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Posting on behalf of Jayant.
My name is Jayant Bhopatkar. I am a resident of Seattle, WA. I am writing to
you to request you to please include a link on your web-site to Dipti Jadhav
Patil's web-site that we have created. Dipti met with an accident on Nov.
10th and is on a long road to recovery. She is however faced with numerous
financial difficulties to cover her therapies, surgeries, and other medical
expenses. Please read all about it at http://www.geocities.com/dpatil_2000.
Also, this the link that I would like for you to include on your site, if
possible.
You can call/write any one of the contacts listed on the website and copied
herein for more details. Your help in this matter is earnestly solicited and
appreciated. We have also setup this email address on behalf of Dipti.
Please let us know about the progress of this request. Thanking you in
advance.
Sincerely,
-- Jayant.
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Received from : cozucare, http://www.cozucare.org
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An Urgent Appeal
Door Step has started a School-on-Wheels in Pune. This venture was inaugurated by Mr.Tim Solso, CEO & Chairman of Cummins Inc,USA on February 7, 2001.
In his inaugural address, Mr. Solso has thrown Door Step School a challenge.
He has offered to match every dollar (or its rupee equivalent) collected by Door Step School in one month with $ 2 from the Cummins Foundation USA. The target he has set before us is $5,000. He started the ball rolling for Door Step School by immediately giving $100 as his personal contribution.
Doorstep now turns to their well-wishers and supporters to help them meet this challenge. In case, it is not possible for your contribution to reach them within the month, do send them a letter of commitment. We are sure that you will help them take advantage of this rare and most generous offer.
It may make a difference between dependence & self dependence for Door Step School.
Coordinator
cozUcare
You can make a Difference
For further details Contact:
Bina Sheth Lashkari, Director
Rajani Paranjpe, President & Founder Member
Visit them at
http://www.cozucare.org/ngos/doorstepschool
or
Email: doorstep@vsnl.com
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received from North South Foundation, Boston Chapter
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NORTH SOUTH FOUNDATION
Walk-Bike-a-thon/Picnic - fundraiser to help
EDUCATE INDIA
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$150 helps one Needy but Meritorious student attend college for one year.
Scholarships are awarded to college-bound, top ranking students in India
from families with less than Rs 15,000 ($330) in annual income, regardless
of gender, religion, caste, or geographic origin and coves 50% of tuition
expenses
WHAT CAN YOU DO
Participate in the NSF Annual Walk-bike-a-thon/Picnic 2002 and donate/raise
funds for these scholarships. If you cannot participate consider making a
donation
WHEN & WHERE
June 23rd, 2002, SUNDAY 11AM to 4 PM
Hopkinton State Park, Hopkinton, MA
VISIT US
www.northsouth.org
The North South Foundation (NSF) was established in 1989 as a non-profit and
tax-exempt entity to award scholarships to exceptionally qualified needy
students in India entering colleges regardless of religion, •••, caste or
geographic origin. In addition, NSF organizes activities for children of
South Asian origin living in the USA such as spelling and vocabulary
contests.
contact
Madavi and Gaugarin Oliver (978) 486-0686
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I take this opportunity to introduce Mrs. Anjali Kirtane as a
creative writer, reseracher and a film maker. A few years back, she
had made a short film based on the life of Anandibai Joshi, who was
the first Indian woman doctor.Later Mrs. Kirtane authored Anandibai's
biography as well. Anandibai had been to USA to study medicine in the
19th century, when even basic education was denied to women in India
and going abroad was thought to be a great sin. But Anandibai fought
against all odds with unmatched courage. Both the film and the
biography are the products of Mrs.Kirtane's research in India and
USA. They have been critically acclaimed and have won many
prestigious awards as well.
Currently she is working on a docudrama based on the life and work of
the eminent marathi author Durgabai Bhagwat
Durgabai . 'Rituchakra','Vyasaparva','Ruparanga','Lahani','Mukta','Pra
sangik' and 'Pais' are some of her well-known works. She was a
profound scholar and was deeply interested in the study of epics,
mythology, ethnology, religion,philosophy,anthropology and
literature.Durgabai was an excellent linguist who was fluent in
Sanskrit,French,German,English,Bengali,Gujarati,Kannada,Marathi and
Hindi.She had studied Pali to understand the Buddhist literature in
its original form and translated the 'Jataka-kathas'into Marathi.By
translating folk taled from various languages, she enriched the
Marathi literature.
In 1975, Mrs.Indira Gandhi imposed 'Emergency Rule' and supressed the
fundamental rights of the citizens.Durgabai was the only Marathi
author to have stood against this dictatorship and vehemently faught
for reinstatement of the Democratic rule.She was sentenced to an
imprisonment of 18 months. She refused to bow to any kind of pressure
and stood by her principles and values all her life.
Mrs. Kirtane wishes to recapture this legendary writer on celluloid.
The duration of the film would be about 60 mins. and the estimated
cost is ca. Rs. 9 lacs. A portion of this film has already been shot
last year with Durgabai ,Vikram Gokhale,Padmaja Phenani-
Jogalekar,Dilip Prabhavalkar and Pratibha Ranade.
Durgabai was strictly against accepting monetory help from the
Government. She always held that artists should not accept grants or
awards from the Government so that they are under no Governmental
obligations.She maintained that artists'freedom was valuable which
should not be lost at any cost.She herself never accepted any award
except the Sahitya Academy Award which was awarded to her before the
Emergency and a few Lifetime Achievements Awards confered upon her by
Literary groups and NGOs working abroad.
Since we are of the same opinion,we had promised Durgabai that we
would never accpet any kind of help from the Government for the
completion of this film. Therefore we appeal to the culturally aware
organizations and citizens for the financial assistance. Even a Re.1
contributed towards this cause will help keeping Durgabai's memories
alive. We sincerely feel that Durgabai's life will inspire
generations to come. We need people like her to guide and help us
fight the evils in Indian society.
We are sure that our voice would be heard and you would generously
donate for this noble cause.
For more information, plz contact,
Chinmay Damle (chinmay_d@hotmail.com)
or
Mrs. Anjali Kirtane (+91-22-2422 3676)
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| | Tuesday, September 23, 2003 - 6:38 am: |
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Dear Friends,
This is an appeal to all who can help.
I'm writing for the sake of a friend whose 12-year old daughter has been diagnosed with 'Turner's Syndrome'. This is a genetic aberration manifesting into bodily growth inconsistent with the ••• of the child. The name of the family & the child has been purposely withheld at this stage for the sake of the child's future. The treatment advised by the doctors, after all the reports of the most modern tests available, is hormone replacement therapy where the inconsistent growth is suppressed and the synergistic growth is promoted. The treatment involves 730 injections (one-per-day) over a period of two years and each ampoule costs approx. Rs. 1,000/-. The entire treatment is going to cost somewhere around Rs. 800,000/- and is clearly beyond the reach of the parents. A few of us friends have got together to try and help them in this situation. We have decided to appeal to all possible sources and put together maximum amount possible for the child. We are appealing to people to sponsor one ampoule each and also appeal, in turn, their own friend-circle / charitable trusts / etc. that may be in a position to help. Would you be in a position to offer any help in this case? The name of the patient, the mode of payment, etc. will be revealed in case you decide to help.
My only request is to garner as much help as possible and help save the life a creative child from ruining. Apart from actual help, your inputs on taking this effort further are welcome. I look forward to your earliest response.
With kind regards,
Raja Pundalik
pundalik_nsk@sancharnet.in
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Mahaguru
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| | Sunday, January 11, 2004 - 11:09 pm: |
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BaaMDarkr saMsqaolaa madt krayacaI AnaokaMcaI [cCa AsaolacaÊ AnaokaMnaI madt ih kolaI Asaola.
AmaoirkotUna jyaaMnaa financial madt krayacaI Asaola %yaanaI 'honorary secretary,bhandarkar
oriental research institute
(a naavaanao caok ilahavaa. mipuneri nao saucaivalyaa p`maaNao AapNa savaa-MnaI madtinaiQa ek~ kÉna maayabaÜlaI cyaa naavaanao pazvaavaI Asao
vaaTto.
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This is for people who want to help people who r really in need of help. I visited Jagriti Blind School for girls, in Alandi yesterday. I liked the school and the way they r managing it. My classmate/blind-friend Mr. Dewaba Pawar is a president of NFBM (National Federation Of Blind Maharashtra). The school has hostel, boarding facility(food), computer rooms, activity rooms and offices. There are 103 blind girls living there, all r from rural areas.(The youngest one is 5 years old).They r in need of funds for new school and hostel building. I spent a whole day with them and had gone to see their new site too. People r really trustworthy and needy. I wanted to make sure about their integrity, that's why I did not post any message before personally visiting that place. Here is their website
www.nfbm.org
Pl. let me know who all r interested in helping them and who can suggest/guide me a better way of helping them. If u need more info. please do not hesitate to contact me. Pl. note the donations qualify for Income tax deduction.
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This is for people/friends living in USA.
NFBM (Blind Organization mentioned above) is registered with Maharashtra Foundation. People who r living in USA will also be eligible for a tax benefit, if they help NFBM thru Maharashtra Foundation. Please come forward and provide ur valuable help for the noble cause. U can help using internet.
Thanks.
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If you want to donate any funds, go to
www.mfusa.org
There is address to send your check(s). You should attach a letter clearly mentioning the Organization you want to help.
To receive help, the Organization has to submit (80G and FCRA forms) to Maharashtra Foundation. NFBM (Jagriti School of Blind Girls) has done so. A list of organizations can be found on the site.
Within a few days, you should get a receipt you can use for TAX declaration. Assuming 28% federal Tax, a $100 donation will return you $28... Hope the info. helps
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| | Tuesday, June 28, 2005 - 5:34 am: |
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varIla pÜsT maQyao idlaolyaa BaartIya vaiklaatIvarIla Mga`jaI KuNao cao puZo kaya Jaalao kLola kaÆ
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| | Thursday, October 20, 2005 - 3:10 am: |
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Please help The Marathi Localization Effort
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(posting on behalf of Swapnil Hajare)
The MarathiOpensource was started to bring benefits
of Free/Opensource softwares to the marathi speaking
people by making the software interface as well as
functioning available in Marathi. Before this, the
marathi localization was started by the Indictrans
team (see www.indictrans.org) which is a team of
developers working as a non-profit setup in
localization. I will try and summarise the entire
movement from beginning.
First, let me introduce the concept of OpenSource.
Actually, although this group is named
marathiopensource, it will be more correct to say that
we work in Free/Opensource softwares (FOSS for short).
There is difference between Free and Opensource
software and the difference is significant enough to
be mentioned specifically. This is a localization
group. Localization means bringing a particular
software into one's own language. Note that this is
not ONLY translation (see 3rd para). The process
basically involves adapting the software behaviour to
suit that particular language/culture. E.g. localizing
a software into Hindi includes, say, making that
software understand data format in Hindi, currency,
sort order etc. and many other things. Those softwares
which are designed to be extended to other
languages/cultures, are called as "internationlized".
This is a complementary process to Localization. You
will find more info at this link:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internationalization_and_localization
The basic motivation behind localization is to bring
benefits of technological advancements into once own
language. In a country like India where merely 10%
(or perhaps less?) people can understand/talk english,
it is the tool to make technology accessible to
remaining 90% or more people. One may also see this as
one way of preserving our rich heritage. We wish to
bridge the digital divide created by the language
barrier.
I want to stress this point again that localization
doesn't mean translation only. Localization has many
domensions like localized calenders and date format,
currency, measurements, numerals, etc. It also
involves testing out the translations, review of
localized interfaces. Ofcourse the first goal of any
localization team is to translate a complete desktop
environment like GNOME (www.gnome.org) or KDE
(www.kde.org) into their own language. The umbrella
organisation for all localization teams across India
is the indlinux project (see www.indlinux.org) which
was the first effort of localizing GNU/Linux into
Hindi. We all have got technical support from this
project which is lead by Karunakar.
After finishing my engineering in 2003, I started
working with Prof Shah at his other house on
localization of some softwares like yudit
(www.yudit.org), drgeo(www.ofset.org) into marathi.
This is when we started calling us Indictrans team.
Prof Jitendra Shah is the founder/funder of this team.
He paid us from his pocket to carry out the work. We
later did some Govt. and Non-Govt sector small
projects more info on which can be found on the
website. Indictrans came out with initial GNOME
desktop in Marathi. With initial That was a liveCD
named "gnubhaaratii" based on Morphix.That was first
marathi GNU/Linux desktop.Response to this CD was good
and we got newspaper coverage number of times. But due
to limited resources, we could not really scale it up
in a big way.One majot contribution of Indictrans team
is Gargi opentype font which is the first freely
available Marathi Unicode OpenType font (free here
means free for use/distribution and this font is
released under GPL -
http://www.gnu.org/licenses/licenses.html#GPL).
Meanwhile our projects in free/opensource especially
the DJMS Unicode migration and voterlist search engine
for Election Commission earned a lot of goodwill for
FOSS in Govt of Maharashtra. Looking at Prof Shah's
work so far, Ministry of IT (MIT) Central Govt asked
him to propose a project for bringing together all the
localization efforts to deliver the benefits of this
localised system to the end user. Hence janabhaaratii
came into existence. janabhaaratii is the TDIL
(www.tdil.mit.gov.in) funded initiative whose main
objective is "development, deployment and community
building for localised free/opensource softwares".
Please see www.janabhaaratii.org.in for more details.
As part of janabhaaratii project, we took forward
marathi localization work which was halted for some
time. We joined hands with marathiopensource group
lead by Vijay Barve and others and started translating
GNOME desktop. We created portal to coordinate marathi
localization at
(http://www.janabhaaratii.org.in:9673/marathi/l10n/).
We also set up
aantarabhaaratii(www.janabhaaratii.org.in/portal) as a
collaborative portal to bring together all language
teams across India. unfortunately due to some reasons,
which are beyond scope of this document, we had
resource crunch and the portal was down for some time.
Now its up. We also have "janabhaaratii Live CD" which
is again similar to gnubhaaratii, is a customised
version of popular live CD knoppix (www.knoppix.net)
with tools like fonts/keyboard and other softwares for
working in Marathi. As part of janabhaaratii, we also
did some training in Mantralaya of Govt of
Maharashtra. We also have statet police headquarters
using marathi software developed by us for their daily
reports. More info about this on janabhaaratii
website.
This is the story so far. If you are interested in
knowing what is the amount of work required to be done
to create a complate Marathi desktop, what is the work
done so far, please contact Priti Patil from our team,
who is also on this list. I would also like to comment
on current situation. We started translations of some
po files (files required to be translated for
localization) with some members of marathiopensource
group coming forward for translations. I am so sad to
see that except a few of them, nobody has given the
translations yet. It has been almost 5-6 months now
that we have assigned files and there is no news on
the files. Those few who have translated files has
done a good job, they need to keep it up. We are the
technological people and though we did translations in
the beginning, we always knew that they wont be usable
unless they are vetted by some user/language-lovers. I
agree it is a voluntary work and I have worked myself
in such environment for long time, but then despite
our continuous appeals if nobody is responding, then
it simply means that most of the people here do not
agree with the vision of localized computing and they
are not able to see the power of this phenomenon which
is to some extent our failure also.
At the end, I appeal once again to all to come and
contribute in this initiative. You dont have to be
language expert, programmer, engineer etc. All that
you need is love for your own language. This is the
best opportunity to make sure that your language
doesn't get lost in the digital age. Those who want to
help can mail me personally.
Swapnil K Hajare
Technical Coordinator,
janabhaaratii (www.janabhaaratii.org.in)
CDAC Mumbai (formerly NCST)
home: http://www.janabhaaratii.org.in/portal/Members/swapnil/
blog: http://dreamil.blogspot.com
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Please join in this effort anyway you can. There are several simple ways you can help. Even if you just try out the applications and fonts and let team know your feedback, that will go a long way to help our language.
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AjayaÊ varIla pÜYT vaacalao. svaiPnala hjaaroMcaI klpnaa KUp AavaDlaI. Cana kama kolao. jamaola tsao localization saazI maI p`ya%na krIna. Qanyvaad²
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| | Wednesday, December 28, 2005 - 8:32 am: |
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मायबोलीचे प्रशासकमहोदय,
अंतर्नाद या सर्वांगसुंदर मराठी नियतकालिकाबद्दल तुम्ही मायबोलीवर काही करू शकता का?
मी मनोगताच्या प्रशासकांनाही विनंती केली आहे, तसेच तुम्हालाही करतो, की अंतर्नादची सभासदसंख्या वाढवण्यास आपण हातभार लावावा. एक दर्जेदार मासिक चालण्यास हातभार लावल्याचे पूण्य आपल्या गाठीशी बांधले जाईल.
आपला,
एकनाथ.
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| | Wednesday, December 28, 2005 - 3:26 pm: |
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जरूर करू. आणि त्याचबरोबर मायबोलीची सभासद संख्या वाढवण्यासाठी अंतर्नाद मदत करेल अशी अपेक्षा करायला हरकत नाही, बरोबर?
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Ekanath
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| | Wednesday, December 28, 2005 - 3:50 pm: |
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माननीय प्रशासकजी,
तुम्ही तशी अपेक्षा जरुर करा, परंतू, ती पूर्ण होईल की नाही, याची कोणतीही शाश्वती मी देऊ शकत नाही.
कदाचित तुम्हाला, मी अंतर्नादचा प्रतिनिधी आहे, असे वाटले असेल. तर तसे नाहीये. मी अंतर्नादचा वर्गणीदार आहे, गेली ६ वर्षे. त्याव्यतिरिक्त माझा आणि अंतर्नादचा काही संबंध नाही.
मी अंतर्नादची सभासदसंख्या वाढवण्यास मदत करा, अशी विनंती केली त्यामागे माझी काही कारणे होती.
१. अंतर्नादने आत्तापर्यंत त्याचा दर्जा राखला आहे.
२. मराठी साहित्याला प्राधान्य देणारे आजच्या घडीला अंतर्नाद हे माझ्या माहितीप्रमाणे) एकमेव नियतकालिक आहे.
३. गेल्या १० वर्षातल्या अंतर्नादच्या योगदानाने, अंतर्नाद हा एक सांस्कृतिक ठेवा बनलेला आहे. ( हे मी नाही, तर मान्यवर म्हणतात. )
४. अंतर्नाद, माझ्या माहितीप्रमाणे, आर्थिक अडचणीत आहे.
त्यामुळे मला वाटले की मनोगत किंवा मायबोली सारखी संकेतस्थळे अंतर्नादला मदत करून महाराष्ट्राच्या सांस्कृतिक ठेवा जपण्यास मदत करू शकतील. (अर्थात, फार मोठ्या मदतीची याचनाही केली नव्हती. फक्त, तुम्ही तुमच्यातर्फे अधिकृत आवाहन केले असते तरी चालले असते. असो. )
" त्याबदल्यात " अंतर्नादने मायबोलीसाठी काही करावे, अशी मागणी तुम्ही कराल, असे मला वाटले नव्हते. तसा अंदाज असता, तर विनंती करून मी मलाच तोंडघाशी पाडले नसते.
असो. तुमच्या प्रतिसादाबद्दल धन्यवाद.
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| | Wednesday, December 28, 2005 - 4:10 pm: |
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एकनाथजी,
तुम्हाला तोंडघशी पाडल्यासारखे होईल असा माझा हेतु नव्हता. पण अनवधानाने झाले असेल तर तुमची मनःपूर्वक क्षमा मागतो.
गेली नऊ वर्षे कुठल्याही परतफेडिची अपेक्षा न करता मायबोली फक्त देत आली आहे. तसेच कुठल्याही सेवाभावी संस्थेची माहिती सभासदाना व्हावी याकरिता नेहमीच प्रयत्न करीत आली आहे.
पण सेवाभावी नसलेल्या संस्थेला मदत करताना परतफेडिची अपेक्षा ठेवण्यात काही चुकते आहे असे मला तरी वाटले नाही.
मला असे वाटते की, जे जे मराठीच्या प्रसारासाठी प्रयत्न करतात त्या सगळ्यानीच एकमेकाना मदत केली(आर्थिक नाही पण इतर तर्हेने) तर सगळ्यांनाच त्याचा उपयोग होईल
माझं चुकलं असेल तर सोडून द्या.
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Bee
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| | Thursday, December 29, 2005 - 1:48 am: |
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एकनाथ, अंतर्नाद बद्दल आम्हाला काहीच माहिती नाही. तेंव्हा जर सविस्तर माहिती मिळाली तर बरे होईल. मी नेहमी चांगले मासिक subscribe करण्याच्या प्रयत्नात असतो पण होते असे की सहा एक महिने एखादे मासिक वाचून त्यात फ़ारसे नाविन्य वाटत नाही मग मी ते परत unsubscribe करतो. तरीही नविन मासिक अजमावून बघायला मला आवडेल.
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Admin
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| | Thursday, December 29, 2005 - 2:56 am: |
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अंतर्नादचा पत्ताः
सी-२, गार्डन इस्टेट,
वायरलेस कॉलनीजवळ, औंध,
पुणे ४११००७
अधिक माहितीसाठी एकनाथ यांच्याशी संपर्क साधा
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Ekanath
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| | Thursday, December 29, 2005 - 7:10 am: |
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प्रशासकजी,
मनपूर्वक धन्यवाद.
अशाच आवाहनाची अपेक्षा होती.
नाही चूक कोणाचीच नाही. गैरसमज असावेत. ते सविस्तर ई-पत्राने कळवतो.
मराठी संवर्धनासाठी मदतीबद्दल मनपूर्वक धन्यवाद आणि शुभेच्छा.
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