Our formal education system is often cited as a prerequisite for a “good job” out in “the real world”. With this understanding of the importance of education, many students get wrapped up in their grades and marks, often taking them as value statements on their own self-worth. It’s really easy to get trapped in …

What is happiness? People have agonized over this question for centuries. Here is a wonderful story extracted from Paulo Coelho’s The Alchemist that surely helps you to discover the ultimate meaning of Happiness . A certain shopkeeper sent his son to learn about the secret of happiness from the wisest man…

Everybody talks about Mother’s love.... Yes, she is an Angel of God. But that can’t be the real reason why we underestimate or undervalue Father’s selfless contribution and sacrifice. Here is a wonderful story....     One Day An 11 Year Old Girl Asked Her Daddy, ”What Are You Going To Get Me For My 15th Bi…

Here is a beautiful story from the sermon of Buddha. It delves with the true essence of LIFE. There was a rich King who had four wives. He loved the 4th wife the most and adorned her with rich robes and treated her to the finest of delicacies. He gave her nothing but the best. He also loved the 3rd wife very mu…

This Heart-touching sad story is about the Angel of God who has been taking care of you long before you were born and will always take care how much you grow old. And we call this ANGEL as ‘Mother’, ‘Maa’, ‘Mom’ and so on. I simply hated my mom for she had only one eye that made her bizarre almost like a witc…

Once a sturdy woodcutter in search of a job went to a timber merchant and he got it. The pay was really good and so was the work condition. For those reasons, the woodcutter was determined to do his best. His boss gave him an axe and showed him the area where he supposed to work. The first day, the woodcutt…

Following is a true story of Dr. Howard Kelly , a distinguished physician who, in 1895, founded the Johns Hopkins Division of Gynecologic Oncology at Johns Hopkins University. There is still some doubt about the wholesome truth about this story. May be some part is real while some part is fictionalised. But keep…

A newly married couple was returning home. They were crossing a lake in a boat, when suddenly a great storm arose. The man was a warrior, but the woman became very much afraid because it seemed almost hopeless. The boat was small and the storm was really huge, and any moment they were going to be drowned. But th…

The Professor began his class by holding up a glass with some water in it. He held it up for all to see & asked the students “How much do you think this glass weighs?” ’50gms!’….. ’100gms!’ …..’125 gms’ …the students answered. “I really don’t know unless I weigh it,” said the professor, “but, my quest…

Everyday a woman used to bake chapatti (roti) for her family members and an extra one for a hungry passerby. She always kept the extra chapatti on the window sill, for whosoever would take it away. Every day, a hunchback came and took away the chapatti. Instead of expressing gratitude, he muttered the following w…

A man came home from work late, tired and irritated, to find his 5-year old son waiting for him at the door. SON: “Daddy, may I ask you a question?” DAD: “Yeah sure, what is it?” replied the man. SON: “Daddy, how much do you make an hour?” DAD: “That’s none of your business. Why do you ask such a thing?” the …