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Trauma Relief Archive

Have you observed what happens when rain falls on parched earth? When the skies open up to a free fall of unbiased, all encompassing, loving, fresh rain? That is what...

Violence Lingers, Yet Love Conquers

Day 15 in Assam. Trauma continues, here and there, in bits, pieces and chunks. Miscreants loaded in trucks, jeeps and bikes, men, women and children, with torches in...

Love In The Time of Insurrection

How simple it is, to characterize an event as black, or white. This is exactly how the sordid Assam riots have been viewed, or made to be viewed. ‘Communal, anti-national...

Appeal For Assam Crisis

Current Situation The recent spate of large-scale riots in Assam, according to conservative estimates, has claimed 53 lives and over 3 lakh victims have been displaced. Men,...

Healing Breath Flows Through Kyrgyzstan

“International Association for Human Values (IAHV) gives hope to people, teaches us to live in spite of difficulties, and teaches us to forgive and enjoy every...

Antidote to the virus of terror

by Mamta Kailkhura The resilience of India is on test yet again even as her people reel in another phase of fear, sorrow and anger following the latest serial blasts...

Satsang offers a blanket of calm over Mumbai

On 21 July, 2011, eight days after three coordinated bomb blasts affected Mumbai, satsang sooths nerves. “I feel much calmer and at peace now; the dreadful memory...

Ex- LTTE combatants` transformation in Sri Lanka

The conclusion of the war in Sri Lanka in May 2009 saw the displacement of over 2,75,000 people. Some of them who were serving in the erstwhile Liberation Tigers of Tamil...

Trauma Relief

The Art of Living and its sister organisation, the International Association for Human Values ( IAHV), have been working in Iraq since 2003. Even when most NGOs were...

Sarita Bajpai: Reviving Peace

Chhattisgarh is a naxal-affected area where facing the challenges of survival is a part of the daily lives of its people. However, there are a few who are not ready...