"Walk away from any road in India for a day or so, and you will find people who are still untouched by Western values. People who seem to love life; who still have the humanity to welcome strangers; who still have time to smile.
"Treasuring the Girlchild". In India girls are made to work much harder than their brothers: cleaning, cooking, minding the younger kids, fetching firewood and water...They are fed less and educated less, married off earlier and face much higher risk of being aborted as a fetus. Let's have a future with smiling girls.
The tigers of Bandhavgarh National Park, India, hunting, swimming,playing. A century ago there were an estimated 40,000 tigers in India. Today there are less than 2000 left. Camera by Vijendra Patil, music and production by Chinmaya Dunster.
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Audio clips from my new compilation CD 'Land of the Buddhas' (New Earth Records), illustrated with beautiful footage I have taken all over India -birds from my porch in Goa, wild tribal dances from Central India, smiling children, full moon in the high Himalayas.....
An internationally recognised composer and record producer (20 Cds released over the past seventeen years - see I am also a committed environmentalist. My aim now is to combine the two, using music to spread awareness about our misuse of this fragile planet. But I don't want to join in the doom and gloom! Each of us CAN make a difference by changing our mindsets, and to me this starts by allowing ourselves to be touched by the beauty of both music and nature. It's impossible to abuse something you love deeply!
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Chinmaya Dunster's film 'Concert for India's Environment' was shown at
The IUCN World Conservation Congress
Barcelona, 5-14 October 2008
"More than 8,000 of the world’s leading decision makers in sustainable development: from governments, NGOs, business, the UN and academia. Together in one place for 10 days: to debate, share, network, learn, commit, vote and decide. The objective: ideas, action and solutions for a diverse and sustainable world."
The film was shown under the Congress theme 'Safeguarding the Diversity of Life'.
The music from the film is released by NER as the live CD 'Fragrance of the East' by Chinmaya Dunster and the Celtic Ragas Band. The CD includes 14 minutes of video highlights from the film.
Environmentally concerned schoolchildren join the internationally celebrated 'Chinmaya Dunster and the Celtic Ragas Band', to read their poems about nature at this 'CONCERT FOR INDIA'S ENVIRONMENT'in Pune, India.
CONCERT FOR INDIA'S ENVIRONMENT - PART 1 'A SENSE OF WONDER'
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The concert continues with a look at the tradition of preserving forest patches as sacred to local deities. As these traditions begin to disappear, the next generation will have to find other means of saving forests. Tamil singer Shruti Banu joins the band to sing a song about the monsoon.
CONCERT FOR INDIA'S ENVIRONMENT - PART 2 SACRED GROVES
Straddling the equator and bordering the International Date Line to the east, the people of the Republic of Kiribati will start ~ Wave 11:11~ and it will be passed around the planet until the final destination of the Republic of Marshall Islands, and the full day of vibrational wave energy flow will be completed.
November 11th @ 11:11 am (your local time) for one hour then pass on to next time zone
We unite again in song, prayer & meditation to heal the planet... as we set the intentional focus on unconditional love.
We are one humanity on earth and All share in the bond of love
All life is symbiotic energy We are all in this together
Hi! :-) Thank you for your music and for adding to your friends list! I wish you to turn your attention to my album "The Melody of Baikal" New Age music for relaxation and meditation made in Siberia http://www.lastfm.com/music/Amagio/+albums
Smile and the world will smile back at you. May your tears only be full of joyful reflection this week. Know in your deepest core that you are loved by the universe completely.
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