Yesterday I had privilege to meet a wonderful person. A lady who is not so educated ,who works in social service firm , who is separated and who had two children. She is like every common person of India. She is concerned about her children eduction , food inflation and how to move ahead in life.

But ordinary chetna is some what different than many of us. Different in kinds of challenges which she has been facing. Challenges of separated woman , challenges of being less educated , challenges of being mother of mentally challenged kid and challenges of her own health.

If one listens to her story from third person , one would feel sorry for her but as soon as one meets her , one feels proud of her as human being. Yesterday I had that privileged to witness the winning attitude, the courage , the quest to move forward in life and being a fighter against all odds of life , when I met her.

Chetna was born in lower middle class family in a community which considers girl child to be more of a burden than a matter of pride. She was always discouraged to study since her parents believed that girl must learn how to cook and not how to read.

She still managed to study till 8th std but she was forced to leave her studies by her parents. As soon as she was 16 , she got married to a man who believed that wife is more a tool to take care of his needs than plain human being.

As soon as she gave birth to girl child , she started getting more problems from her husband and in laws. She was pressurized to conceive at earliest (as if it is in her hand). One year later she gave birth to male child.

Chetna was not happy with environment of her sasural. She was worried about her girl child’s future. Her husband was non cooperative and habitual drinker. She was soon getting fed up with the situation. Amidst all these she developed health issue ,which was considered to be too expensive by her in laws.

After years of struggling to take decision , she finally walked out of her marriage. Life was still tough , since she had not so happy parents (because of her decision) , she had 2 kids to nurture and she lacked skills to earn her livilehood. She started applying for job and manage to get job in NGO.

Right now chetna is doing reasonably well supporting NGO activities and impacting of society at large. She is providing right enivornment for her kids and is pretty optimistic about their future. Her health challenge still remains but she is looking forward to move ahead in life. She gave 10th exam an year back and want to become graduate in future. She also learnt english and is now learning computer.

What did appeal to me in chetna is her attitude towards life and her courage to face all odds and not give up. What I was inspired by meeting her was her determination and commitment for her children for better life.

It is ordinary people like chetna who keep India going .It is aam aadmi and their courage which makes India move ahead. It is these real stories which makes India. I salute chetna and wish her well in life.

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India is facing a new challenge. Student Suicides. The figures are rising and students are comitting suicide even when a semester exams go bad. Last week a young girl studying in second year of b com ended her life because she did bad in her economics paper . She didn’t even wait for her results and hanged her , ending her life.

Maharashtra and uttar pradesh have seen sudden rise in number of students committing suicides. While celebrities have come ahead to speak on this issue , it is not helping those much who are in depression , cannot take stress and are ready to kill themselves , ending most beautiful thing called life which has millions of possibilities.

Here , today we are sharing with you a true story of a man who failed in 12th science board exam. Failing in 12th has major fall out. We are talking about 20 years ago where failing in 12th was end of career in itself. Society would see a 12th failure as someone to pity for , parents would spend sleepless night worrying about their offspring’s future.

Ritesh also failed his 12th science exam. Ritesh’s father was leading architect in gujarat . Ritesh’s father believe that those in science stream are only people who are worth something while rest waste their life. While ritesh was least interested in science and maths. He was more interested in drawing , arts which his father rated as useless. His father pressurized him to take science which ritesh did without any interest. Tuition’s , class , good school , nothing helped ritesh who wanted to do something in arts stream. Inevitable happened when results came. He failed and his father passed the verdict that ritesh would be failure in larger test called life.

Ritesh went into depression and failed again . Now his father had lost all hopes about ritesh and he concentrated all his aspirations on ritesh’s younger brother. Hopeless , lifeless and depressed ritesh , manytimes thought of ending his life. He was feeling worthless and society was coming up with career options for him like working in small jobs.

Ritesh decided to change his stream and took arts stream. He finally cleared his 12th and then cleared entrance exam and got into leading college for fine arts.

Ritesh did found field of his interest and started excel. He got job of trainee in good advertisement firm and slowly started rising the ladder. Now ritesh is creative head of one of best ad firms in India and draws salary in six figures.

Ritesh was not dumb as his father rated him to be, neither he was a man with lower intelligence. Only problem with ritesh was that he was into something which didn’t appeal him. When he got into something that appeal his soul he excelled.

Failing in one exam is not end of life , neither it is certificate of how good or how bad one would perform in life. Life is precious and one can do wonders with it. All students reading this post do remember ritesh and his story. You never know what you can become. Honor your life and have faith in nature’s law. You are special and there is atleast one thing which you are good at , fiind it and pursue it , rest shall follow.

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Books are one of best sources of inspiration. Books have power to change destiny, not just of individuals but even of nations. Here we are sharing with all a true story of a man whose life got changed because of one book.

Dinesh belongs to schedule caste category in India. Dinesh got admission into one of best engineering colleges of India. He did computer engineering from that college. Dinesh was never a good student. He was not interested much in studies but some how manage to clear exams and acquire degree. He didnt get job through campus interview .

He came back to his native state but different city to his parents. He used to stay with few bachelors . All struggling youths. Dinesh did use to give one -two interviews in a month but didn’t use to clear it. Direction less , going through motion , dinesh was not even aware about what he wants from his life.

Somebody invited him to a seminar and in that seminar the speaker stated name of few books and one of them was BE YOUR OWN CEO. Book from author of who stole american dream. Dinesh bought that book and it changed something in dinesh. He realized how he was wasting his time and in due course was in way of wasting his life!!!!!!!!!!!

He was changed person know. Determined to take charge of his life. Dinesh being computer engineer but not able to get job took a mediocre job in call center paying less than 100 Rs a day!!!!!!!

His first goal was taking care of his own expense. Luck favors perpared mind and dinesh was prepared to take charge of his life. Dinesh was prepared to make use of his time and luck favored him. On his way to his home town , dinesh met Mr parikh in train. Mr parikh was branch manager of a big insurance firm and coincidently Mr parikh was passout from same college as that of dinesh. He asked dinesh to give interivew for backoffice in his firm. Now old dinesh wont have even gone for interview. But new dinesh was determined to try everything to make things happen for him.Halo effect did work and dinesh landed up with that job.

Dinesh worked hard and his natural skill of public relations did help him. Dinesh slowly started climbing ladder of success and became assistant manager back office in that insurance firm. Soon dinesh was offered job by another insurance firm with bigger post and bigger pay package.

Dinesh now is business analyst in one of biggest Insurance company of India. His degree with experience in insurance helped him to take this post. He leads a team of programmers and insurance advisor to make product better.

Dinesh maintains a library now which contains most of self help books and devotes one hour a day to read books. One book change way he saw things and he makes sure that books remain his source of inspiration.

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Today’s story is of ordinary man with little education , lot of responsibility , big dream and reasonable achievement. Today story is of one man who started selling door to door and eventually became millionaire.

Siddharth Desai was born is a poor family and to make matter worse his father died when he was just 12 year old. Being eldest in the family with 2 brothers and 3 sisters to feed siddharth started doing odd jobs.Working at tea stall in the day , working in dhaba in the evening , working as news paper boy. Siddarth did anything which was possible for him with single goal. Feeding his siblings and mother.

Siddharth earned a reputation of hard working , sincere boy. When siddharth was 18 , he got offer from a man (Ramesh) who wanted to make detergents. Siddharth became partner in this home made detergent venture. Ramesh use to make detergent and siddharth used to go door to door to sell them. Siddharth had bought a bicycle till then and used to work from 10-8 knocking door and selling detergents. He worked like this for another two years before a well established detergent manufacturing company’s sales manager saw him. Siddharth knocked his door and the manager could rate his skill. Siddharth was offered job in that firm . Siddharth had too little education but had grasped few English words during his selling spree.

Siddharth worked hard and in another two years he had direct sales marketing team of five people working under him. Siddharth being ambitious also took english course to master the language.

Fortune favored siddharth soon. Siddharth came in touch of a person (Vivek) who was equally ambitious ,dedicate and financially in same plane. Siddharth was thinking of quitting the job and doing his own thing. Vivek proposes business of supplying bottole to pharma companies while siddharth handling the bottle supplier system while vivek the pharma companies. Siddharth used all his experience of dealing with people in getting credits , getting suppliers give more margin.

Their business took off. Within two years both of them were well established in the market. But vivek and siddharth were ambitious people who could not settle for less. Luck favoured them again when a young business man , Gautam got gold import license. He need people whom he can trust and vivek knew gautam since long. Vivek and siddharth became part of gautam’s business and soon siddharth , vivek’s journey to become millionaire began.

Siddharth used to travel lot in those days. Quite often he used to board flight from ahmedabad to mumbai ,make the deal and within 4 hours he would be back on mumbai to ahmedabad flight.

Gautam’s business was expanding and siddharth , vivek were more busier than ever. Both didn’t work as his employee , both worked on percentage basis. They worked in gold market , cement , steel , scrap.

Later they entered real estate market. Having made enough money , they started investing in properties and even making residential buildings and selling it. They also invested gautam’s money and generate profit for him.

Today siddharth has office in one of prime location of ahmedabad. Siddharth’s brother are in his business. Siddharth has lot of investments in plot and has made a grand bunglow.

There is one interesting story regarding his buglow. Siddharth purchased plot for bunglow long back but his contruction of bunglow went on for 7 years. It was going on very slowly. When people asked him about why he lives in small flat and not make his bunglow bit faster. He used to reply that Bunglow has not to be contructed from capital but from profit. After making profit , I divide them in running my house , keeping some safe money and then constructing bunglow.

Other gems from siddharth is one liners like -’ There are lot of gautams who need trustworthy,honest,hardworking people’ .’Keep looking and growing’. ‘I am not graduate but educated’ .’Biggest satisfaction is not driving big cars but taking care of family’.

Siddharth’s story is perfect rage to riches story of a man who did lot of things for earning but his honest , zeal , dedication finally paid off.

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Like haiti , gujarat was rocked by major earthquake in 26 January 2001. Epicenter was kutchh and its effect was seen 500 kms away in ahmedabad too. Lives was lost , properties got demolished and in around a minute , world changed for many.

One of such victims was Mrs Mansi shah. Working in government firm , she had everything in her life. Caring husband , bubbly daugther who was in 11th , tofaani son who was in 9th. Her life was good till 26/1. That approx 1 minute changed everything forever for her. Earthquake didnt just take her house but also her family. Her husband , her daughter and her son , all died in the earthquake that rocked gujarat that day.

It not easy when you loose loved ones that too all of them. That one minute snatched her life from her. She survived with injuries. Her physical injuries recovered but her mental injury caused by brutal quake?. She went into depression. She had lost all her zeal for life.

Her parents and friends tried to bring her zeal back. They consulted a psychiatrist. That worked and slowly mansiji came back on track of life. 2 years later she was pursuaded by her old parents to get remarried. It was not easy but finally her parent’s effort worked. She got in touch through matrimonial , a man who was himself same earthquake victim. He too had lost his family. Both could understand each others pains. Both got married. God was kind to them. At such a mature age too ,the wedding brought a new life in the world. A baby girl whom mansiji named after her first daughter.

Life was reborn and so was hope. Life moves on. Those who left us cant come back and their memories would always stay to be cherished but lifes other name is hope and hope lives inspite of everything.

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Today’s story is perfect inspiration for people who think its too late to change their ways. Who have lost hope in their ability of changing life for better.

Paresh Parikh was born in middle class family . He was bright student and good in maths. He did engineering from good college. During his engineering days he fall in love with a girl (sneha) studying in arts college. The girl belonged to reputed family and her uncle was powerful politician.

Paresh also did fall in habit of alcohol. The occasional drink with friends ,later turned into habit.

His marriage to sneha was full bollywood style where family of girl opposed marriage and paresh ran away with sneha. Sneha’s uncle took this as insult and used all his might to catch the couple. They were caught too but it was too late since they were married by then. Gradually sneha’s family accepted paresh and their marriage.

With marriage comes responsibility but impulsive paresh had formed habit of alcohol. He had become alcoholic and nightmare for sneha began. He was not typical Indian Alcoholic Man . He never abused or beat sneha but he was drunk for most of time. He was time and again sacked from his job. Marriage led to birth of daughter and their financial condition was ever deteriorating.

Sneha took a job and her money was providing with necessities of life. Paresh was hopeless man in last twenties. So much so that sneha had to often lock him to make sure he didn’t drink. But paresh still use to find way to have alcohol. He use to call his supplier and hang his bag from second floor while his supplier use to give his bottle.

Sneha was depressed since her hard earned money was used by paresh for his alcohol. Then something happened which changed paresh forever. Depressed sneha could not take immense pressure of life and fainted in her office. Doctors detected heavy stress and gave ultimatum to paresh to change his habit.

Paresh changed that day. Paresh left alcohol from that day. Without any therapy , without any other help , he simply left alcohol. Perhaps he had realized that his love for alcohol is ruining his wife’s health and future of his daughter.

During those era JAVA was buzz word in market. He borrowed money from his friends and enrolled in java course. He did give sun certification exam and became sun certified programmer. He also joined the same classes as instructor and after six months he joined an upcoming firm as programmer.

He remained in that job for two years . He applied for firm in USA and managed to clear the interview. He went to USA and is in USA since last 8 years.

Paresh was nicknamed as paresh batali (batali means bottle) by his neighbours but now paresh is held in high esteem. He hasn’t come to India since he has gone but he remains in touch with most of his friend except his alcohol supplier!!!!!!!

Paresh’s story is total turn around of a man from being labelled as gone case, hopeless to person who is responsible to take care of his family. Paresh’s story is story of what man can become , no matter how he has been in past.

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Today’s story is of a man born in lower middle class family. Story of typical Indian Family where eldest son takes care of entire family, sacrificing his own things for responsibilities. Only difference between rajesh singh and many others is that he didn’t stop dreaming while working hard for daily bread and butter.

Rajesh Singh’s father was small time clerk and had huge family of 8 children. Rajesh Singh’s father died when rajesh was 16. Rajesh was very passionate about education and used to top his schools. But sudden demise of his father and having 3 sisters , 4 brothers and mother to support , he was forced by life to give up his studies.

Rajesh did everything under the sun with single goal. Feeding his brothers , sisters and making sure that they at least graduate. In those times getting sisters married was huge job with prevailing social evils like dowry.

Rajesh started doing odd job till he settled with a job in textile trading unit. His responsible attitude , his zeal to succeed and his honest character saw him making good fame in the market. Soon rajesh was soughted after employee by traders. After working for 5 years as employee , rajesh finally got financier who wanted to do business of textile trading. Rajesh formed a partnership firm and slowly his business started flourishing.

Having established in textile market , rajesh diversified into retail business of ready made clothes. This business too took off and slowly his brothers started being part of his ventures.

Rajesh still has passion for studies but his business didn’t give him time for pursing his aspirations. It is said that life throws you surprise when you least expect it. His acquaint was thinking of buying a school but had 20% amount short for that. School was primary school and management wanted to sell it off. Rajesh soon jumped into the opportunity and became one of trustees of the school.

His passion for education , his zeal for interacting with students saw some of good reforms in the school. He introduced some programs for interaction with parents , programs for improving concentration of students , interactive studying.

His school was one of first school to have computer in the city. Soon his school saw rise in number of students and they expanded. They also got permission to make it into higher secondary school from primary school.

Rajesh then bought another school and today his tally is 7 schools. Rajesh believes that good education is best service to country and mankind in general.

His other businesses are managed by his brothers while rajesh is into school venture, dedicated , passionate and even at age of 66, nothing is stopping rajesh from pursuing his dream.

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The story we are going to publish here are not stories of well known people but story of common man/woman who stood tall against all their struggles and emerged as successful people. They might not be millionare , their photos might not be in newspapers but they are successful in their own way.

Today’s story is about a man who is called pandit. He owns a tea stall and deals in real estate. Now you may wonder , what makes us write story about a tea vendor. Well read it to know why his story is worth to be told.

Pandit came to ahmedabad , 15 years back from rajasthan with few rupees which he did spent on getting a one room place to stay with his wife and 1 year old daughter. With no means to feed , he started with what he knew best. That is shewing. His olde shewing machine was one thing which he had brought from village.

After a month he got idea of riding auto rickshaw . So along with shewing , he took auto rikshaw on rent which he rode in night and shewed during day time. This activites consumed his 15 hours. Slowly he made some friends in the town. One of them proposed opening a tea stall. Pandit accepted the proposal and both went on hunting for place to open one. They found a place too. Condition was that they could keep it open for 6 hours only.

Life was tough. Pandit used to spend 4 hours in tea stall , ride rickshaw for 10 hours and for another 4 hours he used to do shewing. He used to spend 1 hour walking from his home to tea stall place. Practically he got sleep of hardly 3-4 hours!!!!!!!!!!

He did continue working which such scedule for 7 years of his life!!!!!!!!. Slowly income of tea stall increased and they got new place which allowed them to keep tea stall open for 12 hours. Soon his tea buisness took off and he closed shewing and rickshaw riding.

Today pandit owns tea stall place and also is real estate agent. He has his own flat and sends his only daughter in nice english medium school. When he recalls his struggling days he says -’kaali majuri ki hai , bhagwan dushman ko bhi aise din na dikhaaye’.

Now pandit has 10 employees in his tea stall . Pandit doesnot own cars or bungalows but this illterate person worked hard to his way of owning flat in mega city and give his daughter good education. He also proved that hard work can pay , only if one wishes to not get demotivated by demanding situations.

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Neha agarwal was born in well to do family. Her dad had thriving business.Belonging to higher middle class family , neha had good upbringing. One elder sister , one younger brother , neha had happy childhood with family of five.

Her elder sister got married when neha was in 11th. Life started taking new turns soon. Her father had made huge loss in business . To make matter worse , her mother got detected with blood cancer , last stage.While she completed 12th , life became totally different. From well to do family , they all of sudden found themselves in debt. With mother being taken to mumbai every now and then and father being busy with ailing mother , finances were becoming major problem for neha’s family.

Her father had heart attack and soon neha came to know actual amount of debt. She opted for a job which was not enough to pay interest. Her father’s buisness was already in debts and they had nothing except their house left to pay those debts. Neha took entire thing on her strive and did every legitimate thing to create money. She started English class , she worked with friend as partner for recruitment , she did share trading . Her only goal was to create income to run her house and pay interest of private lenders.

Her mother succumbed to cancer and this made her father more depressed. Somehow his zeal had gone with her mother and neha’s brother was still small to contribute.

Neha worked day in ,day out for 5 long years!!!!!!!!. But having created successful brand for herself , she finally landed up with high paying job of manager for entire gujarat region. That cooled her tension and she recovered from debt .

Now neha is settled in singapore. Whenever she remembers her struggling days , she always says that hope kept me going. Neha’s story is story of a ordinary girl who took responsibility of her family and inspite of extraordinary challenges triumphed in the end.

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Nagma Khan lived her entire life is small town adjoining ahmedabad. Having inclination for studies she was keen to become graduate when graduates were hard to find. Belonging to a lower middle class family and conservative neighborhood , studying was never easy thing to pursue. In era were women’s role was primarily as care taker , studying was considered to be not so good thing for women.

But nagma was defiant and she had good support from her dad. But to her ill luck before she could become graduate , her father died.She was hurriely married at age of 19 and by age of 25 , she had four kids. Two daughters and two son.

When her youngest son and 4th offspring was just 2 year old , nagma’s husband had a fatal accident. Nagma was left with four offspring and no bread winner. True to her nature ,she decided to get a job. She got a job as temporary school teacher and was made permanent , few years later.

Having seen insecurities in life nagma started investing money in every possible oppurtunities. Today she is retired and has residual income of 20,000 a month through rental incomes. Enough to have good life for entire family in small town. Her both daughters are married and youngest son is an engineer.

Recalling her quest for education , she often states how hard it was when in entire class , there were only two women. She was at times teased by boys and both women had to come with escort of peon because school and her residence had inhabitated area with lot of trees. She narates that how her fears were conquered by her zeal and how that education helped her to have secured live.

Nagam Khan is story of a Indian Woman who stood tall amidst all problems and emerged as winner. Our salute to this lady.

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