The young mother set her foot on the path of life. “Is this a long way?” she asked. The guide said, “Yes, and the way is hard. You will be old before…
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Sleeping through the storm
A young man applied for a job as a farmhand. When the farmer asked for his qualifications, one of the things he mentioned was that he could “sleep when the wind blows.”…
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The price of a miracle
Tess, a precocious eight-year-old, heard her Mom and Dad talking about her little brother, Andrew. All she knew was that he was very sick and they were completely out of money. They…
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Subhash Palekar: Krishi ka Rishi
After witnessing the harmful effects of chemical farming, Subhash Palekar, a B.Sc in Agriculture, developed the Zero Budget Natural Farming model. ‘Krishi ka Rishi’ is the title farming communities across the country have…
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Timbaktu Collective: Where the earth meets the sky
Partnering 20,000 families of Rayalaseema. This is the story of a land that was at one time lying ravaged, drought-stricken and forsaken. It was a committed revolution led by a couple, Bablu…
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The idea of KISS
A schooling initiative in Bhubaneswar doesn’t leave it to government, seeks to be the change agent. In a fairy tale, a kiss turned a frog into a prince. Recently, I was fortunate…
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Babar Ali – the world’s youngest headmaster
23-year-old Babar Ali, popularly known as the world’s youngest headmaster, started a school when he was all of nine. The school that Babar started in backward Bhabta village in West Bengal with…
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God brews the coffee, not the cups
A group of friends, highly established in their careers, got together to visit their old university professor. Conversation soon turned into complaints about stress in work and life. Offering his guests coffee,…
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The house with the golden windows
Once, a little girl lived in a small, simple house on a hill. As she grew up playing in her small garden, she could see, over the garden fence and across the…
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Building bridges
Once upon a time, two brothers who lived on adjoining farms fell into conflict. It was the first serious rift in 40 years of farming side by side, sharing machinery, labour and…
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Hasty to judge
A man and his daughter were playing in the park. The little girl spotted an apple vendor and asked her father to buy her an apple. The man didn’t have much…
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Giving & receiving
There was a Korean firm, which was exporting fabric to an Indonesian firm at the rate of 17 cents per yard. All of a sudden, due to certain policy initiatives of the…