News Snippets from India

The New Delhi Municipal Corporation has set up a herbal garden especially meant for the visually challenged, where one can smell and feel one’s way through. What a treat for the senses. Click here to read more: herbal park for visually challenged

The ancient town of Shravasti in Uttar Pradesh, India was where Buddha spent 24 years in meditation. It was brought back on the map by a Buddhist monk Dr Sitthipal, who laid the foundations for a mediation centre here in 1996. She and other followers built it brick by brick, and now it’s the site of an enormous Non-formal Learning and Meditation Centre. To read the article see At Peace with Buddha