Exercising good taste at the Commonwealth Games…finally! Great to hear that Indian Ocean will be playing at the Commonwealth 2010 games being hosted in New Delhi!

Only after they’re playing in Toronto on September 11th! Got your tickets yet?

The Toronto Environmental Alliance is supporting Yeh Hai Life’s benefit concert for AidIndia. We are humbled and honored by their support. We couldn’t have found a more fitting partner for what we are trying to do.

‘We’re all in it together’ as they say. The Toronto Environmental Alliance campaigns passionately for a “green, healthy and equitable city with economic activity that sustains our environment.” Their success in Toronto crosses over the human made boundaries into where we live in the US.

And what we do here in the US helps a farmer all the way out in India.

Small steps, small gesture, by hundreds and thousands of us around the world add up to ONE BIG DIFFERENCE!

See you at the concert September 11th! Gaze on over to your right and buy your tickets to one amazing show.

The heading will tell you why the blogging is lagging!

We’re burning up the phone lines, talking to every association in Toronto trying to pull off this event…India’s greatest rock band in a benefit for India’s farmers!

If you stop by and read this…please, please get the word out to your peeps in Toronto!

Why we’re doing this concert: more than 200,000 farmers have committed suicide in India in the past 9 years. Even today this crisis continues, as farmers remain devastated by droughts, floods and predatory loan sharks in India’s suicide belt.

The proceeds of this concert will go to AidIndia, an organization that works with these farmers’ families to find sustainable agriculture solutions. They have thousands of volunteers from the US and India who spend time with the farmers in their villages for months training and working with them on new farming solutions. We are supporting AidIndia with this concert because of their transparency in how they work and the measurable results their projects yield.

And AidIndia is a 4-star rated charity…so you (and us) can’t go wrong!

Date/Time: September 11, 2010 at 8:00pm

Location: MacMillan Theatre, University of Toronto, Faculty of Music (north), Edward Johnson Building, 80 Queen’s Park, Toronto, ON M5S 2C5

For More info: 877-945-7177

Ticket prices: $35, $45, $50 & $75

Tickets available at http://www.yehhailife.com

Dear YHL readers,
Please help spread the word of this amazing event to benefit AidIndia’s Projects working with families and farms of farmers who have committed suicide.

Together we can make a difference, and we need your help.

Peepli [LIVE] to Toronto Live!, INDIAN OCEAN rocks for hope on Sept 11, 2010 from Yeh Hai Life on Vimeo.

According to Mark Juddery, an Australian writer and journalist, who offers this explanation for trashing Gandhi:

But the Indian independence movement was a strong force well before Gandhi entered the scene. The nation’s freedom would have happened within a few years of 1947 even if Gandhi had spent his life meditating in a cave. He was a figurehead for the cause, while various other leaders were doing most of the work (and if you say “I’ve never heard of anyone else,” I won’t be remotely surprised). In true Thomas Edison fashion, he was happy to take the credit.

By his twisted logic pretty much every public figure in any arena is overrated. And just because Mr. Juddery doesn’t know of other Indian freedom fighters doesn’t mean that millions of Indians are as stunningly ignorant in believing that Gandhi was solely responsible for India’s freedom.

“Opinions are like arseholes, everyone has one,” is one of our favorite quotes. Mr. Juddery’s just happens to be an especially uninformed and attention seeking one with a book to plug.

Read more about Gandhi’s choice of making salt his campaign symbol in the historic Dandi march at the Hindu.