KARMANYA and SUKRITHAM

This morning I registered two charitable trusts. The first is KARMANYA Trust for Education and Training for Employment. This is an umbrella organization under which I intend to build progressively a series of world class training institutions of such excellence that employment will be in abundance. Each of these institutions will be governed by a board in which authentic trainers, employers, academicians apart from the investors will be represented. I want to cover a series of trades starting from masonry and plumbing to high level professions. The first project on the anvil is KARMANYA Plumbers Institute in which highly skilled plumbers will be trained with the help of international association of plumbing who will give technical and training support. The trained plumbers will not only get ready employment in India and abroad, but also twice or thrice the earnings when compared to the present.

The second trust registered today is SUKRITHAM Geriatric trust under which a series of facilities for the aged including self contained townships are proposed to be organized. 

A new Avatar...as a ‘Social Entrepreneur’.

Last Saturday to Sunday afternoon I stayed at the Sri Sri Ravi Shankar Ashram in Bangalore. It was a time of solitude amidst the Ashram’s blissfully peaceful surroundings.

I had the privilege of a personal one to one audience with Guruji for a half hour Guruji had taken a personal interest / liking for me the last time I visited the Ahsram as the Chief Guest alongwith Sri Vellappilly Natesan at the Malayali Sangamam on 15th August 2013. It was a joyous occasion in which about 8000 Art of Living followers from Kerala had participated.

Guruji had taken me in his car to his room after the meeting and discussed with me my life and future plans. He expressed the feeling that I am not being properly utilised by the powers that be and had advised me to be bolder and strike forth to use my capabilities for the service of the country.

The General Elections came soon afterwards; I was in the forefront of Congress candidates for the Kollam seat which I had represented three times earlier. The intervening period of my absence had made Kollam electorate sympathetic to me, my contributions had been acknowledged especially in comparison to others and the consensus of opinion among the public was that I could win the seat if chosen as the candidate. There was also at least half a dozen other aspiring candidates apart from the sitting MP.