Greetings,

Today we completed our first year as an information resource on Himachal
Pradesh. I am forwarding you a few articles which talk about what all we
did in past one year and our vision for future. With this we would like
to thank all the people who have supported us all this while.

A citizen journalism effort in Himachal completes one-year
By: Vividhaditya

It’s been an eventful year for HimVani as it celebrates its first
anniversary. It was on February 14th 2006, HimVani started as a blog on
Blogspot. So before I go into flashback, I’d like to thank all the
citizens of Himachal Pradesh for making HimVani a great success. It
initially started as my personal ramblings on Himachal Pradesh – as a
blog. And then Varun, Sanjay, Nityin, Surekha, Neha, Hema, Vikas,
Swadesh, Shekhar and Ms Saroj Thakur came on board. However, I’m happy
to say that today it isn’t any more just our website. It’s the citizens’
property today, who’ve made grassroots journalism a great success. Why
we call it grassroots journalism and why not citizens’ journalism, I’ll
delve into later.

http://www.himvani.com/news/2007/02/14/a-citizen-journalism-effort-in-himachal-c\
ompletes-one-year/610/grassroots-journalism/admin/



HimVani spells out its vision for Himachal
By: Varun Rattan Singh

Working on a new initiative is like raising one’s children. It brings
its own anxieties, worries and happiness. Today our small baby -
HimVani.com completes one year. What started as a small community for
Himachali's in 2001 has taken shape of an information resource for the
people and by the people of Himachal Pradesh. The story of how we
reached here is long and probably I will talk about it some other time.
For the time being we have one year experience of running an initiative
behind us. So is it time to sit back and celebrate or do we plan ahead
and set some more targets for us in the coming year? I have been
deliberating on these issues for a while. I think it is time to share
some thoughts and probably open the house for people to give us a feedback.

For a long time we have kept one word in our mind i.e. Catalyst.
http://www.himvani.com/news/2007/02/14/himvani-spells-out-its-vision-for-himacha\
l/611/developmenteconomics/varun/



A turn around the hill
Sanjay V

Trudging through mindspaces that unfurled on Himvani over the past one
year, I can only say the landscape ahead is no less enchanting. Much
having already been said by fellow travellers, I can only say it has
been a spiritual journey for me, a pilgrimage exploring the vast
possibilities and layers of meanings that can be attributed to living in
the mountains, especially Himachal. Himvani, in fact, is an expression
of this feeling for each one of us and that is why we have been
cohabiting here in virtual space as well. That Himvani is growing
exponentially is reason enough for us all to keep moving towards a new
horizon of hope and contented living.
http://www.himvani.com/news/2007/02/14/a-turn-around-the-hill/613/opinion/sanjay\
versain/



HimVani can be a store house of everything pertaining to Himachal
By: Saroj Thakur

It was by chance and not design that I came to know about HimVani! Why
is it that we take for granted all those things that we get so easily?
Like the fresh air that we breathe, all those qualities that set us,
Himachali's, apart from others, were always taken for granted by me. It
was travelling out of state and interactions with many others that make
us see and appreciate values, attitudes and beliefs that make us different.

I came in contact with HimVani when I posted a write-up “What makes me
proud of being a Himachali” on my personal bog. And after that it is
history.
http://www.himvani.com/news/2007/02/14/himvani-can-be-a-store-house-of-everythin\
g-pertaining-to-himachal/612/grassroots-journalism/sarojthakur/


with warm regards

Varun Rattan Singh

Team member
www.HimVani.com - The Voice of Himachal
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