“The most necessary person is the person you’re with at a particular moment. The most important business is to do that person good.”
Mr. Poonawala was in Mumbai. As soon as he heard the news, the loving service rendered by Ganga Datt welled up in his heart which prompted him to cancel all his meetings, then requested the driver's family to wait for him to return for the cremation. He then immediately flew back to Pune. On reaching Pune, he had his car decorated with flowers as he wanted the body of Ganga Datt to be taken in the same car which he himself had driven since the beginning. Mr. Poonawala himself drove the car with the driver’s body in it from his home up to the cremation ground.
Caring
Trees make mothers say “What a lovely picture to paint!” Trees make fathers say, “What a lot of leaves to rake this fall!”
D. M. Mohite, a journalist, visited the famous Tadoba sanctuary in 1970 and was amazed by the way this forest was being nurtured and protected. He then remembered how an entire forest in his native village of Devrashtra in Sangli was destroyed by deforestation and uncontrolled grazing of cattle. He returned to his village and with the help of villagers and officials converted the dry hill slope of his village into the Sagareshwar Wildlife Sanctuary – the only man-made sanctuary in India where all wild life species were artificially introduced.
Creative Thinking
The shop had a quiet distinction. There was no sign upon it other than the name of ‘Gessler Brothers’.
On the Town Hall road, in Thrissur town, there’s a tiny shop that attracts customers from even far off places. Except a wooden board with a peculiar name ‘Honest Pen Hospital’, this unique shop has no advertising or publicity. But through word-of-mouth publicity, many people come to this place to get their beloved pens repaired by this ‘pen doctor’ who is often seen with ink spilt over his hands and clothes.
Uniqueness
In a message that she sent from aboard the space shuttle, Columbia, to students of her college in Chandigarh, Kalpana said, “The path from dreams to success does exist. May you have the vision to find it, the courage to get onto it…Wishing you a great journey.” There will surely be many who start off on this journey to fulfill their dreams.
Who would believe that a girl who was thrown out of a moving train in 2011 by thugs for refusing to hand over her ornaments would be able to lead a normal life? Arunima Sinha’s legs were run over by a train coming from the opposite direction. Her one leg was amputated and the other leg had a rod inserted. She also had an injury in the spine. Within two years after this tragic incident, she did achieve something that many with all limbs and perfect spine can't even dream of. In 2013 she climbed the Mount Everest, becoming the world’s first female amputee, and the first Indian amputee, to achieve this feat.
Self-Confidence, Determination
One is known by the company one keeps. Your identity is determined by the people with whom you move and the friends that you have.
The eccentric British mathematician GH Hardy is known for his achievements in number theory and mathematical analysis. Perhaps he is better known as the mentor of the famous Indian mathematical genius, Srinivasa Ramanujan. Hardy was the only one to recognize Ramanujan's genius, and brought him to Cambridge University, and was his mentor for many years. Once, Hardy arrived at Ramanujan's house in a cab numbered 1729, a number he claimed as uninteresting. Hearing this, Ramanujan brought out an interesting characteristic of the number that 1729 being the smallest number representable in two different ways as a sum of two cubes. Such numbers are now sometimes referred to as 'taxicab numbers'.
Friendship, Good Company
An arithmetic progression is a list of number in which each term is obtained by adding a fixed no. to the proceeding term except the first term.
Dr. Vijayalakshmi Deshmane has seen many aspects of life. From being born in a backward caste that is traditionally involved in stitching used footwear, to living in a slum; from selling vegetable to becoming a reputed surgeon and cancer expert – she has experienced it all, and has been giving to the society with her incredible selflessness. Her father who lived was influenced by the freedom movement and believed in the empowerment of all. He had a dream that she will become a doctor and serve the poorest of the poor. Through hardwork and determination, she fulfilled his dream and became one of India’s most reputed Oncologists. She says: “I am what I am today because of the sacrifices made by my parents and siblings.”
Hard work, Simplicity
