Category Archives: Sankalp

Looking for blood?

Disha, a project by Sankalp, runs a Centralized Blood Stock Information and Management System. It offers a single helpline for all blood requests. Any person searching for blood needs to dial just a single number to find out the closest place where safe blood is available. Continue reading

Remembering Deshbandhu

What is freedom? It is impossible to define the term; but one may describe it as that state, that condition, which makes it possible for a nation to realize its own individuality and to evolve its own destiny.

-Deshbandhu Chittaranjan Das
Presidential speech
I.N.C. Session, 1922, Gaya. Continue reading

Remembering Jatin Das

These days when fasting has become a trend for most politicians, does anyone remember Jatin Das? Today is his birth anniversary. He was a true comrade of HSRA, the league of Bhagat Singh, Sukhdev, Rajguru, Ram Prasad Bismil, Ashfaqullah Khan, Roshan Singh and Chandrashekar Azad. Jatin Das fasted for 63 days in Lahore jail, and attained martyrdom, with his fast unbroken, his spirits unconquered! Jatin da, We salute you. Continue reading

भगतसिंह ने कहा था…

‎”The British are rocked, their roots have been shaken. There will be an agreement and they will leave this land in about fifteen years, but the people won’t be benefited in anyway. Many years will pass in confusion. Then the people will recall me” – Shaheed Bhagat Singh. On this event of the birthday of this great thinker and martyr, here is a compilation of a few of his speeches in Hindi- Continue reading

If they answer not to thy call, walk alone!

Today is Independence day. The day some of us wait so eagerly for! The day, I as a child never missed the flag hoisting ceremony on TV. The day, I hoisted flag in my colony and distributed sweets among my neighbours. The day I never missed the afternoon film on Doordarshan. Thanks to Sankalp, the day has only become more meaningful to me. Continue reading