Happy New Year and Pray that we keep ourselves safe while treading positively out of this crisis time .. while we are at it, a word from my son to take us into the new year .. #HappyNewYear#Happy2022#HAPPYNEWYEAR2022#Cheer4India
When the next gen starts valuing luxury cars, expensive watches, Instagram posts and golf games over hard work and have a sense of entitlement- the countdown of the decline of the business empire has begun!
How 230 Irula tribal families in Ariyalur, Tamil Nadu, went from wage labourers to entrepreneurs, turning cashew harvests into prosperity. With support from the Tribal Welfare Department and the Tamil Nadu Forest Department, GOTN, they were empowered to lease, cultivate and market cashew directly, generating ₹1.37 crore in revenue and ₹45.5 lakh in net profit. Thank you @nscwrites@the_hindu@THChennai@ramyakannan@tnforestdept
When US-based doctor Ashok Jain visited his childhood school in India in 2020, the principal asked if he could help build a classroom for the students. He happily agreed. But when he shared the idea with his mother, she asked, "What will happen with one room?" Her question inspired Ashok to build an entirely new school for the village instead. Nearly six years later, the ₹7 crore school opened its doors to students in early 2026. Dr. Jain is also honoured with the Bharat Gaurav Award 2026 for his contributions to child healthcare and philanthropy.
Dadal village in Rajasthan is the hometown of doctor and healthcare entrepreneur Ashok Jain. He studied at the village school in the early 1970s, when there were no proper classrooms and children often learned under a tree. His family later shifted to Bengaluru, where Ashok completed the rest of his education. In the mid-1990s, he moved to the US, began his medical career in Chicago in 1998, and later settled in North Carolina. There, he founded KidzCare Pediatrics, which has grown into one of the state's largest pediatric healthcare networks. He also established the 200-bed hospital in Bengaluru.
On 26 January 2020, he was invited as the Republic Day chief guest to his village school. He returned to the school nearly after 40 years, and was saddened to find that many children were still studying in similar conditions. It was during this visit that the school management requested his help. The school project soon became a family dream. Jain's elder brother, Jeetmal Jain, fully supported the idea, and after his mother passed away in 2022, his wife encouraged him to begin construction, reminding him that "education is the greatest charity."
Construction began in 2023, and the whole village came together to make it possible. A local Rajput family even donated three bighas (about 2 acres) of land for the campus expansion. Built in memory of his parents, the new campus, named Shantidevi Chatarmalji Jain Government High School, is designed with architecture inspired by India's Parliament House and can accommodate nearly 1,200 students. It features spacious classrooms, computer labs, a skill development centre, sports courts, a playground, and an open gym.
Story courtesy, @indianeagle!
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Look up!
Look up to God.
Look up at the sky.
Sunday is the perfect day to reset and look up. Looking up isn’t just about dreaming - it’s about shifting your perspective. When you lift your eyes from your screen or your immediate stress, you see the bigger picture. Use today to clear your mind, set one practical goal, and step into the new week with focus 💕
Look up, it's good for you 🌺
🚨🩵🤍 Lisandro Martínez: “Leo Messi is a massive example because he has suffered a lot throughout his entire career, he has suffered losses and he never gave up”, told ESPN.
“Today he is here at 39 years old, fighting, battling, he has already won everything, he has absolutely nothing left to prove”.
“He is the best player in history, not just in football, but in all of sports. It's madness”.
“And for those of us coming up behind him, how can we not keep fighting if the best of all time does it with this kind of passion? We have to follow behind him in the exact same way”.
STEVE JOBS GOT FIRED FROM APPLE.
Then he walked straight into MIT and dropped the most raw, unfiltered 60-minute business masterclass ever recorded.
Zero PR bullshit. Zero image to protect.
Just pure, brutal honesty from the man who built Apple once and was about to rebuild it even bigger.
Stop scrolling.
Watch this tonight instead of Netflix.
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