A Pound of Butter There was a farmer who sold a pound of butter to a baker. One day the baker decided to weigh the butter to see if he was getting the right amount, which he wasn’t. Angry about this, he took the...
The Group of Frogs As a group of frogs was traveling through the woods, two of them fell into a deep pit. When the other frogs crowded around the pit and saw how deep it was, they told the two frogs that there was no...
Thinking Out of the Box In a small Italian town, hundreds of years ago, a small business owner owed a large sum of money to a loan shark. The loan shark was a very old, unattractive-looking guy that just so happened to fancy the business...
The Elephant Rope Sometimes an inspiring story helps us find out the strength within us. An inspiring story helps you inspire yourself and motivate yourself. It also helps find out what you can do and what you cannot. There are hundreds you may have...
Get ready for smart rings! In 2013, 23-year-old Rohildev N established RHL Vision Technologies at the Startup Village in Kochi, Kerala, to work on touchless technologies. This was a project that he had started when he was a final year student of engineering. His development,...
First woman Anglican bishop of India Rev. E Pushpalalitha assumed charge as bishop of the Nandyal diocese at a consecration ceremony, on September 29, 2013. Rev. Pushpalalitha is the first woman bishop of India and South Asia, in the Anglican family of churches. She hails...
Cleaning up the lakes of India In 2012, 28-year-old Arun Krishnamurthy became the youngest recipient of the prestigious Rolex Young Laureate Award for Enterprise, for an ongoing project to restore Chennai’s Killattalai Lake to its pristine glory, Five lakes in Chennai and 17 others across...
Building a secular India Isaac Poobalan grew up in Kerala’s Vellore district, watching people of different faiths pray together in the Chapel of the Christian Medical College Hospital, where he served as a male nurse. Forty years later, as Rector of St John’s Church in...
“Suicidal” birds In the months of September and October, hundreds of migratory birds that have never left Jatinga, Assam, drop dead suddenly. This mysterious happening takes place on a moonless night between 6 p.m. and 9.30 p.m. While the search for a totally acceptable explanation...
Red rain in Kerala Idukki and Kottayam in Kerala have received red-coloured rain intermittently for close to 30 years now (from 1986 to 2012), in the period between July 25 and September 23. Trees, rocks, and even lampposts get a thick layer of red-coloured algae...
