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Book Reviews – Drug Addiction, Edited by: Dr. (Col.) Rajinder Singh

Book Reviews – Drug Addiction, Edited by: Dr. (Col.) Rajinder Singh Publisher: The Kalgidhar Trust Baru Sahib Pages: 208, Price: Rs. 150/-, Year: 2012   “Apart from providing statistics, various chapters in this volume look at assorted aspects of drug addiction and alcoholism, including the causes and sources of supply of such substances, and endeavour […]

Book Reviews – Drug Addiction, Edited by: Dr. (Col.) Rajinder Singh

Publisher: The Kalgidhar Trust Baru Sahib

Pages: 208, Price: Rs. 150/-, Year: 2012

 

  • “Apart from providing statistics, various chapters in this volume look at assorted aspects of drug addiction and alcoholism, including the causes and sources of supply of such substances, and endeavour to suggest viable methods for fighting the menace. The research done is both extensive and intensive. There are many articles, both in English and Punjabi, included in this volume that should be of interest to law enforcers, rehabilitation experts and researchers, apart from the general public.”
    Randeep Wadehra, The Tribune

 

  • “Salient aspects of drug addiction are well covered as regards its prevalence, origin and perpetuation. The devastating effects of the addiction of various types be it alcohol, opioids or heroin are well described. The effects of addiction on personality of the addict, his family, social, professional and economic status are covered in detail…………The book should prove useful as an important introduction for the curious reader, family members of addicts, as well as general practitioners in understanding and managing addicts in their care.”
    Dr. B.N.S. Walia, MD, FRCPCH (Lond.) FAMS, Director (Retd.), PGIMER,   Chandigarh
  • “Drug addiction is a complete book covering all its aspects………The write-ups have been contributed by the authors having clinical acumen and practical experience of managing cases of drug addiction…………The abused substances detailed out in the book are nicotine, alcohol,   opioids (top three), cannabis, benzodiazepines, antihistaminics, cocaine etc. The book is meant to be read and understood by medical and paramedical staff i.e. counselors, nursing staff and members of the NGOs involved in the treatment of these cases. The book is strongly recommended for those, who are involved in the care of the drug addicts.”
    Dr. M L Bansal, Current Medical Journal of India Vol XVIII No. 4
  • “Dr. Rajinder Singh’s book Drug Addiction is well researched and reflects his knowledge and expertise in the field of psychiatric and addiction problem in India in general and more specifically in the state of Punjab… This book is so explicit and well documented that it can be used to educate the professionals, students and Non-Governmental Organizations working in this field……..It strongly recommends that detox ought to be done under the vigilance of a medical professionals, trained in addictionologists. ”
    Dr. Satinder Brar, Eternal Voice, Vol.4 No.2

 

  • “The book is a guide for doctors, counselors and social workers engaged in the fight to kill the demon of addiction. Even if an addict patient is motivated to go through this book it can work wonders.………………….Good print, lucidity of language, elegant get up and rich contents make this book highly readable and useful. This book the need of shelves of every library and desk of the doctor, social worker, and counselor.”
    Kartar Singh Goshti, Abstracts of Sikh Studies, Vol XIV, Issue 3

 

  •  “The articles (In this book) have been written by various trained in addiction experts.……..The contents of each and every write-up reveal the hard work, dedication and struggles of the respective authors with the addiction patients. The book aims to provide information regarding all aspects of substance related disorders.”
    Soch Di Shakti (Punjabi Monthly) July 2012
  • “Drug Addiction is a book with a difference. The contributors suggest a simple and pragmatic approach to deal with drug addiction. They are of the opinion that it is the lack of spiritual values in modern life, along with other factors, which is one of the primary causes of drug addiction. In Spiritual Intelligence and Addiction, and Incorporating Spiritual Concepts in Drug Addiction Dr. ( Col.) Rajinder Singh et al, rightly reiterate that spiritual orientation of addicts along with effective medication is vital for drug-management.…………..  It is, perhaps, for this reason that both the English and Punjabi sections of Drug Addiction are followed by compilations of thoughts and ideas from saints, savants, philosophers and enlightened men.………Drug Addiction is, in brief, a thought-provoking book, with an undoubted social significance. It carries an important message, that is, the urgency to control drugs and other addictions with collective efforts from the Government, NGO’s, social activists, religious and educational and charitable trusts.”

            Lakhmir Singh, Eternal Voice Vol. 4 No. 4

 

For any Information Call – Dr. (Col.) Rajinder Singh  – +91 9876712054

To Order the book call  Cheema Sahib, De-Addiction Center at :+91 9872910756. +91 9872910256
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Village Jand Sahib Rural Students’ Uber-Performance in Sikh-Quiz Competition secures 1st place

Known for their brilliance at academics, young students of village Akal Academy Jand Sahib prove their equally brilliant knowledge and understanding of their Sikh-Faith during a recent Sikh-Quiz competition. In total, 175 rural students from Akal Academy, Jand Sahib participated to compete at the Quiz event; all of them being class 5th students. Out of […]

Known for their brilliance at academics, young students of village Akal Academy Jand Sahib prove their equally brilliant knowledge and understanding of their Sikh-Faith during a recent Sikh-Quiz competition.

In total, 175 rural students from Akal Academy, Jand Sahib participated to compete at the Quiz event; all of them being class 5th students. Out of these 175, 40 students secured grades as follows i.e. Grade A-6, Grade B-16, Grade C-13 while 5 received merit positions. The students that received merits are being prepared to participate in the next level of the competition wherein winners will be rewarded with cash prize of Rs 15000, Rs 12000 and Rs 9000 at the top 3 positions.

S.Manmohan Singh, in – charge – Sikh Missionary College Muktsar also visited the Academy for the event, he congratulated the students for their outstanding performance that secured the 1st spot for the Jand Sahib Akal Academy across Muktsar Zone; other guests accompanying him included Ranbir Singh (Headmaster), Mukhdarshan Singh and Roshan Lal, who presented prizes to the students while madam Jaswant Kaur, Principal of the Akal Academy Jand, gave regards to the visiting Guests.

“Events like these, participation and the overwhelming results secured by our students are certainly rewarding to our efforts and the mission of our organization – The Kalgidhar Trust”, cited the Principal while expressing how such events that revolve around Sikhi help in ensuring that the organization’s mission to imbibe unique blend of Worldly & Spiritual education into the rural children of India – is being accomplished in a successful manner.

~ Deeksha Singh
~ New Delhi, 7th Nov ’13

Turbaned Sikhs barred from flying Emirates aircrafts

New Delhi,Nov 4: Sikhs wearing a turban are not allowed to fly aircrafts of Emirates Airlines. A CNN-IBN report says that it has the email exchange between the Sikh pilot and the airlines.

The Sikh pilot has alleged that Emirates Airlines, after shortlisting him for an interview turned him down only because he wears a turban. As a pilot for almost nine years now, and flying more than 5,500 hours in national and international routes,he was shortlisted for an interview with gulf-based Emirates airlines. He was turned down, because he is a turbaned Sikh.

Turbaned Sikhs barred from flying Emirates aircrafts The pilot got to know from friends that there is a company policy against turbaned Sikhs and at first he laughed saying that such a big company would never do that. In the subsequent mails he sent, it was a shocker for him. He was told he need not come as there is a rule being followed and the company is not making any exceptions.

To clear his doubts, he emailed his photograph to the Emirates. With one week before the final round, he was told that wearing the cap is a mandatory part of the uniform, hence he had been disqualified. If they have any policy against turbaned Sikh pilots, they should mention that turbaned Sikhs should not apply, he points out.

He applied, got a call, was about to go and just for his satisfaction wanted to know if there was a bias and to his shock got to know that there was a bias. It is unnecessary and unheard of. If one has the requirements, one should be recruited on merit and not for the religious belief or the way one looks, the pilot said.

Despite repeated attempts by CNN-IBN for an official response, Emirates chose not to respond to this controversial topic. Turbaned Sikh pilots have been flying aircraft across the world. Since the turban is an integral part of the Sikh culture, several airlines have made exception to their uniform rules. The emails, a copy available with CNN-IBN clearly shows how the uniform code of Emirates literally bans Sikhs from working with one of the world’s largest airlines.

Union aviation minister Ajit Singh bent backwards to grant extra seats to Emirates in the Abu Dhabi-India route.

By Ayyappa Prasad (TruthDive)

This Diwali: Bouquets of Trees replaced crackers at village Killi Nihal Singh Wala

Whilst the grown up Gen-Y alongside protagonists and environmentalists were busy customizing their e-campaigns to propagate their “say no to crackers” & “show your love to environment” messages to the world citizens, young rural students of Akal academy Killi Nihal Singh Wala village carried out rallies atypical way, carrying slogans and planting trees through their […]

Whilst the grown up Gen-Y alongside protagonists and environmentalists were busy customizing their e-campaigns to propagate their “say no to crackers” & “show your love to environment” messages to the world citizens, young rural students of Akal academy Killi Nihal Singh Wala village carried out rallies atypical way, carrying slogans and planting trees through their route, all through the previous weeks prior Diwali.

Young kids held slogans promoting idea of planting trees instead of burning crackers this Diwali. They carried demonstrations by planting trees during their stoppages at various places motivating the youth & families of the village to subscribe to the new idea of celebrating the festival of lights.

Much to the success of their devoted efforts, the village alongside areas in vicinity observed brighter, greener and peaceful Diwali celebrations with beautiful lights, diyas, agarbatis and a lot of Green in the surroundings!

It seems that the countryside youth has taken up the task of not just saving, but restoring environment to its pristine state, following the core basics, the raw way!

Bravo Kids, the youth of the cities salutes your true efforts & love towards Mother Earth. Keep Up the good work!

~ Deeksha Singh
~ New Delhi, 6th Nov ’13

Completing 27 Glorious Years of Akal Academies: Taking you to a Journey of Insights…

With Year 2013 end closing in, Akal Academies across the Rural Villages of Northern India will be completing its 27th year of education odyssey, a journey of transformation, and a journey that has only been growing younger, with each rural child coming aboard, moving onto its 28th year in the year 2014. 27 Years old, […]

With Year 2013 end closing in, Akal Academies across the Rural Villages of Northern India will be completing its 27th year of education odyssey, a journey of transformation, and a journey that has only been growing younger, with each rural child coming aboard, moving onto its 28th year in the year 2014.

Completing 27 Glorious Years of Akal Academies: Taking you to a Journey of Insights…27 Years old, 60000+ young rural students, the Akal Academies that started with 5 students in 1986 at Baru Sahib, are now breeding across 6450 villages along Northern Rural belt of India covering 5 states i.e. Himachal Pradesh, Punjab, UP, Haryana & Rajasthan through India’s First knitted web of 129+ Value-Based education system schools for Rural & the under-privileged with a remarkable record growth of 20+ new schools in 2011-13 with each school providing stark facilities, infrastructure & quality of education at par with the city schools.

Up till now, we have been providing you with updates about student performances & events taking place at our Academies and now, over the coming days we will take you to a remarkable insights journey into workings and systems of our Akal Academies – from internal environment, schedules and activities of the school, to the extra-curricular activities undertaken,  strategies being followed, innovations to come, the research and the upcoming endeavors in the pipeline and much more as we go about celebrating 27 years of transformation, success & your benign support.

~ Ramandeep Singh
~ New Delhi, 6th Nov ’13

Exploring Rural Talent: Young Students Reveal their Artistic side during MIME Event

History claims that best of the performing artists have come from the toughest and the nadir of our society. Similar has been our experience during an awkward-for-village-folks sounding “MIME” workshop, organized at village Rataolan’s Akal Academy where young rural students got a chance to portray their artistic side at performance arts.

Young students performing!For those of you new to the concept of “MIME”, it’s a theatrical technique of suggesting action, character, or emotion without words, using only gestures, mimicry, expressions, and movements.
It is one of those types of stage arts, which knows no boundaries or barriers of language, region, culture, ethnicity etc, for it relies totally on human expression, which, by virtue of our existence, is universal.

Akal Academy’s rural young kids whilst exhibiting and explicating the true spirit behind the MIME artistry did great justice to the cult art.

“Alongside our academic efforts at preparing these rural kids to secure mainstream for them, wherein they grow up into competent youth, events like these play a pivotal role in enabling these children to be able to connect universally; it not just gives them knowledge & universal understanding, but also helps imbibe elements of developing into globally adaptive citizens who are able to establish connection with the societies alien to them, by simply learning to express even beyond language barriers, or even words for that matter”, explained Kiranjit Kaur, the Principal of the academy, while expressing her idea upon need for observing workshops so innovative and diverse to our(rural) culture.

– Ramandeep Singh
– New Delhi, 5th Nov’ 13

Rural Youth at Fields – Harvesting Sports with a Golden Foot

Akal Academy – Ratia, recently organized a 2 day Inter-house Sports Competition at the academy playground. Rural village students were seen in great sporting spirit and enthusiasm.

The set of games for girls & boys, included Punjab’s most popular Football and the Volleyball matches, on the other hand, sport activities saw “Throwball” and “Tug of War”, involving some extreme actions and competition.

The sports event, starting as early as 10am on 25th Oct, carried out matches based on knock-out system wherein the participants representing the 4 respective houses i.e. Amul, Atul, Abhay & Ajay house, set out in teams, competing against one another. The day saw some of the most fierce action at the fields including some surprising action portrayed by the girls who threw a great leg at the football and also proved their mettle at the throwball knockouts, which were not an inch less entertaining as the boys’ matches; the long fun-filled day of sporting saw its end only at 3p.m.

Overall, at the end of first day knockouts, on the boy’s side House Ajay & Atul made to the football finals, at Volleyball it was Amul & Atul House who made their way to the finals, while Amul & Ajay house prepared to compete at Tug of War finals. On the Girls side, it’s was Atul Vs Amul in football, Ajay Vs Abhay at Tug of War and Amul vs Ajay at Throwball; for the final playoffs, that were held on 26th Oct.

At the Finale, amongst boys, House Ajay stood 1st in Football while house Amul stole the show with a win at both Volleyball & Tug of War; on the Girls’ side, House Atul won Football, House Ajay the Tug of War while Amul claimed the 1st position at Throw-Ball.

All in all House Amul remained at the scoreboards at 1st spot while House Ajay settled with 2nd position. “Looking at the team spirit and the enthusiasm, I am feeling so very proud of the students who I see are excellent at everything they are doing, be it sports, studies, co curricular activities and what not. We are glad for being a part of the Akal Academy. I congratulate the student teams for winning the event and wish them luck for the future.” said, Mrs. Indu Sharma, Principal – Akal Academy, Ratia.

~ Ramandeep Singh
~ New Delhi, 4th Nov ’13

Kakra Kalan, Akal Academy students exhibit their Debating and News Reading Skills

Akal Academy run by The Kalgidhar Trust, located at village Kakra Kalan recently organized an Inter-house Debate and News Reading Competition amongst young students of class 1st to 4th; an event observed in light of the organization’s view of all-round development of children.

During this inter-house event, class 3rd and 4th students – Sahibjit Singh, Harkirat Singh, Sartaaj Singh and Navjot Kaur gave beautiful and expressive speeches in favor of the motion “Homework assigned by schools” wherein participants Rajvinder Singh, Ranjodh Singh, Sukhram Singh and Ramandeep Kaur presented their strong points against the motion.

Kakra Kalan, Akal Academy students exhibit their Debating and News Reading SkillsAmongst the younger lot, class 1st and 2nd students – little Sukhmandeep Singh, Shubhneet Kaur, Gurnoop Preet Kaur and Komalpreet Kaur put forth their splendid views upon the topic of “Keeping Cleanliness” while young Sukhandeep Kaur, Jasmeet Singh, Shubreet Kaur & Sumanpreet Kaur confidently addressed the audience with their words upon “The importance of taking up good habits” during the Paper Reading Competition.

Amongst the former group, Ramandeep Kaur and Harkirat Singh bagged 1st & 2nd positions respectively in the Debate Competition whereas amongst the latter group, little girls Subhpreet & Komalpreet Kaur swept the boards to take up the 1st & 2nd spot respectively in the Paper Reading competition.

Amongst the 4 houses viz. Amul, Atul, Abhay & Ajay house, house Atul topped the charts to win both the competition titles. The school staff appreciated the confidence and performances of the students.

On the occasion, Principal Kulvinder Kaur encouraged the kids whilst motivating them to take up good habits, keeping cleanliness & doing homework on time. She further said, “At all Akal Academies, special care and focus is put onto developing techniques and finding ways to enhance both mental and physical capabilities among our students. Thus, several kinds of competitions and events are organized to fulfill the purpose.” Such activities, especially in the form of competition, help not only in developing self-confidence but also invoke spirit of healthy competition amongst students, she further added.

~ Deeksha Singh
~ New Delhi, 2nd Nov ’13

Rural Students’ Colorful Diwali Tribute – Beautifully Painted Diyas

With Diwali just few hours away and kids around the nation are in full spirits, planning their own ways of celebrating the festival of lights, we just received our first ‘n’ fresh report, a colorful one in fact, from our even colorful little young children of Akal Academy at village Phaphre Bhai Ke.

Rural Students’ Colorful Diwali Tribute – Beautifully Painted Diyas
Today, in an ongoing exclusive Diwali-Fun-Filled Competition event, being organized at the Academy Campus, little rural artists are Painting Diyas with wonderful colors; some of the kids are decorating Diyas with gold and silver glitter paper – as a special version they plan to gift to their teachers.

The colorful ones would be receiving their spark on the eve of Diwali, as the students with their teacher plan to beautify the campus, aligning these Diyas in several creative patterns and color combinations – as a symbol of oneness in diversity and inter-faith harmony to represent and spread the message of spiritual brotherhood & peace as proclaimed in Sikh-Faith & followed across all 129 Akal Academies.

Similar preparations and celebrations are on their way across all Academies that are spread across 6450 villages on Punjab, Haryana, UP & Rajasthan, where children of all faith learn to come together to make this world a more lovable, peaceful & graceful place for Human Race.

Did you know that 60000+ rural students, studying across all All Akal academies in all villages have favoured to not use any form of crackers this Diwali, but instead celebrate a colorful Diya-Candle lit Diwali this season!

~ Ramandeep Singh
~ New Delhi, 2nd Nov ’13

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Himachal Pradesh honors The Kalgidhar Trust, Baru Sahib for organizing Blood Donation Camps

The Health Ministry of Himachal Pradesh organized an event for honoring ‘Raj Pathar’ Blood-Donation and observed its conclusion ceremony on 31st October 2013 at Gandhi Bhawan, Mandi, Himachal Pradesh.  Narinderpal Singh Cheena, Chief Security Officer, Kalgidhar Trust – Baru Sahib received the honor on behalf of the Trust.

Himachal Pradesh honors The Kalgidhar Trust, Baru Sahib for organizing Blood Donation Camps

The event, headed by S. Thakur Kaul Singh, Health Minister, H.P Government awarded honors to several reputed charitable organizations alongside Kalgidhar Trust including Chitkara, J.P, Nirankari Mission-H.P Red Cross and certain other similar organization that voluntarily organize Blood Donation Camps on regular basis.

During the Honor Ceremony, Minister Thakur Kaul Singh alongside invited guests praised all Blood Donating charitable organizations appreciating their philanthropic work, care and noble service for humanity whilst suggesting and encouraging them to organize such camps in the coming times. They appreciated The Kalgidhar Trust for the Noble cause of organizing the blood donation camps and working for the Rural India.

“It is a matter of great achievement for the efforts being put in to work for Rural Transformation, being recognized by the masses. Such appreciations keep us going! We strive to work for the rural India, to bring a change and secure the Nation for the future generations”, said Mr. Narinderpal Singh Cheena.

~ Ramandeep Singh
~ New Delhi, 2nd Nov ’13