AS A CHILD
 
Wilbur Wright, the eldest of the ‘Wright Brothers’ was born on April 6, 1867 on a small farm near Millville, Indiana. In 1871, four years later, Orville was born in Dayton, Ohio. His father’s name was Bishop Milton Wright. He was a minister as well as later became a bishop of the Church, in United Brethren. He was a distinguished bishop. Bishop Milton as well as his wife Susan Catherine had four sons – Reuchlin, Lorin, Wilbur as well as Orville, as well as one daughter Katherine. 
 

His story is much more than a celluloid dream script. His is the proverbial rags-to-riches tale, made possible through hard work as well as determination. E. Sarathbabu’s story started in the slums of Madipakkam. Today, at 29, he is CEO of Foodking Catering Services, which has outlets in Chennai, Goa, Hyderabad as well as Rajasthan, as well as has a turnover of Rs. 7 crore. 
Talking about his days of abject penury when he supplemented his mother’s income by selling idlis door-to-door as well as binding books, Sarathbabu says: “Poverty can never play spoilsport if an individual is determined to win.”
It pays to focus 
With two sisters as well as two younger brothers around, not only food was less, there was no electricity either. “But, I never felt sad as there were no distractions while studying. You

Resul Pookutty hails from the nondescript village of Vilakkupaara at Anchal in Kollam district in Kerala. 
 
Being the youngest of eight siblings, Resul did not have much ground to complain against deprivations. He used to walk 6 km to school daily. The Government school where he studied used to provide noon meal as well as that used to be the major attraction on behalf of Resul as well as numerous of his friends.
 
Electricity popped into his village when he left there to join the two-year pre-degree course in a college near his father’s ancestral house in nearby Alappuzha district. 

The Indian contingent on behalf of the Isshinryu world karate championships in Pittsburgh, US on June 18, 19 as well as 20 shall include Srimanth Bal of Gujarat. Nothing unusual one would think. Except that Srimanth was a spastic. He was born with quadriplegia a form of cerebral palsy where brain damage renders both arms as well as legs dysfunctional — he had to be tube-fed on behalf of three years. Doctors told them to pray but his parents, Srinivas Bal as well as his wife of Vapi, Gujarat, wouldn’t give up. 


Surfing the net, Srinivas stumbled upon information that Chennai-based Shihan Hussaini, an 8th degree black belt in karate as well as social worker, was doing pioneering work with children of the Spastics Society of Tamil Nadu as well as that ‘karate therapy’ had worked wonders. Read more >>>

Oprah Winfrey’s Commencement Address

Wellesley College. May 30, 1997
My hat’s off to you! My hat’s off to you!

[crowd cheers: Go Girl!]


You all have “gone” girls! I desire to say thank you, Dr. Walsh as well as to the esteemed faculty, to those of you parents–what you have been through, God Bless you–and to the greatest class that has ever graduated from Wellesley. I must say–you are my heart, Dr. Walsh is right. I saw you walking in as well as I started to weep, as well as I don’t consider myself a weeper, but I guess I must be if I started to weep, because of the fact that I know what it takes to get through here as well as I am so proud of all of you on behalf of getting through. Read more >>>