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	Rediff On The NeT, Freedom: An interview with Baba Amte
		urlidhar Devidas Amte was born on December 24, 1914 in Hingaighat, Wardha.
		Belonging to a family of brahmin jagirdars, regardless of his parents's disapproval, Baba Amte often ate with servants and played with lower caste children.
		Baba Amte also launched two Bharat Jodo -- Knit India -- Movements from Kashmir to Kanyakumari in 1985 and Assam and Gujarat in 1988.
	www.rediff.com /freedom/amte3.htm (448 words)

	Rediff On The NeT, Freedom: An interview with Baba Amte
		Baba Amte is a legend in a self-centred nation.
		Two years back, the river nearly did that: Baba Amte and his wife were forcefully evacuated by the police in a canoe and confined to the Barwani circuit house for two days.
		A non believer in idol worship, Baba Amte's logic is that ''it makes her happy.'' He rarely misses an opportunity in acknowledging her contribution to his work.
	www.rediff.com /freedom/amte1.htm (2132 words)

	BABA AMTE'S VANAPRASTHA
		At the same time, Baba enjoyed the privileges and carefree life of a wealthy young man. Since his father was an officer in the government's finance department, the family lived in Nagpur for many years before shifting to the nearby town of Warora.
		Baba realized that it was no small privilege to be living in the 'company of two universal souls that inhabited Shantiniketan and Sewagram'.
		Baba noticed that amid the wedding festivities of her elder sister, Indu had quietly slipped away to help an old servant woman who was washing clothes.
	www.narmada.org /AMTE/vanaprastha1.html (2502 words)

	Wisdom Song: The Life of Baba Amte: May 2006 \| Design & People
		Born into privilege and wealth, Baba Amte was a maverick who wanted to live life to the fullest.
		He realised early on that he had to live, not for himself, but for others - or else all the privilege, position and superior personal qualities would be mere tinsel.
		The pioneering commune at 'Anandwan' (Baba often calls Anandwan his social service laboratory) where those affected by leprosy could live with dignity and pride; unity marches across India; Narmada solidarity vigil against the state-sponsored devastation - Baba did this and much more.
	www.designandpeople.org /downloads/baba_amte_april_2006-e.html (246 words)

	India Together: Book Review: Baba Amte's life of conviction - 24 October 2006
		In the process of reconstructing Amte's life, Mirchandani's narrative is enlivened by the reminiscences of his family and co-workers, who carry his work forward.
		Devram Kanera, from a village to be submerged in the Narmada Valley, elaborates that only when Amte came to the region did people begin to understand the broader canvas of their struggle and its motives.
		While her broad sympathy to Amte's cause is well-placed, the author fails to maintain a critical distance, which would have made the biography more well-rounded.
	www.indiatogether.org /2006/oct/rvw-babaamte.htm (1081 words)

	Baba Amte in India (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Baba Amte, (Muralidhar Devdas Amte) is one of India’s greatest humanitarians and social workers.
		Baba Amte has served leprosy patients and the physically handicapped, since 1949, for which he has got the Damien-Dutton Award, U S A 1983 (highest international award in the field of leprosy).
		Baba Amte has started many social service organizations including the Maharogi Seva Samiti, and 'Anandawan' an organization based in Nagpur, Maharashtra, which gives a self sustained decent living to more than 3000 leprosy patients.
	www.india9.com /i9show/Baba-Amte-61085.htm (194 words)

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		Baba Amte watches the show while reclining on his bed (as he can't sit due to a debilitating spinal ailment, which has been troubling him since the last three decades).
		Baba is more than overwhelmed with the Tibetan leader's concern for his health — the latter actually sent his personal physician all the way from Dharamsala to Anandwan earlier in the year.
		Baba tells the Dalai Lama that this is what the memorial whispers to him, and this is what he has shared with many people, including the likes of the late Prime Minister Indira Gandhi.
	www.tibet.com /NewsRoom/babaamte.htm (1142 words)

	Dr. Schweitzer's Hospital Fund (UK) - Anandwan
		It has been said of Baba Amte that he is 'a true Indian Albert Schweitzer', for he gave up his titles of Lawyer and Mayor the day he came face to face with a leper in agony on the roadside.
		Baba Amte, now in his eighties, has passed the management of the whole enterprise to his two sons, who are both doctors, are both married to doctors and whose children are studying medicine; and all operate under the umbrella of the MSS Trust.
		Baba Amte himself has for the last decade been engaged in fighting the cause of tribal communities who are threatened by large internationally financed dams, which are designed to flood their habitats.
	www.schweitzershospitalfund.org.uk /anandwan.html (821 words)

	BABA AMTE : Encyclopedia Entry
		Murlidhar Devidas Amte (Marathi:बाबा आमटे) (born December 24, 1914), or Baba Amte, as he is fondly known, was born in Hinganghat located in Wardha District of Maharashtra state of India.
		Baba Amte also launched the Bharat Jodo (Unite India) movements from Kanyakumari to Kashmir in 1985 and Gujarat to Arunachal Pradesh in 1988, with the mission of establishing peace and raising environmental consciousness.
		In 1990, Baba Amte left Anandwan to live along the Narmada river to fight against social injustice to local inhabitants.
	www.bibleocean.com /OmniDefinition/Baba_Amte (327 words)

	The Sunday Tribune - Books
		But so fascinated was Mirchandani by Baba’s persona and his work that she made it a point to visit him each time she came to India from the US where she lives.
		Baba gravitates towards the un-people—the destitute, the forgotten and the silenced.
		Baba’s national integration campaigns—Bharat Jodo—in 1985 and 1987 did help rekindle the spirit of communal harmony, but he was not allowed to go to Pakistan as he refused to accept elaborate military protection for himself.
	www.tribuneindia.com /2006/20060618/spectrum/book6.htm (908 words)

	Adhyapak.com: Baba Amte
		Murlidhar Devidas Amte (born December 24, 1914), or Baba Amte, as he is fondly known, was born in Hinganghat located in Wardha District of Maharashtra state of India.
		One of India's most revered social and moral leaders, Baba Amte has devoted his life to the care and rehabilitation of leprosy patients, even allowing his body to be used for experiments to grow leprosy germs.
		Baba Amte also launched the Bharat Jodo (Unite India) movements from Kanyakumari to Kashmir in 1985 and Gujarat to Arunachal Pradesh in 1988, with the mission of establishing peace and raising environmental consciousness.
	www.adhyapak.com /dadima/baba_amte.html (319 words)

	Features- The man who tasted humanity
		Baba Amte, a great son of India who was born on the December 26, 1914 in Wardha district of Maharashtra attained eighty-eight years of age a few days ago.
		After serving with the most neglected and discarded section of human beings, Baba Amte launched two marches called the Knit India Cycle March from Kanyakumari to Kashmir (1984) and from Arunachal Pradesh to Gujarat (1988) carrying the message of peace and harmony, leading a couple of hundred youths, both girls and boys.
		Baba Amte is a source of great inspiration and admiration to many.
	www.manipuronline.com /Features/Dec2001/babaamte27.htm (1168 words)

	1985 Ramon Magsaysay Awardee for Public Service - Murlidhar Devidas Amte
		AMTE was born on December 26, 1914 in British India at Hinganghat, Wardha District in the present-day state of Maharashtra.
		AMTE next organized a scavengers' (night soil collectors) union, but when they struck for higher wages while he was still vice chairman of the municipality, he refused their demands because the town lacked funds.
		AMTE's dream of a workers' university ended with the loss of the irrigated land: there was not enough land left for each potential worker student to cultivate as part of his training.
	www.rmaf.org.ph /Awardees/Biography/BiographyAmteMur.htm (6533 words)

	The Sunday Tribune - Books
		She read how a chance encounter with a maggot-infested leper had turned around the life of Baba Amte, who until such time, was a young man given to the niceties of life, including fast cars and smoking.
		Baba Amte, now 90 and suffering from a damaged spine and having two pacemakers, is a picture of courage and fortitude.
		Baba’s sons and daughters-in-law, all doctors, are also involved with Anandwan, which became self-sufficient within two years of its existence and now boasts of Shirdi Sai Baba Hospital, a college of arts, an agricultural college, a school, an auditorium and an udhyog bhavan among other facilities.
	www.tribuneindia.com /2005/20050710/spectrum/book6.htm (495 words)

	SPJIMR - SP Jain Institute of Management & Research, Mumbai (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Baba Amte's association with the social cause began with the stirring sight of Tulshiram, a man dying of leprosy, which changed his life forever.
		For the first time in the history of Baba Amte's Ashram, students of a management school visited and stayed at Anandvan, with the objective to develop social consciousness and study the relevance of management in social work.
		Baba's legacy lives on through the tireless work of family, comprising of his two amazing sons and their wives, who in their own ways have contributed significantly to furthering Baba's vision.
	www.spjimr.org /newsletters_articles/baba_amte.asp (511 words)

	Press Information Bureau
		Baba Amte adopted this line when he established educational institutions in order to prepare the youth along these ideals for restructuring society.
		Baba Amte in the `Knit India` movement that he launched to bring all India together from East to West, from North to South, was trying to unite the country by removing all distinctions of caste and creed and cleansing it of all social ills.
		Baba Amte has said: `Now that the sun of life is about to set, I have set out to catch the rising sun of environmental consciousness`.
	pib.myiris.com /speech/article.php3?fl=010519181856 (1194 words)

	The Hindu : New Delhi News : Paulos Award for Baba Amte
		As Dr. Amte was unable to attend the award ceremony due to his ill health, his elder son, Vikas Amte, who has been assisting him in his social work and other projects, received the award from the Vice-President, Bhairon Singh Shekhawat.
		Amte was given the award for his "seminal contributions in the field of creative compassion".
		Amte was a shining example of Gandhian movement whose social concerns were unparalleled.
	www.hindu.com /2005/02/28/stories/2005022812500300.htm (463 words)

	The Miracle Worker BABA AMTE
		Murlidhar Devidas Amte was born on December 24, 1914 in Hingaighat, Wardha.
		Early on, Baba Amte recognized the inter-dependence of human beings with each other, and the natural world, and that embodies the spirit of Anandwan.
		Amte is currently interested in partnering with other people involved with natural building or scientists in the field willing to document his invention.
	chanda.nic.in /htmldocs/anandwan.html (4782 words)

	IHCenter/NIYA
		With in-depth conversations with Baba, and interviews with many of his close friends and family, this is equally a record of the collective memory of those who have known him best.
		Baba founded MSS in 1949 in Warora and this multi-faceted organization is still flourishing in the heartland of India serving the educational, healthcare and social needs of millions.
		Established in 1949 in post-colonial India, MSS is the face of the loneliest, the lost, the last, and the least of India's one billion people.
	www.ihcenter.org /groups/NIYA.html (622 words)

	Wisdom Song: About Baba
		Born in December 1914 to wealthy high-caste Brahmin parents in a village in Central India, Murlidhar Devidas Amte is known to millions of Indians as Baba Amte - "Father" Amte.
		Like Gandhi, Baba Amte trained as a lawyer and was involved in the Indian freedom struggle against the British empire.
		Baba Amte's story is a fascinating one -- one man's colourful odyssey to conquer his own fears and expand the notion of justice and peace through innovative experiments.
	baba.niya.org /index.php?page=about_baba (178 words)

	The Hindu : National : Paulos Mar Gregarios Award for Baba Amte
		The focus of such a society needed to be centred on establishing an inter-faith dialogue between various communities with the larger motive of serving the poor and the deprived.
		The Vice-President called upon the country to replicate Baba Amte's efforts in alleviating the sufferings of the leprosy patients.
		Baba Amte's efforts for establishing an Anandvan to reduce the sufferings of leprosy patients made the ailment fall out of the bracket of communicable disease, he said.
	www.hindu.com /2005/02/28/stories/2005022810771200.htm (417 words)

	Baba Amte
		Born 71 years ago into a wealthy high-caste family in Maharashtra State and educated to be a lawyer, AMTE from childhood rebelled against the social discrimination accepted by his privileged peers.
		Last year he led, at a mass rally and by personal appeal to the prime minister, in gaining postponement and ret consideration of government plans for two major dams in the tribal heartland which would have flooded over 75,000 homes and thousands of hectares of prime forest.
		BABA (father) AMTE, as he is affectionately called by the throng he has helped, is himself painfully crippled with a degenerative disease of the spine.
	www.indianngos.com /people/babaamte.htm (719 words)

	ProPoor: Serving South Asia
		It took six months for Amte to dig a well in the barren land and within a year, sixty deprived people had joined him to form a community.
		For twelve long years Baba Amte has been a support to hundreds of villagers of Gujarat, Maharastra and Madhya Pradesh who have been victimised due to the construction of a dam.
		Today, at eighty nine, Baba Amte feels that its not money but love and compassion that is all needed to change the world into a 'happy community'.
	www.propoor.org /?pg=stories&id=18 (1902 words)

	CMM Level 5 and P-CMM Level 3 company - Lead story
		Baba Amte has spent much of his life in the rehabilitation and care of leprosy patients at his Anandwan ashram in one of the poorest tribal areas in Maharashtra.
		His younger son, Dr Prakash Amte and his wife Dr Mandatai Amte, continued in Baba Amte’s footsteps and today treat more than 40,000 tribal patients a year at their hospital in Hemalkasa in the Gadchiroli district of Maharashtra.
		Dr Prakash and Dr Mandatai Amte were given The Spirit of Mastek Award for their great work in the uplift of the poor, needy and socially deprived at a function held in Mumbai recently.
	www.mastek.com /content/mastekspirit/details_drprakashamte.asp (751 words)

	Your True Hero - View Hero (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Baba Amte’s tryst with the sorrow, pain and diseases began in the tiny village of Warora,in Central India.
		Baba believes that the spirit of Christianity is not to impose some kind of creed but to share a life.
		Baba is a literary genius and has authored many books and have aroused the hidden desires within the youth through his remarkable style of poems.
	www.yourtruehero.org /content/hero/view_hero.asp?34303 (873 words)

	Friends of Anandwan
		We are a group of volunteers inspired by Baba Amte and his followers' exemplary work in various parts of India over the past five decades.
		Our mission is to spread the message of Baba Amte's work to the wide world, promote activities similar to those exemplified by his at Maharogi Sewa Samiti, Lok Biradari Prakalp and other areas, and also raise funds to support the work.
		To learn more about Baba Amte, his followers, their work with the underprivileged and his experiments in social living, here are a few links.
	wuche.che.wustl.edu /~shunt/foa (294 words)

	Hinduism Today \| Jul 1990
		Baba cited the important principles of nishkama karma yoga - service without expectation of reward and loka sangrahya - the unity and Upliftment of the world.
		Amte has, in fact, relocated himself to an area of Narmada River valley which will be flooded by the new dams.
		Amte's co-winner, Dr. Charles Birch, 71, of Australia, is equally a religious man, maintaining that the interrelationship of nature, humanity and God finds support in physics.
	www.hinduismtoday.com /archives/1990/07/1990-07-01.shtml (1194 words)

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