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Motivational Stories from various Sources

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Motivational Stories from various Sources


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ஒரு முதியவர் ஒரு.. ஹோட்டலுக்கு சாப்பிட சென்றார்..! வெயிலில் வந்த களைப்பு.. அவர் முகத்தில் தெரிந்தது..! அவர் அங்கு ஓர் இடத்தில் அமர்ந்து சர்வரை.. அழைத்து கேட்டார்..! " தம்பி இங்கு சாப்பாடு என்ன விலை..! என்று..!
அதற்கு சர்வர் "50 ரூபாய்" என்றான்..!

பெரியவர் தனது சட்டை பைக்குள்.. கை விட்டு பார்த்து சர்வரிடம் கேட்டார்.. "தம்பி அதற்கும் சற்று.. குறைவாக சாப்பாடு கிடைக்காதா.."?


சர்வர் கோபமாக "யோவ் ஏன்யா இங்க வந்து எங்க உயிர எடுக்கிறிங்க..
இதை விட மலிவான ஹோட்டல் எவ்வளவோ.. இருக்கு அங்க போய் தொலைங்கயா..? என்றான்..!
பெரியவர் சொன்னார்.. "தம்பி தெரியாமல் இங்கு வந்துவிட்டேன்..
வெளியே வெயில் வேறு..அதிகமா இருக்கு.. நான் இனி வேறு ஹோட்டலுக்கு செல்வது சற்று சிரமம்..! என்றார்..!
சர்வர்.. சரி..சரி எவ்ளோ பணம் குறைவா வச்சுயிருக்க..! என்று கேட்டான்..!
பெரியவர் என்னிடம் 45 ரூபாய் தான் இருக்கிறது..! என்றார்..!
சர்வர் சரி..தருகிறேன் ஆனால் உனக்கு தயிர் இல்லை சரியா..? என்றான்..!
பெரியவர் 'சரி' என சம்மதித்தார்..!


சாப்பாடு கொடுத்தான்..! பெரியவர் சாப்பிட்டு விட்டு அந்த சர்வரிடம் 50 ரூபாய் கொடுத்தார்..!
சர்வர் மேலும் கோபம் ஆனான்..

"யோவ் இந்தாதானேயா 50 ரூபாய் வச்சுயிருக்க..! 45 ரூபாய் தான் இருக்கு'னு சொன்ன..? ஓ.. வெற்றிலை.. பாக்கு வாங்குறதுக்கு 5 ரூபாய் தேவைப்படுதா..? இந்தா..மீதி 5 ரூபாய்..! என்று மீதியை கொடுத்தான்..!


பெரியவர் சொன்னார்.. வேண்டாம் தம்பி அது உனக்குத் தான்..! உனக்கு கொடுக்க என்னிடம் வேறு பணம் இல்லை..! என்று சொல்லிவிட்டு வெயிலில் நடந்து சென்றார்..! சர்வருக்கு கண்களில் நீர்.. ததும்பியது..!



நீதி;- யாரேனும் எந்த சூழ்நிலைகளில் எப்படி இருப்பார்கள்..என்று நமக்கு தெரியாது..! யாரையும் ஏளனமாக பார்ப்பதும்..பேசுவதும் தவறு..!!


http://motivationalstorys.blogspot.in/2014_08_01_archive.html

 
Rags to Rishes- Story of WhatsApp CEO Jan Koum

Rags to Rishes- Story of WhatsApp CEO Jan Koum

Jan Koum, CEO and co-founder of WhatsApp is a man who yearns for simplicity and is a firm believer in the significance of his actions. That’s why yesterday he packed his partners Brian Acton and Jim Goetz of Sequoia Venture Capitalists into his car and drove them for a few short blocks to a dilapidated building which once housed the offices of the North County Social Services in Mountain View, California.



It was there as a teenager, not long in the country after arriving with his mother from Kiev in the Ukraine, that Koum would wait patiently in line to collect the food stamps that they needed. Yesterday Jan was signing a completely different agreement, that of selling the company that he and Brian Acton had formed just four years previously to social media giants Facebook for the almost incomprehensible sum of $19 billion.


It is possible to say that Jan Koum’s life story is one of “rags to riches” yet the no-nonsense former Ukrainian staunchly defends his life in the country of his birth. Life for the Koum family that was far from luxurious, with simple surroundings, basic living conditions coupled with a constant and ongoing fear of the secret police who had extensive invasive powers and were never reluctant to use them , especially among members of the Jewish community.


It was for that reason, in 1992 when the gates to Jewish immigration from the former Soviet Union opened that the Koum family decided that life would be better for them in the United States. Jan was just 16 when he, his mother and his grandmother left a little village outside of Kiev to start a new life, with his father remaining behind with plants to follow on later.



By some quirk of fate, the Koums arrived in the town of Mountain View, situated in Santa Clara County, in the San Francisco Bay Area of California. At that time Mountain View was a pleasant little town which offered low cost affordable housing, where the Koums found themselves a compact two-bedroom apartment which they could afford to rent with the help of government assistance. Ironically, in later years, Mountain View and its surrounding areas grew to become a hotbed of


Things were tough for Jan Koum growing up in a new country, especially when he had to come together with the reality that his father would not be coming to live with the family in America, remaining in the Ukraine where he became ill and eventually passed away in 1997. Not long after they arrived in the United States his mother was diagnosed with cancer, to which she would eventually succumb in 2000. This new situation meant that she was unable to work to support her son and her ailing mother, and the family were forced to live off disability allowance.


These were difficult and testing times where Koum would recall his anger and frustration of being unable to contact his father and the rest of his family and friends that he had left behind in the Ukraine, other than through the telephone which was both extensive and not secure, and hoping that one day they would be a way for people from across the world to keep in touch with each other.


When Jan was eighteen, after completing high school in gaining considerable skills as a self-taught computer network engineer, he enrolled at San Jose State University helping to pay for his studies by moonlighting with global accountants Ernst & Young as a security tester. Once again fate was to play its hand in Koum’s future when he found himself assigned to the fledgeling search engine Yahoo, to inspect security levels at the company’s advertising system, working in conjunction with Brian Acton, one of Yahoo’s earliest employees. Acton recalls his first impressions of Koum being that he was quite a bit different from the other Ernst & Young employees, with a very no-nonsense style and an obviously inquisitive mind that asked leading questions.


Looking back, Koum admitted to feeling an immediate rapport with Acton, who had a similar no-nonsense approach to working. Six months later Koum also joined the team at Yahoo working as an infrastructure engineer, while still attending San Jose State University.


The particular arrangement was to last just two weeks when Yahoo suffered a systems breakdown and cofounder David Filo called Koum who was attending classes to come in and help out. It was then that Jan decided that it was either Yahoo or University and Yahoo won out.


Koum and Acton were to remain colleagues at Yahoo for nine years, during which time a firm friendship grew up as well as understanding that the mark that they actually wanted to make in the rapidly developing social media world, which was very far removed from where Yahoo were heading.

In September of 2007 Koum and Acton left Yahoo, taking a year out to see some sites, traveling particularly around South America. On their return to the United States, the pair individually applied for jobs at Facebook and later on at Twitter, where ironically their applications were both rejected. Someone, at least in Facebook’s personnel department, is liable to be receiving the memo, probably from Mark Zuckerberg himself, about how they let Koum and Acton slip through

Koum who was living off his considerable savings that he had earned during his time at Yahoo, recalls having a breakthrough in early 2009, after he bought his first iPhone and visited one of the first App Stores to open, and discovered that there was a completely new industry springing up for iPhone compatible applications or apps as they have now become universally known. Jan recalled his early frustrations at being unable to make low-cost no-frills contact and decided that he would develop an app of his own that would make this possible.


After making a tentative start on his own Jan convinced Brian Acton to join him as co-founder of the company, where one of their first and most important management decisions being, no matter what the new application, to be called WhatsApp would never accept any form of advertising revenue.


To get the project off the ground Acton succeeded in securing sufficient seed funding, and WhatsApp, an ultra-simple messaging app became a reality, to be marketed through Apple’s recently opened App Store.


Once again significance was to play its part with the company being registered on Jan Koum’s 33[SUP]rd[/SUP] birthday on Feb. 24, 2009, not that far away from where he used to queue up for food stamps in Mountain View, California.


Although from the outset, Koum and Acton planned to charge a token fee of one dollar annually to subscribe to their service, there were periods, especially in its early days, when WhatsApp was free of charge. It was only when the company succeeded in implementing the ability to transfer photographs and video that they began to charge on a more consistent basis for the service, although they also considered it prudent to discreetly seek out some additional venture capital choosing Jim Goetz, of Sequoia Capital to provide $50,000 in funding for WhatsApp, making him, in the process, the company’s only external board member.


Two years later in Feb. 2013, with a user base that had grown to around to about 200 million active users are highly strained engineer based staff of around 50 people, Acton and Koum felt the time was right look for stage B funding , with Sequoia agreeing to invest a further $50 million, on condition that was done in absolute secret.


Today Jan Koum is 37 years old, one of the wealthiest men in the social media industry ,yet still looking back, in a positive light, on the simple life that he had in the Ukraine and how his vision of instant simple messaging has changed the life of hundreds of millions.
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http://jewishbusinessnews.com/2014/02/20/whatsapp-jan-koum-the-story-of-a-man-who-kept-it-simple/
 
Village in India plants 111 trees every time a girl is born

Village in India plants 111 trees every time a girl is born

April 12, 2013

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All too often, it seems that an increase in human population must come at a cost to the environment, like in straining resources and encroachment on once wild habitats. But one quaint village in India has adopted a wonderfully eco-conscious tradition that is actually helping to ensure a greener future with each new generation.


While in some parts of India, many expectant parents still say they'd prefer bearing sons, members of the Piplantri village, in the western state of Rajasthan, are breaking this trend by celebrating the birth of each baby girl in way that benefits everyone. For every female child that's born, the community gathers to plant 111 fruit trees in her honor in the village common.


This unique tradition was first suggested by the village's former leader, Shyam Sundar Paliwal, in honor of his daughter who had passed away at a young age.


But planting trees is only one way that the community is ensuring a brighter future for their daughters. According to a report in The Hindu, villagers also pool together around $380 dollars for every new baby girl and deposited in an account for her. The girl's parents are required to contribute $180, and to make a pledge to be considerate guardians.


“We make these parents sign an affidavit promising that they would not marry her off before the legal age, send her to school regularly and take care of the trees planted in her name,” says Paliwal.


Over the last six years alone, as population there has increased, villagers in Piplantri have planted nearly a quarter million trees -- a welcoming forest for the community's youngest members, offering a bit of shade for their brighter future.
Via The Hindu

http://www.treehugger.com/sustainab...ants-111-trees-every-time-baby-girl-born.html
 
Muslim Pilot Adopts Kids Of His Hindu Friend After His Death.

Muslim Pilot Adopts Kids Of His Hindu Friend After His Death.

June 27, 2015


In a city where police and judges often come across brutal crimes done in the name of property or inheritance, a Muslim couple's bid to raise two Hindu orphans has earned praise from the Delhi high court. Moved by what it termed a "noble endeavour", the HC recently appointed Mohd Shahnawaz Zaheer, a commercial pilot, as the guardian of twins Ayush and Prarthana under the Hindu Minority & Guardianship Act.

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The decision set a new precedent in Indian Law

In his landmark order allowing cross-religion guardianship, Justice Najmi Waziri also approved a Trust set up in the name of the siblings, where the Indian Commercial Pilots Association and other well-wishers have contributed over Rs 1 crore. By virtue, the entire estate and remaining wealth of the dead parents will automatically go to the Trust and not to the guardian.


When reporters visited the Zaheer household earlier this week, it found the twins bonding well with the family. Zaheer said, "The HC order streamlined everything to allow the twins to integrate with us. I have a three-storey house and my in-laws and parents live with me. Ayush and Prarthana are the cynosure of their eyes. Since the court appointed me as guardian, now they will get a passport and can travel abroad with us."


Zaheer also disclosed how the court has entrusted one Arun Saini, a willing neighbour, to make sure the children receive Hindu religious instructions and can visit temple for prayers. "I don't want them to ever convert. They will be raised as Hindus," he said.

Twins lost both parents in 2012

The twins lost their airhostess mother and pilot father within a year's time in 2012 and were at the mercy of the family driver who took care of their basic needs. Though their father Praveen Dayal extracted a promise from Zaheer that he will take care of the twins, the latter remained unsure as cousins and distant relatives of Dayals allegedly laid claim to bank accounts and family property.

Mistreatment from relatives made them approach Zaheer

A hectic flying schedule kept Zaheer busy till he got a call from the sobbing kids complaining of maltreatment. Zaheer then filed a suit under the Guardianship Act, urging the court to give legal approval to his role as a guardian.


In his plea, Zaheer informed HC that during the critical phase of his illness, Praveen Dayal requested him to take care of the children. He also placed on record a statement by Dayal's brother saying he has full faith in Zaheer for discharging the duty of guardianship of the children. With their maternal uncle and grandmother also settled abroad and expressing helplessness, the twins had nowhere to turn to, Zaheer pointed out.

How the court saw it

"Poets and writers of different literatures have elegantly articulated and eulogized the principle of foster care and guardianship amongst the foremost and finest human duties. The essence of human endeavour is caring for innocent lives," Justice Waziri observed, quoting poets Nida Fazli and Javed Akhtar to stress that "taking care of orphaned children who are in urgent need of foster care and the protection of their interests is amongst the noblest of human endeavours."

The court also took note that all the monies to which the children are entitled is to be kept in the "Aayush Prarthana Benevolent Trust" till they attain the age of 25 years. "It is, therefore, directed that all banks, financial institutions and insurance companies shall make all payments, maturity or redemption amounts, etc apropos the estate of late Praveen Dayal and late Kavita Dayal in the name of Aayush Prarthana Benevolent Trust."

A victory of Cross-religion relations

Advocate Yogesh Jagiya, who fought the case free of cost, viewed it as an unprecedented order. "It was a cross-religion matter. There have been cases of adoption but not of guardianship where you only raise the children but have no rights in their property. We worked hard to convince the court."
Enrolled in a top public school in Delhi, Ayush says he wants to become a pilot while his sister wants to be a designer.


(Originally published in The Times Of India)


http://www.indiatimes.com/news/indi...death-now-this-is-true-friendship-234102.html
 
Great post PJji.


On a lighter note.
Do not tell that in Shaksh Maharaj circles. They will claim that those children lost their culture, and Hinduism lost 2 (twooooooooo). Then they will organize a Ghar Vapasi for those 2 to a anathashram.
 
9 Female Adventurers who Conquered the Highest Mountains and Deepest Oceans -

9 Female Adventurers who Conquered the Highest Mountains and Deepest Oceans -

June 29, 2015

Meet 9 incredible female adventurers of India who have climbed some of the highest peaks of the world and achieved some of the most daring feats. They are an inspiration to us all and we salute their never-say-die spirit! -


1. Bachendri Pal



Bachendri Pal

Source : www.wikinetforum.com

Bachendri Pal is a mountaineer who made history by becoming the first Indian woman to reach the summit of Mount Everest in 1984. She realised she wanted to be a mountaineer at the age of twelve, when she along with her friends scaled a 13,123 ft mountain on a school picnic. From that time on, she knew her future lay in scaling the highest of mountains. She bagged several awards during her mountaineering career, including the Padmashree and the Arjuna awards which she received in the years 1985 and 1986 respectively. By continuously reaching new heights in her career, Bachendri Pal proved that all women can achieve success in any field they choose to pursue.


2. Arunima Sinha




Indian mountaineer Arunima Sinha, who had her leg amputated below the left knee two years ago gestures during a press conference in Kathmandu on May 28, 2013. Twenty-six year old Sinha from the northern state of Uttar Pradesh, who lost her leg after she was thrown from a moving train two years ago, became the first female amputee to climb Everest on May 21. AFP PHOTO/ Prakash MATHEMA (Photo credit should read PRAKASH MATHEMA/AFP/Getty Images)

Arunima Sinha is a woman of substance who deserves all the praise and recognition we can give her. She is the first female amputee to climb Mount Everest. The former national volleyball player lost her leg when she was pushed out of a train by thieves who wanted to snatch her bag and gold chain. She fell onto the railway track and another train ran over her, crushing her leg below the knee. She was rushed to the hospital, where she had to undergo a leg amputation in order to save her life. Refusing to succumb to her disability or feel sorry for herself, the determined young woman excelled in a basic mountaineering course she decided to take. She was determined to climb Everest with the help of her prosthetic leg and she did!


After the climb, she wrote a book titled “Born Again on the Mountain” recounting the incident. She was awarded the Padmashree in 2015. She is an inspiration for all women to overcome whatever obstacles they face and achieve their dreams. You can see her inspiring speech about her struggle and journey here:

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3. Bhakti Sharma



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Bhakti Sharma, an Indian open swimmer, set a world record after swimming 1.4 miles in 52 minutes in the freezing waters of the Antarctic ocean (at a temperature of 1°C). She became the youngest and first Asian girl to achieve this success. Bhakti has been pursuing open water swimming for the past ten years. She has swum across four oceans, eight channels and seas (which is also a world record). She was awarded the Tenzing Norgay National Award.


4. Arati Saha




Arati Saha

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Arati Saha became the first Indian woman to swim across the English Channel on the 29th of September, 1959. She set a new record by swimming 42 miles in 16 hours 20 minutes, becoming the first and fastest Asian woman to swim across the English Channel. Even as a child, Arati was interested in swimming. She won 22 state competitions, introducing a new All-India record. She died of jaundice in 1994 and the Indian Government issued a stamp in her memory after her death. To this day, she remains an inspiration to young women, arousing a new interest in swimming and inspiring them to join the sport and bring laurels to the country.


5. Premlata Agarwal




Premlata Agarwal

Source: www.erewise.com

Another Indian woman who manages to astonish us all with her extraordinary feats is Premlata Agarwal. Premlata was married at a young age and only became interested in mountaineering at the age of 35. After meeting Bachendri Pal, she decided that she wanted to participate in adventure sports and took a basic mountaineering course. In 2011, she climbed Mount Everest and in the subsequent years, conquered the top peaks of the seven continents, popularly called the ‘seven summits’, (Aconcagua in South America, Everest in Asia, McKinley in North America, Kilimanjaro in Africa, Elbrus in Europe, Vinson in Antarctica, Kosciuszko in Australia) – becoming the oldest woman, at age 48, to do so.


6. Krushnaa Patil




Krushnaa Patil

Source: wikepedia.org

In May 2009, Krushnaa Patil became the youngest woman to successfully climb Mount Everest at the age of 19. Patil is also the first Indian woman to have climbed the highest peaks in Antarctica, South America and Europe. She has also climbed six of the highest peaks in the seven continents (the seven summits). She is not only a mountaineer, but also an enthusiastic cyclist. She was a part of a cycling rally with WANI (Women’s Adventure Network of India) from Kolkata to Kanyakumari (3000km). She is also pursuing her MBA from Pune University while simultaneously keeping her passion in adventuring alive by remaining involved in courageous activities such as rafting, paragliding, rowing and horse riding.

7. Dicky Dolma





Dicky Dolma

source: www.boloji.com

Dicky Dolma was added to the list of females who successfully scaled Everest in 1984. She has been interested in adventurous activities from childhood, her favourite pastime being skiing. She won a scholarship for a basic skiing course which her family declined as they didn’t approve of her missing so much school. It was not until one of the senior skiing instructors at the Skiing and Mountaineering Institute in Manali wrote a letter to Dolma’s parents did they agree to let her pursue her adventurous passions. After completing the institute’s skiing course, she underwent the basic mountaineering course. She is the only climber to have successfully scaled the peak of Everest without completing an advanced course in mountaineering.


8. Reena Kaushal Dharmashaktu





Reena Kaushal Dharmashaktu

Source: www.indiaspeakersbureau.in

A freelance outdoor and mountaineering instructor based in Dehli, Reena Kaushal Dharmashaktu became the first Indian woman to ski all the way to the South Pole. The Kapersky Commonwealth Antarctic Expedition consisted of 8 women from the commonwealth countries, including Reena who represented India. The women faced blizzards and freezing temperatures below -30°C but continued skiing consistently for over 900 km across Antarctica to reach the geographic South Pole. Reena arrived at the trademark mirror ball (ceremonial South Pole) near midnight on the 30th of December, 2009.
9. Archana Sardana




Archana Sardana

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Archana Sardana is the first Indian civilian base jumper and skydiver. She has made over 300 skydives, 60 underwater dives and several BASE dives all over the world. She had a very protected childhood, and her passion for adventuring was ignited later in life. Her first exposure to any kind of physical activity was a walkathon she participated in with her husband. After that, she’s never looked back and has been addicted to adventure ever since. She is now a certified skydiver, bungee jumper, BASE jumper, mountaineer and scuba diver. Her next ambition is to jump off Mount Everest and the Pitambara tower in Delhi!

What an inspiration all these women are to all of humankind! Each one has braved adversity, discrimination, and many obstacles before they could achieve their dreams. Their stories have a common lesson for all of us: if we have a dream, a passion – pursue it with single-minded devotion. And yes – never, never give up!!


http://www.thebetterindia.com/24727/indian-female-adventurers/
 
Dear P J Sir,

I was glad to see your thread titled
Motivational Stories from various Sources

But again you are back to your original style of opening a thread for each episode!

Why not compile them all in the above thread, since you take these from various sources?


Requested Moderators to move this thread and also another thread to Motivational Stories from various Sources



Very rarely i get any reply to my posts in various fields like Mahaperiyava. Temples, Slokas, Web sources, Collection of musics, Upanyasams, Natural remedies, My Collections etc etc too.


So you want me to stop posting any threads there?


Also requested moderators to move two more Threads opened earlier to this folder

But how come you never complain opening many threads for Quotes by other members!!!






 
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It seemed like like a good story. But it is like Mandotharu having 100 Children. How many acres of land does the village have? How big are the tree saplings? How many girls have been born since this program? There are practical implications that seems to be ignored. If they planted that many trees they would run out of farm land. I suppose I am not as romantic as PJji. I am a realist.
 
Don’t chuck that food!

Don’t chuck that food!

June 21, 2015

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Padmanaban Gopalan is on a crusade to stop the colossal amounts of food people throw away every day


A determined young face stares back at me from the Pollination Project website and that is how I first learnt of Padmanaban Gopalan.


Earlier, a whatsapp forward had caught my attention with the words “no food waste” and a link. Young Padmanaban, I learnt, has been nominated as a visionary for 2015 by “Pollination Project”, California. The project gives seed grants to those who make a difference in their community.


On the 29th July 2015, Padmanaban Gopalan will be awarded the 1000th grant in appreciation for his work in providing food to those in need of it.


His name was proposed by Poornima Bhavesh, who has herself won the grant, when she was witness to his social service.


Padmanaban Gopalan’s motto is “Be the change that I want to see in the world”. In his 2nd year at college, he co-founded the green club at GCT.


After graduation, in 2014, he along with a few friends set up S.P.I.C.E (Society Promoting Innovation Creativity & Entrepreneurship).


Their objective was to encourage children to think out-of-the-box for a greener world. Padmanaban interacted with many schools in and around Coimbatore and it was then that he saw how much food children wasted. Tiffins were emptied into dustbins, food was flung at each other playfully or just left around carelessly.


He found out that each day 12 to 18 kgs of food were thrown into the garbage truck along with other school waste which made it almost impossible to segregate. He figured that one school with 1200 children had an average waste of 3875 kgs of ‘edible’ food in one year.

On World Food Day, Padmanaban decided to put his food management plan into action and registered the domain nofoodwaste.in.


His first awareness campaign was conducted at Carmel Garden School. The message was to try and make the school a ‘zero food waste campus’. He did a survey and conducted an audit.

Many other schools invited him to conduct similar audits.


Padmanaban soon noticed results. He knew for sure now that student-involved movement was definitely the way forward. Next, Padmanaban began to look at leftovers at hotels. He packed the uneaten food and gave it to the homeless. Then he turned his attention to the colossal waste at weddings.


In November 2014, he conducted an Awareness Marathon. He shared his mobile number and people were encouraged to call him in the event of excess leftovers. His first call to pick up food was at a reception at a private home. He carried three shopping bags full of food and distributed them to slum dwellers near the Government Hospital. As calls became more frequent, he and his friends Dinesh and Sudhakaran packed up food from kalayana mandapams.


When the numbers increased from 50 packets to 400, they had to figure out a different way of doing things. Volunteers were dwindling, packing leftovers was tiresome and they were unable to find enough homeless people to give 400 packets of food. They approached orphanages and ashrams, and finally, Fr. Xavier, at St. Joseph’s ITI Ashram, happily accepted the food procured by such hard work and dedication.


The team decided to borrow utensils from people in that area for easy distribution of food. This is the practice they follow today.


Padmanaban neighbours and many others generously lend him their vessels. They now supply frequently to 15 ashrams or orphanages. They carry out all this work on a two wheeler.


In order to streamline the work they are doing, Padmanaban has all the statistics on his computer and makes daily logs. Mid afternoon is usually when he gets calls about the availability of food. Anandhi bakery at SIDCO provides him with food regularly. Caterers from Perur, Mr. Hariharan and Mr. Suresh also help and put him in touch with many functions and happenings in the city. “Helping hands” at Kovaipudur also encourage his work. Padmanaban was invited to attend a leadership summit where he put down his vision on paper.


He thanks people such as Shobhana Kumar and Shankar Vanavarayar for encouraging him to read motivational pieces that helped him see his chosen path with clarity. Opportunities began to present themselves.


He met people who were eager to help with filming a documentary and formulating a web design. These were just what he needed to cement his vision.


Padmanaban Gopalan’s vision for 2015 is an India with zero food wastage. He wants to set up ‘Last minute shops’, where people who have excess food in their homes can sell it.


Padmanaban’s advice to reduce food waste could not be more simple:



There is only so much one can eat, so buy just what you require.


Look around your locality and share excess food with those who need it.


If you think you cannot use up food that is approaching its expiry date in time, give it to someone who will.


If you are eating out and there are leftovers, pack it up and give it to someone who is hungry.


Get children involved



Select five no-food waste ambassadors in each school
Get them to check the dustbin and send him a daily report
Suggest ways to bring down wastage. (Bring just what you can eat. If you have more share it with others. Keep dry food and wet food separately. Take leftovers back home.)


Get the kids to pledge: “In our school we have wasted 3500 kgs of food this year. I alone am responsible for 15 kgs. I promise to reduce, reuse and recycle.”


* PSG primary and nursery school set up three daily dumps to throw daily food waste. This was turned into compost by adding dry leaves and letting it decompose naturally.


* ABC Matric School at Avarampalayam uses grow bags into which they discard their food waste. They sprinkle it with compost accelerator to let it become manure.


“No food waste” needs volunteers. You can volunteer at 9629334185
No Food waste helpline is 90877 90877


http://www.thehindu.com/features/metroplus/padmanabhan-gopalan-and-no-food-waste/article7336815.ece
 
Inspiring children and even the old newspaper dealer to care for and help others -

Inspiring children and even the old newspaper dealer to care for and help others -

04 Jul 2015


Sridevi Ramesh grew up in a home where poor youth from nearby villages stayed with their family for months trying to build a career for themselves. They would arrive in their city to join coaching classes, typing institutes, or for doing a diploma course.

“We lived in Warangal (a city in Telangana) and at any given time some people would be staying with us at home.
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Sridevi with her team of young volunteers after collecting old newspapers from residents of an apartment in Chennai (Photos: H K Rajashekar)
“My mother would cook for them and they would live as part of our family as long as they stayed with us,” says Sridevi, who continues the family tradition of caring for the underprivileged in Chennai, where she has been living since her marriage to L S Ramesh, a musicologist, in 2003.

A resident of IIT Colony near Velacherry, she collects old newspapers from houses in the area, and uses the money from the sales to support a couple of orphanages in the city.

“We buy things that the orphanages need for their daily use, like a couple of bags of rice, depending upon the money we have in hand. A bag of rice would cost around Rs.1200,” says Sridevi, 36, who now has the support of many women and children in her neighbourhood.
At Kurunji Apartments in her colony, Jyothi, secretary of the residents association, helped her by sending a note to all the families in the apartment urging them to support Sridevi and donate their old newspapers to her.

“Isn’t she doing a great job,” remarks Jyothi, whose son Suhrith Sistla, a Class Five student at DAV Public School in Velacherry, helps in the collection of newspapers from homes in the apartment.

Encouraged by the impact of the project, and its benefit to orphanages, he plans to motivate his classmates and teachers at school to start a similar initiative in their neighbourhoods.

S Muruganandham, the local kabadiwala, is part of this simple initiative that has successfully involved the community for a social cause, and he visits the houses to collect the newspapers, which fetch a price of about Rs. 10 per kg.

While kabadiwalas are notorious for false weights and scales, he has vowed to be honest in his work.
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A resident of Kuruji Apartments cheerfully handing over the old newspapers to volunteers
“I have been working with Sridevi madam for the last three years. Since it is for a social cause, I don’t mind going that extra mile on my tricycle even to collect small quantities, which I normally don’t do for others. It gives me great satisfaction to be involved in this work,” says Muruganandham.

Sridevi has plans to involve schools and colleges in the project, while also trying to extend the project to more areas in the city. Recently, she introduced the scheme at Chettinad Enclave in Pallikaranai.

There was good response from the residents and they collected around 150 kilos of old newspapers in their first outing.

On an average, they collect around 250-300 kilos each month, but the quantity is expected to go up in coming months as they add new communities like Chettinad Enclave to the project.

This initiative is being promoted under the banner of FACES - acronym for Food, Aid, Clothing, Education, Shelter – and has already been introduced in Warangal and Bengaluru.

Sridevi’s husband, Ramesh, who is a senior executive at a shipping company, is a pillar of support to her. It was he who named their initiative FACES.

A musicologist, he developed a ‘music chakra,’ which is a self-help chart to learn Carnatic music on the keyboard. Priced at Rs.500, (US $50 outside India) it is sold online as well.
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Sridevi’s husband has been actively involved in FACES
The profit of Rs. 300 (it can be as high as Rs.3000 if it is shipped abroad) on each chart is donated to FACES.

“This is another way of raising funds for the orphanages. I am now working on a single sheet 25-year calendar, which also we plan to sell to raise funds for our projects,” says Ramesh.

At Bengaluru, one of Sridevi’s friends Revathi launched the newspaper project in their apartment in Amruthahalli two years ago. Several women and children in the apartment volunteer to collect the papers from the families.

They raise around Rs.2500-3000 each month and use the money to support a nearby orphanage for the blind.

“Sometimes we hand over the cash to the orphanage authorities. If we have the time, we try to find out about their requirements and buy them the things they need,” she says.

Sridevi’s father worked as a community health officer in the medical and health department of the Government of Andhra Pradesh.
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Revathi and her friends in Bengaluru with their collection
“He was a kind hearted man, and he was willing to open up his house to needy young men who had no money to find accommodation in a new town. I think I have inherited his qualities,” says Sridevi, who joined the NSS programme while she was doing her bachelor’s degree in commerce at Andhra Balika College in Warangal.

A trained Kuchipudi dancer, she had been a volunteer with Nehru Yuva Kendra Sangathan, a union ministry of youth affairs programme, before her marriage, and had worked in villages creating awareness on various social issues and providing the youth career guidance.

“My wish is that many more people who read this story should start doing what we are doing in their neighbourhood and support local orphanages,” she says.




-http://www.theweekendleader.com/Heroism/2195/caring-by-habit.html
 
A 22-Year Old is Making Love Blossom Between the Differently Abled Through an App -

A 22-Year Old is Making Love Blossom Between the Differently Abled Through an App

July 3, 2015


She is no middle-aged matchmaker doing the rounds of homes and arranging marriages. Instead, 22-year-old Kalyani Khona is a matchmaker with a special mission. Her Loveability app will help people with disabilities find their perfect life partners.

While most people her age were busy finishing college and figuring out what to do next, Kalyani was already ready with a plan at the age of 21. It wasn’t the usual route to a career, but an innovative plan that could change the lives of the differently-abled for good.

Having an immense interest in connecting with and meeting new people, Kalyani’s initial plan was to launch a regular matchmaking agency. But, even as she tried to find a niche for herself in the crowded marketplace of such agencies, Kalyani realized that due mainly to inaccessible infrastructure issues, there were very few places and opportunities for people with disabilities to meet and connect with new people.

This struck a chord and Kalyani changed her plan of launching a regular matrimonial agency to a platform for connecting people with disabilities.



Kalyani is now working to launch an app Loveability to make access to right partners easier for the differently abled.
“There are many initiatives working towards education, employment, mobility, etc., for differently-abled people, but I realized there is not enough importance given to finding right partners for people with disabilities. This is when I launched a matchmaking agency called Wanted Umbrella, which aims to provide a safe and innovative platform to every member joining us through curated events and group dinner meetings so that they can connect with like-minded people for the purpose of matrimony or otherwise.”

– Kalyani

According to a report published by the United Nations, about 80 million with disabilities live in India and out of these only five percent get married. This fact was shocking to Kalyani and she came up with the idea of launching an international mobile app that will reach out to over 200 million people with disabilities.

So, after a year of its inception, Wanted Umbrella is all set to launch this unique mobile app that will enable people with disabilities to meet other like-minded people and take the relationship forward if they are interested in the connection.

“After our initial research we observed that matchmaking among people with disabilities happens on an intellectual level or (on the basis of a) complementing impairment,” says Kalyani. Therefore, the Loveability team focused more on giving out personal information like medical condition, possibility of cure, level of independence, instruments used, work information, educational background, etc., and less on caste, religion or physical appearance. In India, most of the dating apps focus on appearance and rather than the personality of a person. We want to change that through our ‘exclusive’ app which is ‘inclusive’,” says Kalyani.



The app is also easily accessible to people with visual impairment. This takes place through ‘screen readers’, a software program that allows blind or visually impaired users to read text displayed on the computer screen with a speech synthesizer or Braille display.




The app focuses more on personal interests than looks. Users can make connections, edit their profiles, and send direct messages to the profiles they like.
“Working with other issues like water scarcity or polio might be relevant in one country but not in another. But disability is one issue that is present globally. Differently-abled persons everywhere face the same problem and we want to provide them resources to overcome some of their biggest challenges,” says Kalyani.

Loveability is not just an app. We want to use this platform to break stereotypes and give hope to differently-abled people. Sometimes they don’t even think about finding a partner as they don’t have enough resources, but the app will help them connect with like minded people who will understand them better,” adds Kalyani.

Loveability and Wanted Umbrella are for-profit entities. Users will be charged based on the number of connections they make.



Kalyani (right) was just 21 when she first started the initiative.

“It is not a charity. If I treat it like one, I won’t be able to take it across the world and it will get restricted to a few NGOs or people. I want people to know that this is very much a commercial app, just like any other for-profit model,” says Kalyani.

The road to success is never easy. Kalyani’s ambitions to be an entrepreneur also met with roadblocks.
“Initially it was hard to get people to believe that I was actually doing this. But when I received some media recognition, my family also started believing in me. And I am just 22 right now, I can experiment and I have ample time to make it work,” she says confidently.

In the future, Kalyani wants to include other social issues like widow remarriages, etc., in the spectrum of her work.
“The idea is to create a free world where people have the liberty to find the right partner, irrespective of their physical (or social) condition.”

– Kalyani

-http://www.thebetterindia.com/27604/making-love-blossom-for-differently-abled-mobile-
 
A 10-month-old baby has been rescued after floating a kilometre offshore

A 10-month-old baby has been rescued after floating a kilometre offshore


Incredible pictures have emerged of a baby being rescued from the open ocean after she floated a kilometre out to sea when her parents forgot they left her in the water.



The Turkish Coastguard was called into action today after beachgoers and the child's parents realised in horror that strong winds and ocean currents were swiftly pulling her towards Greece.



Kept alive only because she was sitting inside a child's flotation device, 10-month-old Melda Ilgin was pulled from the ocean when rescuers dived into the water to catch her.
 
கலெக்டர் ஆகிறார் கார் டிரைவர் மகள்: சத்த&#3007

கலெக்டர் ஆகிறார் கார் டிரைவர் மகள்: சத்தியமங்கலம் வான்மதி சாதனை

July 5, 2015



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ஐஏஎஸ் தேர்வில் 2 முறை நூலிழையில் வெற்றியை நழுவ விட்ட கார் டிரைவரின் மகள் 3-வது முயற்சியில் வெற்றி பெற்று சாதனை படைத்துள்ளார்.


ஈரோடு மாவட்டம் சத்திய மங்கலத்தைச் சேர்ந்தவர் சென்னி யப்பன் என்கிற ராஜா. கார் டிரைவர். இவரது மனைவி சுப்புலட்சுமி. இந்த தம்பதியரின் மகள் வான்மதி (வயது 26), சத்தியமங்கலம் அரசு மகளிர் மேல்நிலைப் பள்ளியில் பள்ளிப்படிப்பை முடித்துவிட்டு பண்ணாரி அம்மன் மகளிர் கல்லூரியில் பிஎஸ்சி கம்ப்யூட்டர் சயின்ஸ் படிப்பில் சேர்ந்தார். தனது தோழியின் தந்தையான கஸ்டம்ஸ் கண்காணிப்பாளரைப் பார்த்து தானும் ஐஏஎஸ் அதிகாரி ஆக வேண்டும் என்ற ஆசை வான்மதிக்கு துளிர்விட்டது. இதைத்தொடர்ந்து இவர் மேற்கொண்டு கோபி பிகேஆர் கலை கல்லூரியில் பகுதி நேரத்தில் எம்சிஏ படித்தார்.


இந்நிலையில் கல்பனா என்ற ரிசர்வ் வங்கி அதிகாரி மூலம் சென்னையில் தனியார் ஐஏஎஸ் பயிற்சி மையத்தில் சேர்ந்தார். தீவிர பயிற்சிக்குப் பிறகு கடந்த 2011-ம் ஆண்டு சிவில் சர்வீஸ் தேர்வெழுதினர். நேர்முகத்தேர்வு வரை சென்றவருக்கு வெற்றி கிடைக்கவில்லை. ஆனாலும், முயற்சியைக் கைவிடவில்லை.


2013-ம் ஆண்டு மீண்டும் தேர் வெழுதினார். முன்பு போலவே நேர்முகத்தேர்வு வரை சென்று நூலிழையில் வெற்றியை நழுவவிட் டார். இருப்பினும் வான்மதி மனம் தளரவில்லை. 3-வது முறையாக கடந்த ஆண்டு முயற்சி செய்தார். அவரது முயற்சிகளின் பலனாக, வெற்றிக்கனி கைகூடியுள்ளது. சிவில் சர்வீஸ் தேர்வில் அகில இந்திய அளவில் 152-வது ரேங்க் எடுத்து வான்மதி வெற்றி பெற்றுள்ளார்.


இதற்கிடையே, கடந்த ஆண்டு வங்கி அதிகாரி தேர்வெழுதியதில் வெற்றிபெற்று தற்போது ஈரோடு நம்பியூரில் இந்தியன் ஓவர்சீஸ் வங்கியில் உதவி மேலாளராக அவர் பணியாற்றி வருகிறார். சிவில் சர்வீசஸ் தேர்வில் வெற்றிபெற்றது குறித்து “தி இந்து”விடம் வான்மதி கூறியதாவது:-
கல்லூரியில் படிக்கும்போது தான் ஐஏஎஸ் ஆகவேண்டும் என்ற ஆசை எனக்கு ஏற்பட்டது.

படித்து முடித்துவிட்டு ஐஏஎஸ் தேர்வுக்காக படிக்கப் போகிறேன் என்றதும் மற்ற பெற்றோரைப் போலவே எனது பெற்றோரும் யோசித்தனர். அதற்கு பொருளாதாரப் பிரச் சினைதான் முக்கிய காரணம். என்னால் ஐஏஎஸ் அதிகாரி ஆக முடியுமா என்ற சந்தேகம் அவர்களுக்கு ஏற்பட்டிருக்கலாம்.


ஆனால், நான் முதல் முயற்சி யில் நேர்முகத்தேர்வு வரை சென்றதும் என் மீது அவர்களுக்கு நம்பிக்கை வந்துவிட்டது. எனது முயற்சிக்கு பக்கபலமாக இருந் தனர்.


ஐஏஎஸ் தேர்வைப் பொருத்த வரையில், அனைத்துப் பாடங் களைப் பற்றிய அடிப்படை அறிவு முக்கியம். நமது அறிவை அவ்வப்போது கூர்மைப்படுத்தி வர வேண்டும். கடின உழைப்பும், விடாமுயற்சியும் இருந்தால் போதும், எந்த தடைகளையும் தாண்டிவிடலாம்.

இவ்வாறு வான்மதி கூறினார்.


http://tamil.thehindu.com/tamilnadu...ான்மதி-சாதனை/article7388827.ece?homepage=true
 
Save 1 life in 1 Rupee

Save 1 life in 1 Rupee

Please see this video


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5sKAKWeLwVE


Uploaded on Feb 16, 2011
Khaja Mohideen from Coimbatore, India, a humble man had created history silently by helping more than a 1000 poor people to undergo major surgery and thus saving lives. This, he has done with the help of students and people have good heart who were eager to help the poor. This is part 1 of his story.

Please also see part 2 of this



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4-DzV-fjSIQ


Uploaded on Feb 15, 2011
Khaja Mohideen from Coimbatore, India, a humble human being living on this earth is doing great deeds by helping poor to get through their huge medical expenses. This is part 2 of his story






Please also read from here

http://tamilil-vaasee.blogspot.in/2015/04/social-life.html
 
கிராமமே கையெடுத்து கும்பிடும் பிரபல நடி&

கிராமமே கையெடுத்து கும்பிடும் பிரபல நடிகை!

July 5, 2015




தமிழ் சினிமாவில் 80களில் கமல், ரஜினி போன்ற பெரிய ஹீரோக்களின் படங்களில் நடித்த மிக பிரபலமான நடிகையாக திகழ்ந்தவர் டிஸ்கோ சாந்தி. இவரின் நடிப்பை விட குத்தாட்ட நடனத்தில் பிரபலமானார்.


இவர் தெலுங்கு நடிகர் ஸ்ரீஹரியை திருமணம் செய்து சினிமாவுக்கு முழுக்கு போட்டார். கடந்த வருடம் எதிர்பாராத விதமாக ஸ்ரீ ஹரி கேன்சரால் மரணமடைந்தார்.டிஸ்கோ சாந்திக்கு 2 குழந்தைகள். கணவர் இறந்த சோகத்திலிருந்து கொஞ்ச கொஞ்சமாக வெளியே வந்து அவர் விட்டு சென்ற உதவும் பணியை தற்போது தொடர்ந்து வருகிறார்.ஸ்ரீ ஹரி வள்ளல் பரம்பரை சேர்ந்தவர்,
அதுவும் ஏழைகளுக்கு பல உதவிகளை செய்து வந்தார். தன்னுடைய நிலத்தில் பயிரிடப்படும் நெல்களை சாகுபடி செய்து தன்னுடைய கிராமத்தில் வாழும் ஏழை மக்களுக்கு கொடுத்து வந்தார். அவர் விட்டு சென்ற இந்த பணியை சாந்தியும் தொடர்கிறாராம்.


இதனால் அந்த கிராமமே டிஸ்கோ சாந்தியை கையெடுத்து கும்பிட்டு வருகிறது.



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Meet The Woman Who Donated A Kidney To Her Daughter-in-Law After Her Mother Refused

Meet The Woman Who Donated A Kidney To Her Daughter-in-Law After Her Mother Refused

July 6, 2015





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In an unusual tale, a 36-year-old woman received a kidney from her mother-in-law, who stepped in after the patient’s mother went back on her decision to help.


Kavita, who lives in West Delhi’s Uttam Nagar, was asked to undergo a kidney transplant for which her mother agreed to donate a kidney. However, at the last minute she refused. It was then that her mother-in-law, Vimla (65), came forward.


“It was a decision nobody expected. It was something that does not happen nowadays.” “After undergoing tests, we found Vimla fit to donate her kidney. The surgery took place on June 23. Both the donor and recipient are fine,” said Dr. Aditya Pradhan.

Dr. Sunil Prakash said: “It is not a reel life story, but a real one with a happy ending. Kavita underwent a successful kidney transplantation. It is amazing to see such a relationship between Kavita and her mother-in-law. ”


“This is the first instance we have seen of a mother-in-law coming forward to donate her kidney to her daughter-in-law. Also, it is remarkable since the donor belongs to a community where the gender bias is strong. This donor overcame all objections and consented to donate a kidney,” added Dr. Pradhan.


In Vimla’s own words: “I wanted to save her life. She is my daughter, not just my daughter in law.”



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Salute. Wasim Khan Creates History For India In Bodybuilding

Salute. Wasim Khan Creates History For India In Bodybuilding


July 5, 2015


Wasim Khan of India has created history by winning the bodybuilding title in the International Bodybuilding and Fitness Federation event in Rome in June. He is now the only Indian to win two back to back overall IBFF titles, having won the title in Slovenia last year. With this achievement, he joins the likes of Murli Kumar, Sangram Chougule, Suhas Khamkar and Amit Chhetri who have made India proud in bodybuilding. His next aim will be to win Mr Olympia, which is the most coveted title in body building.

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He was once a Homeless Kid. Today he is an Entrepreneur.

He was once a Homeless Kid. Today he is an Entrepreneur.



Amin ran away from home when he was just five. Today he owns a car rental company, has written a book, and wants to change the lives of street kids.


“Iwas a street kid. Like thousands of other kids who don’t have homes, I begged, I stole, I polished shoes. I did everything that came my way to get at least one meal a day,” says Amin Sheikh, a 32-year old man who now has his own travel company, has penned a book, and will soon start a café.

Amin’s childhood was miserable. At the tender age of five, he was working as a child labourer in a tea shop in Mumbai where he would often face grumpy customers who would mistreat him. Going back home after a long day of work was of no relief, as his stepfather would beat him up for petty reasons. One day, he broke two glasses at work and, scared to face the wrath of the shop owner followed by a beating at home, Amin decided to run away.

He is 35 now and is doing everything he can to ensure that other homeless kids don’t have to go through what he did.


So how did a homeless kid achieve all that Amin has? His is a story of passion and dedication that not only changed his own life but is changing the lives of other street children around him today.

Amin Sheikh

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After spending a few years in poverty, eating food out of garbage dumps, doing petty jobs, and sleeping on park benches, Amin was taken in by Snehasadan, an NGO for homeless children. He was eight years old at the time and spent the rest of his childhood and youth there.

Snehsadan educated him and helped him get a driver’s license. He then went off to work as a chauffeur and Man Friday to a close friend of Snehasadan’s, Eustace. Amin’s life changed after that. His honest hard work and dedication so impressed Eustace that the latter helped him set up his up his own car company called Sneha Travels.



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