August 2023
Director, Samanvaya gives a talk to the faculty, researchers and students of the Howard University today, Washington.
The link for the talk is available here
Email chief@samanvaya.com in case you cannot access the recording.
Note by Rev. Sara Wolcott, Director, Sequoia Samanvaya
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While our friend Ramasubramanian sojourns with us, he is offering several virtual talks on different issues pertaining to creating regenerative cultures. Yesterday was one on ethics and technologists. Next week, Wednesday, August 30, 2023, we are co-hosting a session with the Re: The Regenerative School
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Friends,
It is 14th Aug 1998. We had decided on the title of the new consulting company we were going to start and wanted to announce it to the world. The 15th of Aug that year was a weekend and we were travelling with family.
Samanvaya was born through the act of printing 25 copies of the newsletter that we edited in a DTP centre and posting it to all these people. We posted it from the Alwarpet post office in Chennai and drove back home to Madhavaram in scooter.
As I sit today in far away America in the early morning hours of 14th Aug, these are my memories of that day. Our aspiration…