Declare war Ruins as Peace Heritage Sites- Cologne Cathedral

Cologne Cathedral

Cologne Cathedral

Declare War Ruins as Peace Heritage Sites of the World- Garland of Peace!

An idea that can change the world for the better! By Sandeep Silas, https://garlandofpeace.com/

Opportunities: Peace Building, Peace Education, Peace Tourism

Sandeep Silas is a British Chevening Scholar and a Master of Public Administration from the Maxwell School of Syracuse University, USA!

Declare War Ruins as Peace Heritage Sites- Kaiser Wilhelm Church, Germany

Kaiser Wilhelm Church, Germany

Kaiser Wilhelm Church, Berlin

Declare War Ruins as Peace Heritage Sites of the World- Garland of Peace!

An idea that can change the world for the better! By Sandeep Silas, https://garlandofpeace.com/

Opportunities: Peace Building, Peace Education, Peace Tourism

Sandeep Silas is a British Chevening Scholar and a Master of Public Administration from the Maxwell School of Syracuse University, USA!

Declare War Ruins as Peace Heritage Sites- Coventry Cathedral, UK

Coventry Cathedral, UK

Coventry Cathedral, UK

Declare War Ruins as Peace Heritage Sites of the World- Garland of Peace!

 

 

 

An idea that can change the world for the better! By Sandeep Silas, https://garlandofpeace.com/

Opportunities: Peace Building, Peace Education, Peace Tourism

Sandeep Silas is a British Chevening Scholar and a Master of Public Administration from the Maxwell School of Syracuse University, USA!

 

Declare War Ruins as Peace Heritage Sites- Pearl Harbour

Pearl Harbour

Pearl Harbour

Declare War Ruins as Peace Heritage Sites of the World- Garland of Peace!

An idea that can change the world for the better! By Sandeep Silas, https://garlandofpeace.com/

Opportunities: Peace Education, Peace Tourism, Peace Building

Sandeep Silas is a British Chevening Scholar and a Master of Public Administration from the Maxwell School of Syracuse University, USA!

Declare War Ruins as Peace Heritage Sites- Nagasaki

Nagasaki Bombing

Nagasaki Bombing

Declare War Ruins as Peace Heritage Sites of the World- Garland of Peace!

An idea that can change the world for the better! By Sandeep Silas, https://garlandofpeace.com/

Opportunities: Peace Education, Peace Tourism, Peace Building

Sandeep Silas is a British Chevening Scholar and a Master of Public Administration from the Maxwell School of Syracuse University, USA!

 

Declare War Ruins as Peace Heritage Sites- Hiroshima Dome

Hiroshima Dome

Hiroshima Dome

Declare War Ruins as Peace Heritage Sites of the World- Garland of Peace!

An idea that can change the world for the better! By Sandeep Silas, https://garlandofpeace.com/

Opportunities- Peace Education, Peace Tourism, Peace Building

Sandeep Silas is a British Chevening Scholar and a Master of Public Administration from the Maxwell School of Syracuse University, USA!

 

 

 

Declare War Ruins as Peace Heritage Sites- Aushcwitz Concentration Camp, Poland

Aushcwitz Concentration Camp, Poland

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Declare War Ruins as Peace Heritage Sites- Garland of Peace!

An idea that can change the world for the better! By Sandeep Silas, https://garlandofpeace.com/

Opportunities- Peace Education, Peace Tourism, Peace Building

Sandeep Silas is a British Chevening Scholar and a Master of Public Administration from the Maxwell School of Syracuse University, USA!

 

Peace Anthem for the World by Sandeep Silas

Lyrics: Sandeep Silas; Singer: Pawni Pandey

I had been thinking for a long time that our beautiful world does not have a Peace Anthem, which can be universally accepted by the nations of the world and sung in schools and universities.

So I wrote the song, and many thanks to Akshat Pandey, my friend in Mumbai, who recorded it in the voice of his lovely and talented daughter, Pawni Pandey! Thanks Pawni, for making the Peace Anthem idea a possibility for our world and hearts!

Peace is what we want utmost if we have to preserve the human race on the planet!

PEACE ANTHEM

SANDEEP SILAS

There was a time

When the Earth was tranquil

And peace reigned around

Man lived in Eden

And Eve in his heart

Eve in his heart

The serpent of knowledge

Brought untold destruction

Hearts are now divided, homes are aflame

Lines now define frontiers

The fields are red

Are red with blood

See, now the rivers sigh

And the mountains silently cry

The oceans tremble with fear

Music is drowned, by the roar above

And toys have gone for guns

This is my land, those are my men

No one is equal, anymore

Anymore

We have everything

We have nothing

There are tears in every eye

Angels have also become shy

Children don’t play those innocent games

Ivy rushes up walls no more

Strange darkness follows every man

No one to stop and give a hand

Peace does not live in hearts

Not, live in hearts

So think of everyone

As your dear one

Kindle some warmth to last forever

Share the little you have with love

See, tender flowers bring you a promise every season

And the sky still shows a rainbow after the blinding rain

Spring, bursts from the autumns’ yellow

Green is the hand of the gardener

Look at the wonders of this beautiful world

And feel the magic living around you

Living around you

We have everything

We have nothing

There is so much peace hidden in every heart

The world can become one again

Say, that we’ll not live apart

Come let us wish for the healing rain

Turn the wheel as it must

Bring peace to every troubled heart

Peace to every heart

Peace to every heart

We have everything

We have everything

(Written April 9, 2011)

Shooting at Santa Fe School, Texas

When I read the sad reports of shooting by a gun-toting student at Santa Fe High School on May 19th 2018, killing 10 and injuring another 10, my mind revolted at this mindless violence exhibited by a student at his own school. US reports say it is the 22nd US School shooting since the beginning of this year and we are only in May of 2018!

I love watching Cowboy movies since my childhood and thoroughly enjoyed the scenes of horse-riding cowboys, guns strapped to their holsters and the quickness of eye and finger surprising opponents. But, that was Wild West of earlier centuries and even then there was the Sheriff, often at the expense of his own life, enforcing law & order and hanging the bad and ugly!

Come on, Texas people should sit up seriously and analyse what is going wrong with their kids. We cannot blame the violence on the streak of DNA that has travelled in the blood stream from those bygone days. We have to control this freak runaway gene from killing the innocent school children by psychologically unstable gun-men, here in this case a suspect student of the same school, Dimitrios Pagourtzis, 17.

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When I was studying for my Masters of Public Administration in the US, I was advised by the Security Department advisory not to enter some parts of the city and by  a well-wisher, that I should not be at the wrong place at the wrong time. Well, how can you ensure that. Two people of the same Sante Fe School were definitely at the wrong place at the wrong time; a Pakistani exchange student, Sabika Sheikh, who was killed, and , Substitute teacher Cynthia Tisdale who was also killed.

“Another student, Dakota Shrader, told CNN affiliate KPRC that she heard gunshots only after hearing an alarm in the school.”
“I was in the history hallway, and as soon as we heard the alarms, everybody just started leaving following the same procedure as … (a) practice fire drill,” Shrader said, breaking into tears. “And next thing you know, we just hear … three gunshots, loud explosions, and all the teachers are telling us to run.” (Courtesy: https://edition.cnn.com/2018/05/18/us/texas-school-shooting/index.html)
Santa Fe High School junior Guadalupe Sanchez, 16, cries in the arms of her mother, Elida Sanchez, after reuniting with her at a meeting point at a nearby Alamo Gym fitness center following a shooting at Santa Fe High School in Santa Fe, Texas, on Friday, May 18, 2018. (Michael Ciaglo/Houston Chronicle via AP)
Santa Fe High School junior Guadalupe Sanchez, 16, cries in the arms of her mother, Elida Sanchez, after reuniting with her at a meeting point at a nearby Alamo Gym fitness center following a shooting at Santa Fe High School in Santa Fe, Texas, on Friday, May 18, 2018. (Michael Ciaglo/Houston Chronicle via AP)

But, Nature had its surprise as well when a student who survived being shot in the head tweeted: “I’m so grateful and blessed that god spared me today.” Rome Shubert showed, where a bullet went in the back of his head and came out near his left ear. So, God saved him despite being shot.

“Tears of sadness, anger and pain”, are definitely appreciated as a sentiment, but some serious thought deserves to be given by the great American people on the easy availability of firearms in society and their still easier accessibility within at homes by children. I have earlier given a detailed thought in my Blog on the same site to this issue. I think it deserves to be looked at.

Two links are given below:

Shooting at The Strip by Sandeep Silas

Texas: Why Shoot Churchgoers? by Sandeep Silas

Even President Trump is concerned that mass shootings have been “going on too long.”

Trump on Texas school shooting: 'This has been going on too long in our country'

“Unfortunately, I have to begin by expressing our sadness and heartbreak over the deadly shooting at Santa Fe High School in Texas,” Trump said from the East Room of the White House. “This has been going on too long in our country. Too many years. Too many decades now.”
Trump said federal authorities are coordinating with local officials.
“We grieve for the terrible loss of life and send our support to everyone affected by this absolutely horrific attack,” Trump said. “(Courtesy: https://edition.cnn.com/2018/05/18/us/texas-school-shooting/index.html)

 

Books, must return to the children as a habit, who are today overtaken by internet and other social media. During our childhood in India, we had no mobile phones, no internet, no Television, no such thing as alternate social media. Only the radio reached us and delighted us with songs, stories, and informed us wit news. Newspapers, magazines and books were our window to the world.

We saw, travelled, understood different cultures, lived the lives of the characters we found in the books. And our world was peaceful. None of us ever suffered from an impulse of using a gun in school, which if present at home, was a licensed weapon and kept under lock and key, handled only by father during his hunts.

A little amount of control is necessary. I know after a certain age in America the child cannot even be reprimanded by parents, but, gathers life impressions from the world around him or her. Wonderful, but it is like living a little on the edge. I feel that the social impressions, bonds of family and voluntary organisations should be so strongly knit around the children that the basic core values of every American child drive him or her towards peace and camaraderie. Guns are neither playthings nor the solution to any problem, personal or societal,  otherwise we would have decimated our own people very fast in every country.

Anywhere a child dies, humanity dies a hundred deaths!

Let us work for bringing more peace within us!

6th Ibadat-e-Aman, peace bridge of music, 2018 (Video Recording)

6th IBADAT-E-AMAN 2018, a peace bridge of music initiative between cultures and communities, was organized for the sixth time at the Stein Auditorium, India Habitat Center, New Delhi, on Friday, February 9, 2018 by St. Stephen’s Society, Agra.

Sandeep Silas, the noted bilingual poet, recited soulful poetry in English to enthrall the audience.

The renowned Chandana Dancers Guild from Sri Lanka, kept the house-full audience spell bound by the magic they weaved in their six acts of dance-drama on themes such as: Beri Vrundha, Nagar Raksha, Wonder of Sri Lanka, Heritage of Sri Lanka, Ridmanjali, Rupat Nari, Prem Puja, Manthra, Thandava Nritya, Abishek and Thelme.