Healing programme
Prasanna Trust is organising a two-day programme on healing through mantra yoga covering topics on enhancing health, managing stress, handling hurt, and anger, among others on October 6 and 7 at IVR Prime, No 438, II Floor, 18th Main, 6th Block, Koramangala and No 17, 17th Cross, 13th Main, Malleswaram. For the details contact: 41535832-35, 9845021363, 9845042053

Durga puja
A Durga puja is being organised by young professionals from October 16 to 21 at Sai Baba Mandir, HMT Layout, Anand Nagar this year. The aim is to contribute to the society especially to the underprivileged people in their vicinity. For details call: contact: 9342535745/ 9343759415.

Peace, value education
Messengers of Peace and Harmony, Benedictine Inter-religious Federtion, St Mark’s Cathedral, Indian co-existence Initiative and Bangalore YMCA organised a peace and value education seminar for three day recently on the theme: ‘A Gurukul in a Techno Society : A Transformatory Journey’ at Asirvanam, Kumbalgod.

The event was inaugurated by J Alexander, National President of the YMCAs of India. He released a booklet titled: ‘Stop the Cultural Virus: Peace Engineers in Action” compiled for the seminar on the theme by Rev Dr Thomas Ninan, Director of India Co-existence Initiative.A group of 50 teachers and 6 post-graduate students took time to talk about communal violence, personal peace, caste, race, nationalism and the nuclear deal in order to make a commitment to be channels of peace in society.