Archive for the 'Stories that Matter' Category

Growing Old

Friday, August 17th, 2007

Here is a little story someone emailed me recently…
The first day of school our professor introduced himself and challenged us to get to know someone we didn’t already know. I stood up to look around when a gentle hand touched my shoulder. I turned round to find a wrinkled, little old lady beaming up [...]

India’s economic advancement no longer rests on telephone call centers and computer programmers

Monday, November 6th, 2006

Scott Eells for The New York Times
The Essar mill in Hazira, which is quintupling steel production, has its own port to bring in iron ore and its own large gas-fired power plant for electricity.
Among villages with thatch-roofed huts and dirt roads on the outskirts of this city in central India, John Deere and LG Electronics [...]

Every society is judged by how it treats it’s least fortunate amongst them.

Friday, February 10th, 2006

At a fund-raising dinner for a school that serves learning disabled children, the father of one of the students delivered a speech that would never be forgotten by all who attended. After extolling the school and its dedicated staff, he offered a question:
“When not interfered with by outside influences, everything nature does is done with [...]