Volume 3 Issue 1 January 2013 Transporting The year it was- R e m e m b e r i n g blood over long 2012: Let’s look Netaji: On 23 distances? The back at some of the January 1987 one best options one major events for the of the greatest son has to transport year 2012 and how of this soil was blood for upto 48 they shaped our b o r n . S o m e hours Page 3 future. Page 6 excerpts Page 9 Do you really care for the cause of India? The emotions are simmering. Facebook does not seem to be talking as much about Sachin leaving ODI as it is talking about what is happening in Delhi. Probably for the third time this year, the nation is up against the wrong doings and the youth are taking the lead. Videos from India Gate and Raisina Hills show fearless young people willing to suffer the blows of lathis, water cannons and teargas shells all for one thing - to get the people on the top to do what is right. Are you experiencing a similar emotional situation - maybe different in magnitude once in a while? Are you feeling just so bad about the state of affairs that you want to break free of your own inhibitions and do something about it? If the highest levels in the Government, there is that yes, then probably this article will help you ask some possibility of us saying no to bribe and put up a stiff fight in our personal lives to get things done without bribing more questions to yourself and find a way ahead. anyone. This kind of behaviour is not very limited to the individual alone. Let's start with who's nation this is. Is it the property of the Government of India and all of us are tenants in it? Try something next time you see people ready to break Is it that the Government has the right and the the traffic signal. When they are all set to take off few responsibility to be the whole sole authority in-charge tens of seconds before the light turns green, the of the nation and all the rest have no option but to honking will rise and the engines will ignite. In that petition or beg before the Government to bring about a moment, just resolve not to start the engine until the change? An amazing this about the several protests signal turns green. Almost immediately you will feel a seen this year, including the ones for Jan Lokpal Bill sense of compulsion to start and join the crowd. At this was that the individuals took to street to make the moment just hold your breath. Do not look at people Government realise what it should be doing. I would around you. Do not try to convince anyone. Just be like to think of myself belonging as much to this country convinced by yourself that the right thing to do is to wait as it belongs to me. A direct connection without the aid for that light to turn green. Probably people will honk of the so called Government. The problems of this badly at you. Some may even utter some foul words. nation affect me because this nation is mine. Is it the Someone would crank up the engine and jump the case that the only way I have is to request the signal followed by a couple of others. People will stare Government to act in a way that addresses my feelings at you for blocking their way. But if you carefully think, and concern for this nation? I believe that we as you will find a lot of good men and women around too, individuals, especially those who care for what goes on who seeing you do the right thing, will continue to wait around them, do have a way of making things better by till the signal turns green instead of making their way direct action. While we do fight to prevent corruption at around. The New Year Resolution for 2013 for one and all - #donateblood Resolution for regular donors: #giveblood4times, #donate platelets Sankalp Patrika Volume 3 Issue 1 Page 2 January 2013 transformation. They have started to associate this with the word Open - Open Movements! When some common people here and there thought that they had had enough of the monopoly and the exploitation of the giants in software business - the cathedral view of a computer software broke down and millions of contributors across the world created the free and open source software movement. This is just one example. There are millions. Once you pull up your socks and start working - in your own way - to solve the problems that concern you - in some time you will realise how numerous people all around you are trying to do their bits - that you are not alone. More importantly, you will realise that under the pomp and show of the so called civil structure, the enormous contribution of these individuals makes living so much more better for all of us. This is a different way of protest. This is as loud as the cry from your throat at the protest sites. Instead of lecturing the world, you are choosing not to let go of what you think is right. For a moment, you may think that there is little point in facing all the heat when anyways people do find their way around you and break the signal. But think carefully. Without uttering a word, you have been heard. If not by everyone, at least by some. By standing for what you believe in your own personal life, you not just bring about the much needed transformation and relief for yourself, but you also facilitate the movement of the society as a whole in the right direction one step at a time. Learn if you can, to work for what you believe in not only One time emotional outburst is a different thing. when the adrenaline is high, but also when you have a Expression of anger is also a different thing. If you difficult day. Learn if you can, to have faith in your own really get affected time and again by the situation relationship with this soil, and realise that working for around you then you have untapped potential energy the mother - the motherland - is a personal affair. Learn inside you. You could either use it to tell people what if you can, that beyond that smallest of steps, when they should do or you could use it to do what should be taken with persistence, without much thought given to done. the end result at every step, is all that is needed to make the best out of the journey of life. Conventional thinking has made us too dependent on the managements, the administration and the When you bring in a change in the personal self - when Government. We tend to have more faith in the power you choose to act - the biggest impact is that on of these institutions to change things than they actually yourself. From a demanding member of the society have - with all the interests with which they march up to whose intellect was being used to raise the voice, you these positions of power. This nation does not belong become a contributing member of society - whose to the Government; it belongs to its citizens. The day inner unrest is shaped into constructive good work. the person realize that when he say that the nation belongs to him - even the problems of the nation belong Kindly note that we have very high regards for the to him, things start changing. Then you stop thinking individuals who break free from the inhibitions and about what is it that people should do. You start asking, choose to hear the voice of their heart to come out what is it that I can do. When individuals do what is openly and protest! When we see the numerous there in their own capacity, however small it may seem, children who were gathered at the India Gate, we have there is a real change. deep respect for their emotions. Protest and raising the voice are definitely the first steps. However, shouting at Our times are exceptionally important because we are the deaf has limited impact. When we see the potential living in a period in history when the power of common that these very young fellow citizens have, all we can people working in their own ways, from their own wish for is that all of this energy be channelized into a places - contributing towards a bigger cause - a cause long term - sustained effort - far beyond the streets - which they believe in has brought about massive with a deep intent followed by active action to shape a better India. Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts. Sankalp Patrika Volume 3 Issue 1 Page 3 January 2013 Transporting Blood over Long Distances With better communication and coordination among the donors and blood banking community across the nation, things have improved vastly. If some years back someone had Bombay Blood Group(BBG) or had some unusual antigen/antibody, the chance of it getting detected were limited. Even if detection did happen, the possibility of organising blood in a fragmented blood donation movement like the one in our country was still smaller. Sankalp has often catered to emergency blood requests for BBG and sometimes rare sub-groups across the nation.