Amazing Indian - Uma Venkatachalam

22-year-old Jayavel Chinnaiah says he still remembers how he lay as a toddler on the sidewalks of a busy road on Chennai's suburbs where his mother waded through raging motorists begging for money many years ago. 

But those hazy pictures from his past are now being replaced with hopes of a bright future. Jayavel has just one more on-campus examination to clear for enrolment in an automotive engineering course in Italy's Politecnico Di Torino. 

He is in Chennai awaiting financial aid from those who had shaped his life so far -from the time he was taken off the foot path to the day he is looking to head for a course in his dream subject. 

"I want to finish my course, get a good job, earn money to repay my loans, build a house for my mother and then get into the Indian Administrative Service to do service to this nation," says Jayavel in a rush as if he is listing out provisions from a shopping list. 

Full Story >> Economic Times 

90 years young Padma Vibhushan Dr. V Shanta

90 years young and focussed, Dr. V Shanta, grand niece of renowned scientist, Shri C V Raman, is doing amazing work in ensuring cancer treatment is made affordable to all citizens of India and world.

Dr. V. Shanta, is the chairperson of Cancer Institute at Adyar, Chennai.

She regularly inspires and tell her patients not to get worried and frightened of cancer. And like any other diseases, cancer is curable and can be treated with medicines and diet.

Dr. V Shanta, first joined as a RMO (Resident Medical Officer) at Adyar Cancer Institute and have been working for last 61 years and is now the Chairperson of this institute.

Even at age 90, she is active, focussed and passionate to ensure that all her patients are taken care of and get the best treatment.

Please Google and YouTube her for more information. If you like this short article, please share it with your friends. Let's build a positive and better world.

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Nobel Peace Prize 2011 - Ms. Ellen Sirleaf

Ellen Johnson Sirleaf (Born 29 Oct 1938), age 79, is a Liberian politician, and Nobel Peace Prize 2011 winner. She is 24th and current President of Liberia since 2006.

Ellen is often referred as "Iron Lady of Liberia" for her strong will and political persistence, and is Africa's first democratically elected female leader. Her political path has not been an easy one and she was imprisoned in 1980's for criticizing government policies in Liberia.

In her book, This Child will be great, she writes - If asked to describe my homeland in one sentence, I may say something like this: Liberia is a wonderful, beautiful, mixed up country, struggling mightily to find itself.

Given more space, however, I would certainly elaborate.

Liberia is some 43,000 square miles of lush, well-watered land on the bulge of West Africa, a country slightly larger than the state of Ohio, a lilliputian nation with a giant history. It has a population of 3.5 million people from some sixteen ethnic groups speaking some sixteen indigenous languages plus English. It has never known hurricanes, tornadoes, earthquakes, droughts, or other natural disasters, only the occasional flood and the more frequent havoc wreaked by man. Liberia is complicated. To paraphrase Winston Churchill, Liberia is a conundrum wrapped in complexity and stuffed inside a paradox. Then again, it was born that way.

In 2011 - She won Nobel Peace Prize for her relentless efforts to bring peace, prosperity and progress for Liberia.

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Want to make your child genius ? Play chess with your child !

Every parents want their child to become a genius. They want their child to think creatively and logically. Alongwith sports, exercise and nutritious food, try playing CHESS with your child.

Here are top benefits of playing CHESS with your child :

1) It develops healthy relation between parents and child.

2) It helps to develop logic (left brain) and creativity (right brain).

3) When CHESS is played on regular basis, it helps to develop concentration.

4) CHESS helps to develop problem solving skills.

5) It improves memory.

6) Child learns to think short term and long term.

7) Strategic thinking improves over a period of time.

8) A good exercise for brain and can help in Alzheimer's condition

    for senior citizens.

9) It also helps to develop intuition.

10) Children learn to think fast and correct.

So - if you are motivated enough, teach your kids this wonderful game and encourage others as well to play this game on regular basis.

Stay Happy and Stay Motivated.

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Story of Saloni Malhotra (Desi Crew)

Saloni Malhotra (Founder - DesiCrew)

Saloni Malhotra is polite, petite and soft-spoken. In fact, she looks like she might still be in college.

"It is a problem sometimes," she admits. "People in this industry are expected to have some white hair - it gives confidence to the client ! She sometimes laugh off.

Saloni Malhotra is the founder and CEO of DesiCrew, an IT enabled services company, that provide back office and support services in rural part of Tamil Nadu and Karnataka.

After doing engineering from Pune Universtity and working with interactive media startup Web Chutney, based out of Delhi, she came in contact with Prof. Jhunjhunwala of TeNet group, IIT Madras and came up with idea of Desi Crew.

Desi Crew started with an objective to setup rural BPO's in Tier 2 cities towns and villages, which will generate employment opportunities to backward unemployed youth in these towns and villages.

Initially, Desi Crew struggled with intial hiccups of starting a social enterprise, but today stands tall and successful giving employment to 400 plus youth in these villages of Karnataka and Tamil Nadu.

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Vikas Das - Engineer quits job to work with tribals

VAT VRIKSHA (Sanskrit word for Banyan Tree), an social enterprise started by Vikas Das, who left high paying engineering job to do something meaningful in life and create a positive impact on lives of tribal community struggling to live a dignified life.

Vat Vriksha helps tribal women with almost zero formal education to design and run small enterprises.

At age 28, after working long hours from cubicle of MNC, he was wondering whether he is going to repeat this schedule his entire life making MNCs richer and richer. After deep introspection and self analysis, he decided to finally quit his comfortable high paying job and decided to work with tribals.

A trip back to Bhubaneshwar decided what he will ultimately do with his life.

Vikas decided to dedicate his life for upliftment of tribal areas in naxalite infested areas like Chhatisgarh, Jharkhand and West Bengal.

His social enterprise Vat Vriksha is based on concept of Vasudhev Kutumbhakam, which means, the whole universe is my family. He recalls an incident from childhood, when tribals were not allowed to enter temple as they were considered inferior and impure. This hurted him a lot and he decided to do something about it when he grows up.

Vat Vriksha is built on solid foundation of ethics and integrity to provide dignified life to tribals in a way of basic education and entrepreneurship !

Please google Vikas Das Vat Vriksha for more information on his work.

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Telepathy - A technical possibilty

Article - Sudhir Pai

TELEPATHY.
For many years, people were struggling and researching on ESP (Extra sensory perception) phenomenon.

But thanks to Mark Zuckerberg, ESP has become a technical possibility with FaceBook.

READ MINDS
Just go through last 25 posts of a person and we can easily predict future behaviour. And FB can access anyone's mind.

COLLECTIVE HYPNOTISM
Through mass posting and trending hashtags, social media can actually hypnotize an individual or group.

THOUGHT TRANSFER
FB messenger and tagging can help a person to transfer thought to an individual or group.

As I believe - Let's positively use this technology for upliftment of consciousness and collective evolution, growth and prosperity. And many such technology awaits humanity and we should responsibly use it for collective growth, peace, prosperity and happiness !

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10 Interesting facts about beloved Shirdi Sai Baba

We all have heard about Shirdi Sai Baba and his miracles. Today, I am going to type down some interesting facts which I have heard and read.

1) Sudhir Dalvi who palyed role of Shirdi Sai Baba in film in 1977 instantly

    became a household name and people actually started worshipping him.

2) Jackie Shroff gave up smoking and drinking when he was to play role of Sai

    Baba in one of his films.

3) Sabka Maalik Ek - Simplest message given by baba to humanity.

4) Shraddha aur Saburi - Another beautiful message.

5) K V Ramani, co-founder NASSCOM, donated Rs.110 crore to Sai trust to build
    a ashram which can accommodate 15,000 devotees.

6) Sai Baba's teaching were simple and could be understood by common man.

7) He performed many miracles in his lifetime.

8) Devotees experience miracles even today.

9) He used to stay in simple house called Dwarka Mai (Hindu way) and used to

    chant Allah Maalik (Muslim way)

10) There are more than 50,000 small and big Sai Baba temples across world.

Om Sai Ram !

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How to deal with a difficult boss?

Article - Sudhir Pai

Are you one of those, who feel that your boss is very difficult to handle? You do everything in best possible way, work really hard but your boss is never happy and many times shouts at you or insults you in front of other colleagues.

Chill. Take a cup of warm or cold coffee and keep reading below article. We are going to discuss today how to manage and deal with difficult boss?

Let's start.

Observe your boss for a few days with a neutral frame of mind. Regular meditation can help you to develop a cool and neutral mindset. Understand your boss and his or her priorities. Listen to what he or she says very carefully. Try to listen to what is unsaid.

Try to understand that your boss may be a very good person in personal life but targets and deadlines can put huge pressure on him or her and that work pressure can get transferred down on subordinates.

Art of managing boss is more often art of managing the pressure downloaded by the boss. And to manage the pressure, one needs to be in cool frame of mind. Trust me folks, regular deep breathing and meditation helps to develop this cool mind.

Documentation plays an important role in managing boss's expectations. During meetings with our superiors, make a note of everything in bulleted points. After meeting, email minutes of meeting to your boss and colleagues to ensure whole team is on same page. and get assign off from your boss. On regular intervals, send him status of work allotted with deadlines and tasks completed. This will ensure, that boss is updated on regular basis of work status. Also ask for feedback and inputs from boss about the progress of work.

Open and regular communication is the way to develop and strengthen relationship with your boss and colleagues.

I hope this article has helped you to get clarity on How to deal with difficult boss?

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Ms. Clover Moore on Solar Energy

Source : thestoryexchange.org

The Australian Mayor tells us about an increasingly hot Sydney, the urgent need to hit the brakes on catastrophic climatic change and how her city is thriving.

She became mayor of Sydney in 2004 and her first priority was to deal with environmental issues, global warming and harnessing solar energy.

To read full article click >> Clover Moore

Life of Radhanath Swami

Radhanath Swami (Richard Slavin) was born in comforts of Chicago (USA). As a teenager, he embarked on a fascinating journey of hitch-hiking the world in search of self discovery and spirituality that ultimately led him to join ISKCON (International Society of Krishna Consciousness)

During 1960s and 1970s, there was a general disillusionment amongst European and American youth about society and materialistic pleasure and hippie movement started where unfortunately many young folks got trapped in drugs, rock and roll and sex.

 

Something similar was happening to Richard Slavin. He was young. He was confused. And he left home, leaving behind his family and comforts of US life and started spiritual journey.

Growing up in Chicago, he was restless and had plenty reason to be unhappy. Civil unrest, Vietnam war and general aversion to trappings of material life.

He wanted to be free. He wanted to experience freedom and liberation.

In his book, The Journey Home, he gives colourful details of his spiritual journey from Chichago suburubs to caves of Himalayas. he gives an intimate account of the steps to self-awareness and also a penetrating glimpse various mystic traditions across the world like Arabia, Rome, Greek and finally he lands into India.

His spiritual journey ends with becoming an ISKCON sanyasi and now heads the organization and run food program for underpriviledged kids by name of Akshay Patra where around 1.6 million school kids are fed with nutritious meals on daily basis.

Hare Krishna !

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The happiest man on earth - Matthieu Ricard

Matthieu Ricard is a French writer and a Buddhist monk, who resides at Shechen Tennyi Dargyeling Monastery in Nepal and is been declared as happiest person in the world.

Ricard is a PhD in molecular biology from Pasteur Institute under French Nobel Laureate Francois Jacob. In 1972, Ricard decided to become a Tibetan Monk. He came to India and started studying Buddhism under master Kangyur Rinpoche.

Ricard volunteered himself for a scientific laboratory experiments at University of Wisconsin and the scientists who performed experiments found his happiness levels way above other individuals.

Matthieu Ricard undergoing experiment.

Brain scans revealed that Matthieu Ricards brain had large capacity for joy and happiness thanks to his daily practice of meditation for last 45 years.

Neuroscientist Richard Davidson wired up monk's skull with 250 sensors at university of Wisconsin as a part of research on various people with and without meditation practice.

The scans showed, that when meditating on compassion and peace, Ricard's brain produced high levels of gamma waves, those which gave joy and happiness were found in pre frontal cortex.

Daily 20 minutes of meditation for 21 days results in better memory, concentration and happiness.

So - Meditate and Be Happy.

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Who is Rahul Dubey?

His name is Rahul Dubey and his dream is to build schools in every remote area of India, in all those small inaccessible parts where good education is only a dream for children and parents.

Growing up in a family of army, and then living in various cities of India and studying in good schools, he always wondered whether village children go this kind of quality education.

Rahul was working with ALFA as a volunteer and landed up in a small village, Karawara, Udaipur district, Rajasthan. He was unable to understand the local language but after staying there for 6 months, he realized the problems faced by villagers and children and after lot of soul searching decided to do something for them and people like them across India.

This is how his idea came into action with his unique school VILLAGE SPIRIT ACADEMY for rural kids run by rural youth where there is unique blend of tradional value with modern education.

Rahul is running this project on almost zero bank balance. He is avid movie buff, but has not seen a single movie in last 5 years.

Rahul has big plans to start such kind of schools in every remote part of India. Please google and youtube him for more details.

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Tawakkol Karman - Iron Lady of Yemen - Nobel Peace Prize 2011

Tawakkol Karman gained prominence in her country after 2005 in her roles as a Yemeni journalist and an advocate for a mobile phone news service denied a license in 2007.

As Yemen's multi-sided conflict grabs headlines with it's devastating human toll on life and properties, local activists continue to press for peace and democracy.

Tawakkol Karman, a winner of 2011 Nobel Peace Prize who is also know as "Mother of the Revolution" in Yemen for her positive impact as a journalist and women's rights advocate, offered hope and optimism in her war striven nation.

She started organizing and protesting for equal democratic rights for women in Yemen and slowly and steadily this movement spread across Middle East and North African nations.

Tawakkol Karman co-founded the human rights group Women Journalists Without Chains (WJWC) with seven other female journalists in 2005 in order to promote human rights, particularly freesom of opinion, expression and democratic rights.

She has received numerous threats and sometimes also temptations, but she stood her ground and is working continuously for democratic rights in Yemen.

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Farmer who became Teacher

70-year-old Keshav Saran began his career as a teacher in the Adult Education Centre of Kharadia village. Currently, 1,320 students are enrolled in the school, including 670 girls. Keshav who was a farmer was elected as the Pradhan of his village in 1988. Extremely dedicated towards the development of his village, he did not leave any stone unturned to reach officers who could help get all the amenities. However, he realized that had he been as educated as those officers, he would be able to accomplish a lot more. It became clear to him that education meant power.

He started off with five or six children but the word of mouth popularised the classes and within a span of few months, the strength of his class grew to 150. Encouraged by the response, he developed the 'chaupal' classes into a formal school, built on his 4 acres of agricultural land in 1975 which also received a junior high school recognition.

His son and daughter, both qualified teachers, were also involved in the initiative. With 21 other teaching staff members, the school received recognition of an inter college in 2009.

As a tribute to the long years of Saran's struggle and dedication, it was named Keshav Inter College.

Keshav’s son, Arun Kumar, and his daughter-in-law, Krishna, also help him run the college. The school has 21 teaching and staff members but the Sarans still charge a minimal fee to the students.

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Goonj - Anshu Gupta

Article - Sudhir Pai

Anshu Gupta is an Indian social entrepreneur who founded Goonj, a Delhi-based non-governmental organisation that positions under-utilised clothes from urban areas to rural areas. He won Ramon Magsaysay Award in 2015 for his genuine effort of clothing the poor via his NGO Goonj.

After completing his studies he joined corporate sector. But was completely disillusioned by the rat race and selfish attitude. He wanted to give back something to the society. So ultimately in 1998, he left Escorts as Manager, Corporate Communication in 1998 to work full time on his idea of social work.

Goonj, his dream for many years, was set up in the same year. From collecting clothes from his own house and friends and then distributing them on the roads in the chilly winter nights of Delhi, his dream has come a long way.

Under Goonj's flagship 'Cloth for Work' initiative village communities across India work on their own issues and get the urban clothes and materials as a reward for their efforts.

Anshu was quoted saying - We promote the idea of cloth-for-work where people who do work are rewarded with material. There is a sense of dignity in this.

To know more visit : www.goonj.org


Sudhir Pai is an motivational speaker, success coach and author of 2 books (Think Like A Winner and Live Your Dreams) 

He is an Electronics engineer by qualification and has worked with organization like Jetking Infotrain, ICICI Bank, Kotak Direct and Motilal Oswal Securities.

He can be contacted on 9820073993 (India). We would like to spread positive news and articles. All types of monetary support welcome to strengthen our movement.

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Madhav Chavan ( Founder - Pratham )

Let us meet an Amazing Indian - Madhav Chavan.

Madhav Chavan is a social activist and entrepreneur. He is the co-founder and CEO of the educational non-profit, Pratham.

Pratham is an innovative learning organization created to improve the quality of education in India. As one of the largest non-governmental organizations in the country, Pratham focusses on high-quality, low-cost education system for children in the slums of Mumbai.

What one is trained to do, what one plans to do, and what one actually ends up doing can be radically different and Madhav Chavan's life is shining example of that. After spending 8 years in USA in late 1970s, Chavan was drawn back to India for a bigger and nobler vision in field of education.

He started teaching at the University of Mumbai's Department of Chemical Technology and at same time got involved in imparting education to slum children.

Over a period of time Madhav Chavan decided to quit teaching profession at University and get full time with his NGO work. He partnered with UNICEF and at around same time he also got support from big names in Indian industry like ex-banker and philantrophist Narayanan Vaghul. The Birlas, the Piramals, and Reliance all did their bit.

And Pratham was born. And as of today Pratham is spreading light of knowledge in underpriviledged society.

Pratham Website - www.pratham.org

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What is Love ?

Article - Sudhir Pai

Love is like breathing.

People are frustrated in their love experiences, because they want to hold it tight and actually forget about it's real essence.

When love is external - it is limited.

When love is internal - it is infinite.

When we try to find love outside, it is a temporary experience with high chance of leading to frustration.

Instead of finding love, become an ocean of love. Start loving yourself without judgement. Love every moment. Love every cell in your body.

Love the trees. Love the animals around. Love those rivers. Love those mountains. Love those butterfly.

Love every atom in universe.

This is one of the way to merge with cosmic oneness.

Just ask yourself - Can I become love infinite ?

Satyam Shivam Sundaram ( Truth, Love, Bliss ) is our inherent nature.

So - Don't wait for love.

Become Love.

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Free Hugs

Sometimes, a hug is all what we need.

Free hugs is a real life controversial story of Juan Mann, A man whos sole mission was to reach out and hug a stranger to brighten up their lives. In this age of social disconnectivity and lack of human contact, the effects of the Free Hugs campaign became phenomenal. As this symbol of human hope spread accross the city, police and officials ordered the Free Hugs campaign BANNED. What we then witness is the true spirit of humanity come together in what can only be described as awe inspiring

Continue reading  >>>  Free Hugs

World Hunger

Feed an Hungry / Underpriviledged child wherever & whenever possible

Every year, authors, journalists, teachers, researchers, schoolchildren and students ask  for statistics about hunger and malnutrition. To help answer these questions, WFP ( World Food Programme powered by UN ( United Nations ) compiled a database of useful facts and figures on world hunger .

• 925 million people do not have enough to eat - more than the populations of USA, Canada and the European Union;
  (Source: FAO news release, 14 September 2010)
• 98 percent of the world's hungry live in developing countries;
  (Source: FAO news release, 2010)
• Asia and the Pacific region is home to over half the world’s population and nearly two thirds of the world’s hungry people;
  (Source: FAO news release, 2010)
• Women make up a little over half of the world's population, but they account for over 60 percent of the world’s hungry.
  (Source:  Strengthening efforts to eradicate hunger..., ECOSOC, 2007)
• 65 percent  of the world's hungry live in only seven countries: India, China, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Bangladesh, Indonesia, Pakistan and Ethiopia.
  (Source: FAO news release, 2010)

To read more click >>> World Hunger