Ayodhya to Lanka Hike~A Journey of Biodiversity on Long Island!
Can we imagine a mini journey through the significant stops that Rama took on his way to Lanka, searching for Sita? Right here on Long...
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Nitin Rajagopalan
Oct 243 min read
YICG~Golf Links ~ Passion meets Purpose
A total confluence of Talent, Service, Camaraderie, Intergenerational Bonds, and just like that YICG~Golf Links was born The idea and...
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Games For Seva
Aug 152 min read
YICG Gita Vicara Leadership Program 24-25
FOR GRADES 7-12 Click here to Register for the Program Click here for Class Timing Selection - Section 1, 2, 3 Fri/Sat Click here to...
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Rathi Raja
Aug 143 min read
Battle of Purusharthas ~ The Story behind the Game
What does it take to live a life that involves the principles of Dharma, Artha, Kama & Moksha? What are the Virtues and Values that must...
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Sanskriti Rathore
Aug 83 min read
The Power of Game Pods with Family & Friends
A journey through game pods with a how-to checklist. Featured Game ~ Chariots of Fate Purchase Game here Here is a YouTube Video...
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Krishiv Shah
Jul 174 min read
GVLP~Rewild Long Island - The Commitment Story 2024
Cultivating Change: The Impact of the GVLP ReWild Long Island '24 Initiative
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Sanskriti Rathore
Jun 214 min read
Ramayana Treasure Hunt & Trail
The YICG Ramayana Festival was a day much awaited by all.
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Rathi Raja
Jun 32 min read
'Make-A-Difference' Leadership Retreat 2024 @ AVG
Make~A~Difference Retreat @AVG Inspiration happens naturally in environments that foster reflective work, along with plenty of personal...
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Games For Seva
Dec 30, 20236 min read
The BIG Game Release - 'Chariots of Fate'
The Games We Played Chariots of Fate Purchase Game Here THE GAME DESIGN TEAM - AARYA AGARWAL, ASVIN RANGANATHAN, ANKUR RAGHAVAN, MANU...
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Rathi Raja
Oct 19, 20235 min read
Chariots of Fate - The Story behind The Game
The Inspiration The Journey of Life has many imponderable twists and turns, fueled by our aspirations and dealing with obstacles that...
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Games For Seva
Aug 30, 20232 min read
YICG Gita Vicara Leadership Program 23-24
FOR GRADES 7-12 Click here to Register for the Program Click here to join our community Whatsapp group 2023-2024 GVLP Program Details...
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Madhu Allu
Aug 28, 20235 min read
PURA VIDA - PURE LIFE
Embarking on an exploration of this wondrous realm called Costa Rica is akin to embarking on an illuminating eco-pilgrimage. Amidst these...
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Saniya Gaitonde
Aug 25, 20233 min read
Costa Rica 2023 ~ Nature Journaling & Art
'Nature Journaling and Art' was one of our commitments during this trip and we had deep moments of stillness to capture certain themes....
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Saniya Gaitonde
Aug 23, 20237 min read
Costa Rica 2023 ~ Reflections by the GVLP Board
From Rathi Raja and Madhu Allu Gita Vicara Leadership Program Our trip to Costa Rica was envisioned as a Prithvi~Mother Earth immersion...
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Rina Visvanathan
Jul 17, 20236 min read
Art of Storytelling ~ Climate Fiction Game
What a Blast! Our Annual Gita Vicara - 2023 'The Art of Storytelling~Climate Fiction' Game 'Pass the Plot', 'Improv Under Pressure',...
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Samy Arun Kumar
Jul 17, 20232 min read
GVLP~Rewild Long Island - The Commitment Story 2023
If you would like to join this movement, email gamesforseva@gmail.com YICG - Gita Vicara Leadership Program class of 2024 felicitated by...
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Games For Seva
May 2, 20232 min read
BEE-HIVE BLITZ
OUR VERSION OF SHARK TANK WHERE THREE TEAMS PITCH THEIR GAME PROTOTYPES The Timeline 7-9 grade kids are introduced to a set of games ...
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Madhu Allu
Dec 23, 20222 min read
Gamestorming Festival for Prithvi~Mother Earth - Dec 10th, 2022
What did we GET DONE!? Play Tested our new game concepts Played our Body~Chariot Upside Down EcoPunch Wall Game Built Heritage Temples &...
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Rathi Raja
Dec 22, 20223 min read
Ecological Living ~ Hacks & Prototypes ~
Prithvi~Mother Earth Calling - The Design Story The challenge we set for ourselves this year was to discover a game design process that...
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Games For Seva
Aug 25, 20221 min read
YICG Gita Vicara Leadership Program 2022-23
'Prithvi~Mother Earth' 2022-2023 ‘Prithvi~Mother Earth - The Vision of the Gita ‘, an Ecological Call to Action' Open to Grades...
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Saniya Gaitonde & Riya Gupta
Aug 5, 20224 min read
Amsterdam-Too. Much. Happened. YICG Games for Seva Travels
We could not have asked for more! Design Thinking Tools, Sustainability, Circularity, Design for the Greater Good, Meeting people with a...
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Riya Gupta
Jul 1, 20222 min read
'Values' Festival 2022 @ AVG ~ The Story
A first for us! Team YICG Games for Seva comes together to host an amazing 'Values' Festival at our beloved Arsha Vidya Gurukulam!
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Games For Seva
May 3, 20222 min read
Wisdom Without Borders ~ Powerhouse Toolkit of Games
WWB is a collection of games, embodying values, dharma principles, Bhagavad Gita, Ramayana, Mahabarata, and the true essence of Games for...
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Rathi Raja
May 2, 20224 min read
YICG Project~Now for Social & Environmental Outreach in India
Care * Connect * Contribute DONATE to Support Project~Now YICG Project~Now was born in 2021, as an urgent initiative to get Oxygen...
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Games For Seva
May 1, 20224 min read
About Rathi Raja
Rathi Raja is the Executive Director of Young Indian Culture Group, in Long Island, for the past 28 years. She is also the resident...
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Games For Seva
Apr 30, 20223 min read
About Madhu Allu
Madhu Allu is the Co-Program Director of the Gita Vicara Leadership Program for the past 9 years, under the auspices of Young Indian...
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Games For Seva
Feb 28, 20222 min read
May 28th, 2022 'Values Festival' @ AVG
CLICK HERE FOR FREE REGISTRATION About Our ‘Values’ Festival Our inaugural ‘Values’ Festival at AVG is a culmination and a beginning. A...
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Riya Gupta
Jan 23, 20225 min read
'Somethings Never Change', Exploring The Mahabharata
A Podcast Series On Universal Emotions 'Anger~Jealousy~Envy~Deception' Featured Games: Memory Maya, Dharma Dilemmas, Clash of Dynasties,...
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Riya Gupta
Dec 30, 20213 min read
Deep Conversations, Playing Games, and Mental health
We portray ourselves in different forms to different people. Masks define us in these moments, in which we must adjust and accommodate to...
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Games For Seva
Sep 15, 20212 min read
Ganga On Kickstarter-The Final Sprint in 6 Steps
The Story on Kickstarter - Click to Read 1. Wake up and Realize only 36 Hours left Shake the Banyan Tree 2. Call to Action - Holler,...
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Games For Seva
Jul 18, 20211 min read
GfS Summer Game Design Retreat @ AVG 2021
Arrival & Set up at AVG Game Design Stations Chariots of Fate, Dharma Dilemmas, Indian Tarot Cards Gods & Goddesses New Games...
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Games For Seva
Jul 12, 20211 min read
Games for Seva : 2020-2021 - A Year in Pictures
August 2020: Our Presidential Volunteer Awardees October 2020: Ganga~River Rescue Kickstarter Kickoff November 2020: Youth led Cohorts...
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Games For Seva
Mar 5, 20213 min read
Young Game Designers on Ganga~River Rescue - The GAME!
Join the Kickstarter Launch News Group here On Strategy & Fun Aaria: The reason why the game is so fun is because as you get into the...
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Games For Seva
Dec 16, 20202 min read
5 Steps To Hosting a Virtual Game Community
Nov 22nd, 2020 was our D-Day, launching another first by hosting a 'Holiday Game Blast. Connecting 30 Family Pods virtually was a NASA...
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Rathi Raja
Nov 4, 20206 min read
2020 Treasures from the Gita ~ Youth Voices Part 1
The youth Vedic classes have yielded profound nuggets of gold that only multiply in the sharing. So here is a gift of treasures that...
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Games For Seva
Oct 15, 20202 min read
9 Days of Navaratri - Ganga Chronicles
Water is the source of life and the holy river Ganga personifies all water on our planet. Our 'Ganga~River Rescue' game gives the player...
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Rathi Raja
Oct 8, 20202 min read
Ganga~River Rescue Getting Ready for Kickstarter
Games for Seva activities were always about creating value and embracing a strong socially conscious vision of how to live in this world...
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Games For Seva
Aug 22, 20202 min read
Lessons in Mentoring Game Design
Mentoring is an Art and a Science, waiting to be discovered by a process of trial and commission. This past summer of COVID 2020, 11...
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Rathi Raja
Aug 19, 20202 min read
GVLP 2020-21
What is Leadership? A much used word, we have a sense for it, and yet eludes, at many levels, a crisp definition. I have an insight that...
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Games For Seva
Aug 18, 20201 min read
Delhi to Jaipur ~ A Virtual Game Design Camp 2020
It was a strange summer of our times with lock downs, quarantines and Zoom burnouts! But we were traveling a path untrodden, at breakneck...
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Games For Seva
Aug 11, 20202 min read
Presidential Awards 2020~Our 5 year Journey
2020 was a banner year for YICG Games for Seva in terms of being recognized as a unique leadership program, providing not only the...
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Aug 7, 20201 min read
Vision of the Gita~10 Essential Verses
It can be overwhelming. So when Pujya Swamiji Dayananda Saraswati’s book on the ’10 Essential verses of the Bhagavad Gita’ was published,...
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Aug 7, 20201 min read
Eco-Dharma in ‘Ganga – A River Rescue’
Purchase Game Ganga-River Rescue is a dynamic game of strategy and chance. Set upon the mighty Ganga River, we must race to save their...
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Sanjna Kedia
Aug 6, 20202 min read
Wisdom Without Borders @ RANA, New York
Sanjna Kedia with Japesh, Aarya and Diya Games for Seva is making its way to the community at large, and I’m glad to report the...
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Aug 6, 20201 min read
The Masters~Wisdom Quotation Decks to live by
My childhood years were defined by a lot reading. In fact I remember reading a good chunk of Swami Vivekananda’s writings one summer as a...
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Aug 6, 20201 min read
‘The Acts’ ~ Itihasas & Puranas Jewel in the Crown Series
The simple ‘Acts’ of looking at the Ramayana in search of the wise sayings embedded in conversations, within the dramatic build up to the...
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Aug 6, 20202 min read
Glories~A Cosmic Vision of Isvara’s Vibhutis
Past & Future come together Sometimes ideas start as a glimmer or a remembrance. I have a vivid recollection of sitting in the main...
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Aug 6, 20203 min read
Dreams of Maddur ~ Into the heart of Tamil Nadu
A Unique Editing Journey by Dr. Vardhini Desikan As a family, we would spend every summer visiting family in Tamil Nadu. During one such...
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Saniya Gaitonde
Aug 4, 20201 min read
Battle of Purusharthas – Reflections on the game @AVG
“I am. I like. I believe.” Everything is constructed of elements. Even the things that aren’t objects. Like who we are, what we do, and...
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