Micro-entrepreneurs

I was just reading about entrepreneurs and entrepreneurship in India. Suddenly my focus shifted to the rural India where people with their positive approach, proactive thinking and enterprise are just looking for the right kind of opportunity to improve their lives. I came across a story of a woman from an orthodox Muslim family, having six children and a husband without a job. Finally, with the help of microfinance institutions, she set up her own school bag making unit. She is now earning comfortably enough to feed her six children. With the microcredit, microfinance, various non farm sector schemes, the rural women have become micro-entrepreneurs. And then I read a about a rural business school in Maharashtra. Now the women can look forward to technical training and know how on how to start and go about their project. The efforts, the spirit and the burning desire to do something, to move ahead with fervour is all that matters.
How the old adage stands true….”where there is a will, there is a way”.

My little Miss World

I thought that I'll write about the most beautiful woman I've ever seen in this world. Any guesses..well that's my grandma. With her shiny emerald blue eyes and a porcelain complexion, she has always been my Miss World! I remember my friends would come to my place and always remark, yaar, your grandmom is too beautiful. Till today, she enchants me and everybody around her with her beautiful smile and lovely eyes. With her crisp voice and a leader like attitude, I always thought she would have made a great business woman. The confidence with which she speaks English is amazing and she's never ever had any formal training in the language! She's always had thousands of anecdotes that we would listen to with gleaming eyes and eager ears. Today, even with episodes of lapses of memory, with her one liners, she keeps us in splits. She has taught us so many things by simply being what she is. Her petite frame, her tiny little steps, her innocent face, her sweet talks and above all, her warmth makes her the sweetest kid of the home....We all love you grandma!!!