About Wellsprings

This site is a cluster of wellsprings. Wellsprings of heartwarming anecdotes, stirring stories, age-old fables, epic tales, mythical musings, good deeds, life's lessons, inspiring insights, and much more. None of these are our own but they have something for all of us. That's why we have taken the liberty of putting them together, acknowledging the source or the author wherever we could.

  • Penicillin, the miracle drug

    On a September morning in 1928, Alexander Fleming sat at his work bench at St. Mary’s Hospital after having just returned from a vacation at The Dhoon (his country house) with his…

  • “Eureka! Eureka”

    Archimedes (c. 287-c. 212 BC) was a Greek mathematician, physicist, engineer, astronomer, and inventor from the ancient city of Syracuse in Sicily. Although few details of his life are known, he is regarded as one of the leading scientists in classical antiquity. Considered the greatest…

  • Towering humility

    The dramatic photograph of Tenzing Norgay on the summit of Everest went around the world. Later people wondered why there was no similar picture of Hillary. The explorer wrote that he had…

  • The Curies discover radium

    A few days before the Christmas of 1898, Pierre Curie scrawled the word ‘radium’ in his notebook as the name for a new element he and his wife Marie had brought laboriously…

  • The company of children

    A beautiful post from one mother to another to-be-mother… There were days when my home used to be filled with laughter, arguments, fights and loads of mischief.  Pens and books all over,…

  • Greed

    A student asked his teacher, “What is greed?” The teacher said, “In order to answer your question, go through the chocolate factory next to our school and pick the one chocolate you…

  • The ship of friendship

    A voyaging ship was wrecked during a storm at sea and only two of the men on it were able to swim to a small, desert like island.   The two survivors…