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equipments and other articles have been provided to sick and disabled persons and children, food, sweets, woollen jersies etc. to lepers, sewing machines to the needy women, monthly scholarships to the needy families and children for education, and building material for village schools etc. Ahimsa International has made a standing offer to all the large hospitals in Delhi to recommend suitable cases for defraying the cost of blood transfusion and life-saving drugs. It proposes to provide medical and equipment assistance to the sick and disabled persons on permanent basis.
It intends to establish a unit to manufacture artificial limbs of quality and standard to be supplied free of cost to the disabled.
During the 2500th Nirvan year of Bhagwan Mahavir in 1974-75, the programmes presented by Ahimsa International before the audience have won it spectacular popularity. It has presented devotional music in a modern way in its classical character with aesthetic fervour. The rendering of dance sequences by famous artists on the life and philosophy of Tirthankaras and the Buddha and on the Bhajans of great poets have been arranged at various places.
A significant achievement of Ahimsa International is the production of Ballet on Bhagwan Mahavir by Shri Ram Bharatiya Kala Kendra, a renowned dance and music institution of the counry. It was presented on three days on November 27, 28 & 29, 1974 at the Kamani Auditorium, New Delhi and again on the pressing demand on December 26 and 27, 1977. The press and the public appreciated the lyric verses and superior performance of the artists, and also the choreogaphy, music and light effects. A bold venture, it opened new dimensions for presenting religious themes in appealing classical style which hitherto were considered unstageable. On the pattern of this Ballet many associations and institutions prepared and presented the Jain Ballets.
Honouring and extending recognition to the scholars and bringing together persons of the various fields have been the endeavour of Ahimsa International, Various large and small functions have been organised to honour the distinguished scientists, scholars and those persons who have established large hospitals in the country and those Doctors who are providing medical and social service of a high calibre.
Ahimsa International has instituted an annual award "Ahimsa International Deputy Mal Jain Memorial Award" of Rs. 11,000/- to be presented to the authors/scholars taking into consideration the quality of their total works or outstanding quality of a single work or works on non-violence vagetarianism, Jain religion, philosophy, culture, literature, journalism, mathematics, astronomy, archaelogy etc. written in Hindi/English languages. It has been instituted with
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