Articles about AID?s work

Media Articles about AID

1. "...decide to try the last address... AID India. How I wish I had gone there first ... AID is providing relief to the very remote coastal villages that few have reached ." - Manjeet Kriplani, chief of Business Week's India Bureau. www.aidindia.org/updates/KripalaniBW.html

2. "Serving the nation Cometh the hour, cometh the man. U.S.-educated engineers like Balaji Sampath, and their calling in development work in their homeland." - Sudhish Kamath, The Hindu. http://www.hindu.com/edu/2005/01/03/stories/2005010300301100.htm

3. The Real Swadesis ARAVINDA & RAVI went back from the US to work in the rural interiors of India, and were the inspiration behind Ashutosh Gowariker?s ?Swades?. A chat with the tireless twosome- the real Mohan Bhargavs. http://www.nripulse.com/profile_RaviAravinda.htm

4. Are NRIs Non-Returning Indians? - Chidanand Rajghatta, Times of India "Swades is inspired in part by a Maryland-based Association of India's Development (AID) effort that saw two of their 'jeevansaathis' - Aravinda Pillalamarri and Ravi Kuchimanchi... work on micro-hydel project in Bilgaon. Director Ashutosh Gowariker visited their project and acknowledges them in the credits." http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/articleshow/msid-963944,prtpage-1.cms

5. And now, a wave of compassion... "Students, lawyers, doctors, slum-dwellers, IT professionals... help is pouring in from all quarters for post-tsunami relief works" - Shonali Muthalay, The Hindu. http://www.hindu.com/mp/2005/01/06/stories/2005010600990100.htm

6. Focus on rehabilitation: NGOs - R.K.Radhakrishnan, The Hindu, on meeting between Relief Commissioner and key NGOs. "The organisations that participated in the meeting organised by the Bhoomika Trust include Christian Counselling Centre, Vellore; Abhiyan/KVMS from Gujarat; NIMHANS from Bangalore; IIT-Madras; Indians for Collective Action, U.S.A.; Association for India's Development, U.S.A.; The Banyan, SMILE and Samanvaya, all based in Chennai, Action Aid, People's Watch and SIFFS Tamil Nadu Fishermen's Society." http://www.thehindu.com/2005/01/03/stories/2005010310240500.htm

Articles and Reports by AID volunteers

1. "...enormity of the problem is so much that one must try and work with every sincere group that is doing work on the field... What matters now is reaching relief and rehabilitation to all those who need it. " - Dr. Balaji Sampath, coordinator AID-Chennai. http://www.aidindia.org/updates/6.htm