pune Times
Date : Friday, September 14, 2001
Mukta reincarnate
Source : TIMES NEWS NETWORK
...jnana prabodhini School, Prachiti is a class nine student who
seems ‘to the stage born'. When we meet her, she is busy enjoying her
ice cream very inno-cently, but stiffens on seeing us, quickly hand-ing
over the ice cream to her father. However, once we assure her that its
okay, she resumes enjoying her ice cream and willingly settles down to
talk about her unique show.
This gifted young g...
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Section : Pune Times
Date : Sunday, September 2, 2001
Dancing decent, Dhol-ing down!
Source :
...jnana prabodhini Prashala, situated in the cultural stronghold
of Pune – Sadashiv Peth, has been stressing it's point of an immersion
procession, with religious and disciplinary ethos.
Their move is as simple as bringing decorum to the immersion. But that
definitely does not mean loosing the adrenaline and not making a
spectacle full of grandeur. It's just that they are trying their best
to...
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Section : Pune Times
Date : Thursday, August 30, 2001
Blame it on Tilak?
Source : TIMES NEWS NETWORK
...jnana prabodhini School revived ancient marching skills and
martial dance moves to bring decorum and spectacle to the unruly
immersion procession.
Organisations of various political hues and colour are engaged in the
festival reform process. So is everything fine with the festival? No
Siree! Is the abortion rate likely to go up? Dunno!!
What we do know is that the festival is her...
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Section : Pune
Date : Wednesday, June 20, 2001
Stress and suicide: GenNext under too much pressure?
Source : THE TIMES OF INDIA NEWS SERVICE
...jnana prabodhini Research Institute, says that students and
parents do not know how to adjust to success or failure.
"We have no patience, we are obsessed with speed, possess an unrealistic
image of our self and generally have forgotten the importance of
tolerance and endurance," she observes. Her close interaction with
students has revealed that even the bright and intelligent among them
find...
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