31 May 2005, AIMS Kochi ATMA, Anti-Tobacco Movement at Amrita, launched by the Amrita Institute of Medical Sciences, started functioning on Tuesday. It was inaugurated by former minister K.B.Ganesh Kumar. Swami Poornamritananda Puri, general secretary of Mata Amritanandamayi Math, delivered the benedictory address and City Police Commissioner Dinendra Kashyap administered the oath of ATMA. K.G.Viswambharan [Read more... click the article link above]

30 May 2005 25 houses in the Alappuzha district are ready for habitation. The work on the 125 other houses is about 80 percent over. The ashram is building two types of houses here according to the two plans provided by the government – one for houses close to the sea and one for those [Read more... click the article link above]

Amma in Japan from 29 – 31 May 2005

25 May 2005 Amma left Amritapuri this morning for 8 weeks of spiritual programmes to Japan, USA and Canada . Amma will hold programmes in 12 cities in this two months tour. As is usual there will be satsangs, bhajans, meditation sessions and darshan at all the programmes. This is the 19th year Amma is [Read more... click the article link above]

20 – 24 May 2005  — Amritapuri A second educational camp for tsunami-affected children was held at the Ashram, this time for 6,000 kids from the neighboring district of Alappuzha . yoga-eng class question answer session The children were given free classes in spoken English and in yoga. They also had many classes with the [Read more... click the article link above]

21 May 2005 — Amritapuri University, Amritapuri Campus The first TIFAC-CORE in Biomedical Technology, Amrita TIFAC-CORE, was inaugurated at the Amritapuri Campus of Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham on Saturday by the secretary of India’s Department of Science & Technology, Professor V. Ramamurthy. Dean of Amrita University Mr. Nambootiri, Professor V. Ramamurthy of Department of Science & [Read more... click the article link above]

18th May 2005 at 10:15pm “Darshan – The Embrace”, a film on the life of Amma has been officially selected for showcasing at the prestigious 2005 Cannes Film Festival. Jan Kounen, an award winning filmmaker who was born in Netherlands and is based in France, directed the film. Manuel De La Roche of France, is [Read more... click the article link above]