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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Self-appraisal
A little boy went into a drug store, reached for a soda carton and pulled it over to the telephone. He climbed onto the carton so that he could reach the buttons on the…
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Why we shout in anger, and whisper in love
Human relationships frequently fracture when emotional distances grow between hearts. This curated spiritual narrative connects your path to timeless philosophical lessons on empathy and connection. Elegantly paired with historical Indian postage stamps…
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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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Everyone has a story
A 24-year-old boy looking out from the train’s window shouted, “Dad, look, the trees are going behind!” His Dad smiled and a young couple sitting nearby looked at the 24-year-old’s childish behaviour…
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Sharing a slice
A person visited a fruit-seller often to buy oranges. After the fruits are weighed, he would pick one out, taste a slice, complain that it is sour, and leave it there. Before…
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UBUNTU
UBUNTU is a very nice story from Africa. The motivation behind the Ubuntu culture in Africa. An anthropologist visiting Africa proposed a game to the tribal children … He placed a basket…
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A bunch of flowers
A bus was bumping along a backroad in the south of India. In one seat sat an old man, holding a bunch of fresh flowers. Across the aisle was a young girl…
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The hand
On the eve of Thanksgiving Day, a school teacher asked her class of nursery school children to draw a picture of something they were thankful for. She thought of how little these…