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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…

  • Labels

    I sat in my chair quietly next to my Mom & Dad as my Grade-IV teacher gave them an update on my progress at school. “Your child is a slow learner,” said…

  • 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…

  • Kindness pays!

    One day, a poor boy who was selling goods from door to door to pay his way through school, found he had only one dime  left, and he was hungry. He decided…

  • Pick-up in the rain

    One night, at 11:30 pm, an older African-American woman was standing on the side of an Alabama highway, trying to endure a lashing rainstorm. Her car had broken down and she desperately…

  • Helping cry

    A little girl was late coming home for supper. Her mother made the expected irate parent’s demand to know where she had been. The little girl replied that she had stopped to…