Dr. Achyuta Samanta Receives Top Civilian Honour of Bahrain /PR Newswire India/ NEW DELHI, June 30, 2015 /PRNewswire/ -- KIIT & KISS Founder, Dr. Achyuta Samanta Receives Top Civilian Award of Bahrain, Which Includes Certificate, Gold Medal and $1 Million Cash Prize Dr. Achyuta Samanta, noted social entrepreneur and reformer from India, was honoured with 'Isa Award for Service to Humanity', a top civilian award of the Kingdom of Bahrain, on June 3, 2015. The "man with Midas touch" received a certificate of appreciation, a 21K gold medal and $1 million cash prize at the hands of His Majesty King Hamad of Bahrain at a special ceremony. (Photo: ) The honour is in recognition of Dr. Dr. The Award is named after the Late Amir Shaik Isa Bin Salman-Al Khalifa, the former ruler of Bahrain. It is a matter of great pride for Dr. Dr. About Dr. Dr.
Badass - Peter Freuchen Lorenc Peter Elfred Freuchen was a 6’7” tall walrus-spearing, peg-legged, anti-Semite-clobbering Danish explorer and badass old-school 1900s explorer who wore a fucking awesome coat made of polar bear fur, rocked a seriously epic beard, rode a dogsled 1,000 kilometers across the Greenland ice cap in the 1910s, killed a wolf with his bare hands, escaped a Nazi death warrant at the height of the Third Reich, amputated his own fucking gangrenous toes with a pair of pliers (and no anesthesia), and starred in a goddamned Oscar-winning movie – which was based on a book that he wrote. And this guy was so over-the-top awesome that he played the fucking villain in a movie that was loosely based around his own autobiography. He was also the fifth person to win the jackpot in the TV game show The $64,000 Question, published thirty books, founded two Adventurer’s Clubs, and his biography is called The Vagrant Viking. Need more proof? Check this shit. Oh, yeah, and he looks like this: Links: The Verge
Achyuta Samanta: At 50, my life is still a struggle to feed poor: Achyuta Samanta | Bhubaneswar News - Times of India He lost his father at the age of four and has lived a life of struggle. Now, at 50, he is one of the most successful educational entrepreneurs in the country, providing free education and healthcare to thousands of underprivileged children. On a recent visit to Kolkata, KIIT & KISS founder Achyuta Samanta shared his vision and more during an interaction with TOI's Avik Roy . You have turned a remote village in Cuttack into a world-class educational hub. I have converted one remote village into a smart village. You have brought an education revolution in Odisha. I lost my father at the age of four. Between 1996 and 2017, it has been an eventful and long journey for you. I have decided not to expand KIIT University in any part of the country and the state but only focus on enhancement of quality. Despite that millions of children in the state are yet to step inside schools of any form. Successive governments and many NGOs have been running many such free schools. I am sure it has.
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'Exorcist' Beats 3 Kids to Death, Claiming They Were Possessed by Evil Spirits Asia & Pacific Get short URL The "exorcist" reportedly told the families that the children were possessed by evil spirits. The villagers lost their senses, it is claimed, and stood in a circle around the man as he killed the children. U Tun Naing, an uncle to one of the victims, told Agence France-Presse. "On the night of the 18th, the three-year-old boy was beaten to death and the culprit threw him in the Twante canal," Kyaw told AFP. A father of one of the girls retrieved her and brought her to a hospital where a nurse advised filing a case with the police, the officer said. A police report said that the bodies of dead children showed evidence of having been punched and kicked. Meanwhile, earlier this month a man claiming to represent the International Association of Exorcists stated an urgent need to fight so-called evil forces. In Myanmar, about 90 percent of the population are Buddhist.
Why India doesn’t know Achyuta Samanta - Mumbai Mirror I can take a wager that most of you reading this article would have never heard of Achyuta Samanta. Or, for that matter, about KISS and KIIT (both in Odhisha). You would have heard of Odhisha, I am sure, but that too, only peripherally, if at all. But then, this is not Samanta's problem. KISS (Kalinga Institute of Social Sciences) is a temple of education where over 50,000 students, mostly from the remotest tribal areas, come to get an education that is free: from kindergarten to postgraduate studies. The reason I am writing this is because there are very few Samantas in India and even fewer who get their share of recognition. We have to become a country which flags off the good and the remarkable with as much vigour and at times, venom, that we do the bad. The real India is, in effect, made up of real people like Samanta. The time for India to produce more Samantas has never been more acute.
Travel Marketers Should Follow the Data on Millennials, Not Stereotypes – Skift Traveler stereotypes are a “plague” and will only prevent marketers from reaching their desired audiences, and following hard data will yield better results than giving in to easy clichés perpetuated by the media. Those are the views of Clayton Reid, CEO of MMGY Global, who addressed these themes at the Skift Global Forum at Lincoln Center, Alice Tully Hall, in Manhattan on Tuesday. “Start thinking about micro-segments,” said Reid. “You have to dig deeper beyond what those stereotypes are.” Just as many young people in the 1970s weren’t really part of the Woodstock generation, Reid says that the travel industry has dangerously misunderstood millennials, who are diverse. A video montage showed various media personalities, including Lewis Black and Stephen Colbert, describing millennials as narcissistic, ignorant, and lazy. Along these lines, Reid stated that millennials are using brick-and-mortar travel agents more than any other age group, contrary to the digital-native stereotype.
Poverty-slayer steers poor on path of learning Up close with the man who rose from the depths of poverty to transform the neglected interiors of Odisha by giving their children an opportunity to craft a better future. A day spent with the 50-year-old founder of the Kalinga Institute of Industrial Technology (KIIT) and Kalinga Institute of Social Sciences (KISS). First impressions Achyuta Samanta has a unique gait. Samanta pays his obeisance to each deity at the temple, a replica of the Puri temple but on a smaller scale. So does the man who beat all odds to build one of the largest residential institutes for tribals in the world attribute his achievement to fate or divine power? Morning ritual over, we head to his office at KISS and find ourselves sitting in a pretty garden under a kadamba tree. Although it's a working day with a packed schedule, Samanta looks relaxed and all ready for what turns out to be a long and unhurried chat. An empty cup We rewind to Samanta's past when he was four. "My father had no savings. KISS of life
Miracle Teenager Survives On His Own For Almost 6 Hours With No Wi-Fi – Waterford Whispers News IN what has been hailed as ‘a miracle’, one Waterford teenager has reportedly survived in his home with no connection to the internet for almost 6 whole hours. Answering to the name ‘David Gowan’, the 16-year-old was found in a distressed state yesterday evening, walking through a Dungarvan neighbourhood holding his Samsung Galaxy above his head looking for a signal and muttering incoherently. The emergency services were notified and David was brought to a nearby Starbucks and hooked up to their Wi-Fi immediately. It remains unclear as to how the teen was left without internet for such a long period of time, and a search has begun to find David’s parents, with fears that they may have other kids without even a single bar of coverage. “David survived without access to any social media or video sharing sites for the better part of an afternoon,” said an amazed member of Waterford’s child protection services. “No GIFs, no memes, no porn.
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Achyuta Samanta : An Inspiring Rags to Riches Story In a world, so full of competitions amongst the rich, the powerful and the rank holders, that the inner self of a human being often finds itself lost or rather trampled. We live in a world which is being ruled by Money, Power, Status and Corruption. Whether one believes it or not, there are still some people around us who could have become powerful both in strength and in financial means but who instead dared to create an equitable world sans hunger and ignorance despite being surrounded by wealth and power. In the early sixties, history was about to be written in a non-descript village Kalarabanka in the district of Cuttack. It was indeed a difficult choice for anyone grown in such a hopeless situation to think for getting education, but as if driven by an instinct, young Achyuta followed the few elderly boys to reach the school. The hunger, the poverty and the will to forge ahead kept him going. Achyuta Samanta along with the children of Kalinga Institute of Social Sciences