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A visit to Parivaar ashram

  3-4 years ago, in one conference, an introduction to ‘Parivaar’ was given and few pamphlets distributed about the same. Out of much information shared during the event, I found this one appealing. I went home and checked the website "http://www.parivaar.org" and also corresponded with the incubator Mr. Vinayak Lohani on email. I could clearly visualize some great work happening and asked him if he had any plans of starting something similar near Bangalore and hiring people? :) An obvious not immediately, after that Parivaar was not in my day to day list but in my mind, I wished to visit the place someday. Few, months back when I knew I would be going to Kolkata, Parivaar was among the first 3 things that came into my mind, along with Mother Teresa’s ashram and Belur math. Finally, today I was able to make this long pending wish come true. I reached the place around 2 hours later than planned and during this period was made comfortable by multiple calls of Mr. Nimai S...