Capture Gods Own Kitchen: The Inspiring Story Of Akshaya PatraA Social Enterprise Run By Monks And CEOs Fabricated By Rashmi Bansal In Electronic Format

Bansal does an amazing job of picking interesting human and business stories tell, Given the dearth of good contemporary Indian nonfiction, nonsociopolitical writing this is a very valuable niche, Her success highlights this.

The book itself has lot of potential, Akshaya Patra is a familiar organization that has done amazing work away from the spotlight and away from the personality cult, I picked up this book to learn about the people and process of creating this inspirational organization, While the book does do justice in telling the story, but it is a plain narrative or a timeline rundown of how the organization grew.
The book could have gone a little deeper and added lot more richness to the story by adding more personal stories from different stakeholders.
The book comes across as a collection of interviews than a story, But having read her previous works, my expectation was set to this and she lived up to it,

I think Rashmi fills an important void and I congratulate her for that and would continue to read her work for the subjects that she picks.
Feeding a child is not charity,it is our collective duty, .
During a recent visit to Vrindavaan I came across the name Akshaya Patra which I assumed to be the name of a person.
Later on,We visited the akshaya patra kitchen and was surprised to see the huge project being run by saintswho claimed to be devotees of lord krishna and associated with ISKCON International Society for Krishna Consciousness surprised by the scale and ambition of their project I picked up this book to dig deeper about the story behind.
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Started with serving mid day meal to justchildrens,akshaya patra currently serves,million meals every day fromlocations acrossstates, The story of Akshaya patra is a perfect example to show how publicprivate partnership PPP model can bring about a change,
What is more interesting is the intent behind the cause!! This is a story of innovation, entrepreneurship,bhakti and a desire to see future generations getting nutritious and safe food.

A phone withbattery cannot last the day, So it is with a hungry child, The mid day meal is a charger, Infusing energy in the body,accelerating the mind, A strong message and that 'never back down' attitude can really move mountains, Never thought that the monks, corporates and government can pull together such a great initiative, An interesting read and truly inspiring, An enlightening read !!!! The book was simply unputdownable, . :" The journey of Askhay Patra which began with a simple wish to do something different is highly commendable, I think the men amp women who diligently toiled and embarked on this soujourn make it a unique and unparalleled program in the entire world touching so many lives maintaining extremely high standards of hygiene and seamlessly assimilating management sutras and amalgamating with the technology to constantly evolve is something worth reading.
The photographs with no captions were a let down though, Simple, lucid and very well written book, Strongly recommended. The book firmly entrenches the fact that education which cannot deliver back to society is meaningless, The role of Infosys in Akshay Patra has been an eye opener, One of the few books which I picked up and could only put it down once I reached the last page and finished withinhrs itself speaks about the book.
Would have loved to pen more but its would have spoiled the joy of reading the book, . . Happy reading to all. . !! While the story of Akshaya Patra is very inspiring, I am not completely impressed with the narration, There are interesting anecdotes but I felt some parts were hurried through without much pause, Yet, the story is such an inspiration that, the reading takes over most of what we miss!for the Content! A gripping chronological narrative of an organization serving for a noble cause!

But I expected an indepth behindthescenes and behindtheminds account of the journey.
Anyway a good starter kit to warm up your senses of hope and humanity,

You can "Be the change you want to see in this world" ! Inspiring stuff, I love the sometimes funny, sometimes touching anecdotes on the journey to setting amp scaling up India's largest midday meal program for underprivileged school children.
Inspiring story of successful social venture Akshaya Patra An inspiring story on how small group of people can do something revolutionary in a country where you face difficulties on each and every step God's own kitchen by Rashmi Bansal gives a complete picture of the spectacular Akshaya Patra story.
The initial idea and people behind the scenes, the various challenges faced, the different solutions applied which ultimately transformed the mid day meal programme to cover across India feeding over a million kids daily, are all explained in detail.
Besides the noble cause of feeding children, I particularly liked the various solutions implemented to give preference to the kids' food choices across India yet never compromising on the nutritional value.
Be it visiting Amritsar Golden Temple kitchen or Dharamshala kitchen, to making their own roti making machines people who had no experience in running such programme came together to setup kitchens, manage the logistics, and make it a success despite all the difficulties faced.
Like the 'akshaya patra' granted by Krishna to Draupadi, may the modern Akshaya Patra be that inexhaustible vessel, Definitely one of my favorite non fiction books! Such a noble need of feeding the hungry, This books tells us how humanity is Alice in the form of modern educated monks and also the corporate head honcho of the world.
It'syears of hard work full of belief n perseverance which has made Akshaya Patra what it is today, At the end of the book u really wonder what does Rs,/ mean to you means much more to a child, . . Its his/her one years one time meal, Hats off to Rasmi Bansal for making the read so smooth story like making it more gripping and interesting, Easy and quick read, as usual works of Rashmi Bansal with her research work on the projects seen in this book as well.
Good book on the Akshaya Patra of ISKCON, I am an academician in a field of social work and I think all the Social Work students should read this book, . it will not only give them practical illustration of the theories they study but will definitely boost their morale to do something efficient for the society.

Moreover talking about spiritual beliefs and faith, . . It's not exaggeration if I say that I've got goosebumps on almost each page! Read the full review here sitelink bookgeeks. in/godsownkitc Despite knowing about Akshaya Patra, Rashmi Bansal's narration made me feel how much ignorant I was! This is a mustread for all.
Every page is a management case study and solutions look simple only in hindsight because they come from simplehearted monks yet profound! This is by no means a well written book.
It skims through the Akshay Patra history and reads more like excerpts from interview transcripts, rather than a story, But the book is about an organization I greatly admire, so I enjoyed reading the interesting tidbits about how it started, how it grew leaps and bounds, and how people overcame practical and social obstacles using ingenious and deceptively simple approaches.
One of the many examples given in the book is about when a new kitchen was set up in a remote tribal area in Rajasthan.
The local tribal women were hired to do the cooking, but there was a concern since the women did not focus much on hygiene, they did not even bathe everyday.
Instead of lecturing them about the importance of cleanliness, the person incharge simply asked them to offer the cooked food to the local deity as bhog everyday.
This did it. The women automatically started caring about cleanliness because their religious beliefs prohibited them from praying to God without taking a bath, "For hungry minds work best on full stomachs, " Rashmi Bansal in this book
अकषय जसक कषय न हत ह
"अकषय पतर " What a beautiful and inspiring name !
Roughly, the "Paatra" Cooking utensil which will never run short of food.
Mahabharata
This was the story of how highlyeducated monks from ISKCON started with the midday meal program to feed schoolchildren on the insistence of Mohandas Pai of Infosys.
And how starting from a fewkids, they have scaled it up to,million kids per day and growing, Each stage of the journey has been described by the author, There were a no. of hurdles from running out of money, harassment from vested interests, inventing new ways of preparing and distributing food and learning all along the way.

Read it in a single sitting and was such an uplifting experience ! Recommended ! It was a light and refreshing read for me atleast considering the kind of books i am reading these days.
This book was written in a very simple language, I enjoyed it thoroughly. Akshay Patra is the best example of how corporate and religion can work together to serve the purpose of feeding kids, Even Akshay Patra Mahabharata name is kinda perfect, it means utensil which will never run short of food, For every Indian child knows the story of the rice bowl blessed by Krishna which produces endless rice, Nothing is greater than giving food to others as per our culture and ISKCON has done it, I love the way how author narrated the story from the scratch till this initiative became magnanimous, Akshay Patra is an organization which not only promises a good nutritious

hot meal but delivers so consistently to participating schools across India.


Now i have a huge respect for this organization, Even i will make sure that i will donate to this lovely organisation in every Diwali, Sanskranti and Ganesh Chaturthi, Rashmi Bansal is a writer, entrepreneur and youth expert, She is the author of two bestselling books on entrepreneurship, Stay Hungry Stay Foolish features the stories ofMBAs who left lucrative jobs to follow the rough road of entrepreneurship, The book created a new record in Indian publishing by selling over,copies and has been translated intolanguages, Rashmis second book, Connect the Dots focuses on non MBA entrepreneurs, It has also been a bestseller, selling over,copies, Her third book I Have a Dream, on social entrepreneurs, is releasing in May, Rashmi is co founder and editor of JAM Just Another Magazine, Indias leading youth magazine, She writes extensively on youth, careers and entrepreneurship o Rashmi Bansal is a writer, entrepreneur and youth expert, She is the author of two bestselling books on entrepreneurship, Stay Hungry Stay Foolish features the stories ofMBAs who left lucrative jobs to follow the rough road of entrepreneurship, The book created a new record in Indian publishing by selling over,copies and has been translated intolanguages, Rashmis second book, Connect the Dots focuses on non MBA entrepreneurs, It has also been a bestseller, selling over,copies, Her third book I Have a Dream, on social entrepreneurs, is releasing in May, Rashmi is co founder and editor of JAM Just Another Magazine, Indias leading youth magazine, She writes extensively on youth, careers and entrepreneurship on her popular blog: Youth Curry, Rashmi is a columnist on popular Indian news portal Rediff, com. She has been Consulting Editor with Businessworld magazine and Bloomberg UTV, where she hosted Indias first interactive show on careers, Rashmi is a consultant for international youth research agencies such as The Futures Company a division of WPP, London and Flamingo Research Singapore.
A guest lecturer at various business schools of repute including IIM Ahmedabad, IIM Bangalore, ISB, S P Jain among others, Rashmi mentors numerous students and young entrepreneurs.
She also conducts motivational talks and youth insight seminars for corporates, sitelink.