HOPE for us to Have and Give

Today I visited a person who is nearing 80. She has done yeoman service in her professional life spanning nearly 50 years and still doing in other ways. During our conversation, at one point she told that she is surprised that I carry the hope for a better to-morrow. She says, with the magnitude of (immoral) happenings that she sees around today, people (like her) of her generation hope only for the end of their mortal life. I am sure, this is not one person’s commentary, but of many.
This strikes me very hard. If our generation is creating such disdain with our previous one, we need to question ourselves what is that we are giving to our next generation? I tell myself that all these stuff of working for social development is secondary, tertiary more so…the most important meaningful work we can do ..is to create HOPE…a hope that communities and societies based on compassion, honor and truth can exist even among the ruins created by the same human society.

Senthil

Desathukku Vaanga – Vijay TV

Desathukku Vaanga (Come to our nation) is a series of documentaries on social work being done in Tamil Nadu produced by Vijay TV (a popular Tamil TV channel in South India) to commemorate the Indian Independence Day, aired on 15 August 2009. This video, part of the 4th documentary in that series, is about the founder of Payir, Senthilkumar Gopalan.

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Thenur Sivaji – Kumudam

“Thenur Sivaji” Payir and Senthil kumar featured in popular South Indian Tamil magazine Kumudam, right after the release of the tamil movie “Sivaji”, in which the super star of Tamil movies, Rajinikanth plays the role of an NRI returning back to India to serve the community. Senthil is featured as the real life “Sivaji”.

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