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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…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • Making a difference

    An old man was out for a walk along the beach near his house early in the morning. Ahead of him, he saw a young girl who was walking at the edge…

  • A puppy for sale

    A farmer had some puppies to sell.  He painted a sign advertising the pups and set about nailing it to a post on the edge of his yard. As he was driving…

  • ‘Bhootabhrute namaha’

    In the famous Sri Ranganatha Swamy temple in Srirangam, Tamil Nadu, a long line of devotees would patiently wait for the delicious prasadam, even a few centuries ago. A poor Vaishnavite used to be…

  • Who insults you?

    When Abraham Lincoln became the President of America, his father was a shoemaker.  And, naturally, egoistic people were very much offended that a shoemaker’s son should become the President.   On the first…

  • Only the truth

    A blind boy sat on the steps of a building with a hat by his feet. He held up a sign that said: “I am blind, please help.” There were only a…