Environment protection/issues, humanitarian aid

You have probably been touched by the recent and amazing movie of James Cameron: Avatar. This cinema masterpiece, showing an idealistic planet where creatures live in peace and harmony, can also be regarded as a (continue reading…)

Doing Time, Doing Vipassana is a poignant documentary showing how Vipassana, an ancestral hindu meditation technic rediscovered by Gotama Budhha 2,500 years ago, has been used in Indian jails as a way to improve the prison atmosphere, prepare inmates for their reintegration to the outter social environment and help to reduce recidivism rate. Beyond the rehabilitation aspect, it has completly changed the life of many criminals and deliquents and it demonstrates that a soft guided introspective is more effecient than harsh inhuman methods.

The documentary is based upon the experiment led in 1993 by Kiran Bedi, a new Inspector General of Indian prisons, who was trying to reform the Indian penal system. She requested that a vipassana course be conducted in the largest prison in India, Tihar Jail outside of (continue reading…)

When nature goes out of control….

This photograph set was taken during a walk in the Bazaar of hampi, a main street where locals live and sell plenty of different kind of items to tourists. The Bazaar is also the gate to most of the Vijayanagar ruins. These pictures show some stolen moments in the daily life of the people living in this animated area of the village.

Hampi is well known for being the medieval capital of the Hindu empire Vijayanagara (which means “the City of Victory”). Hampi is listed as one of the UNESCO World Heritage Sites.

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We are soon to celebrate a grievous anniversary. In Bhopal, on the 3 of december 1984,that is to say almost 25 years ago, occured the most important industrial catastrophe the world went through. A Union Carbide (former name of Dow) factory spread 40 tons of (continue reading…)