Does poverty hinder people to succeed in life?

I have asked this questions many a time to myself and my conscience has always given me an answer as " No".

I strongly believe , if a person has will power and self confidence and want to make a mark for himself / herself in this world , will create history and make their parents proud.



In Tamil , there is a say " Eendra Pozhuthinum perithuvakkum than makanai saandron ena ketta thai" . The meaning of this is , A mother feels extreemly proud and happy when she hears about her son's acheivement by others, than at the time of delivering him.



One day when I was watching a talk show in one of the channel , I was stunned to see an acheivement of a girl who doesn't have her two hands, but has cleared her public exam in flying colours. She got some where around 400 out of 500. She writes with her legs, she eats with her legs and with the same leg she walks. My conscience asked me to get up and I stood up from my chair and I saluted her (though she couldn't see me) . She comes from a very poor family.



In the last year public exams in the state of Tamil Nadu, a boy who's mother is a servant maid , works on part time in delivering papers to the house hold in the morning, came first in the state. The boy who was delivering the news to the household , himself became a News item by becoming a true hero for the younger generation.

Again a Security Guard's son came top in flying colours in the state board .



So my conscience is always right and so as your conscience will say so while you go through this news item given below.



The New Indian Express - Published on September 28 2007 , Page 4


Ahmedabad's food Bizkid all set to enter Chennai

Having taken India Inc by surprise in a rather trodden path of food catering after an MBA from IIM-Ahm- edabad, E Sarath Babu, the boy from a Chennai slum is planning to estab- lish a chain of institutional cafeterias in the City. ‘Yes, the talks are on, though I am yet to finalise the finer details,'' E Sharth Babu, CEO of the Ahmedabad's Foodking, told Express. At present, he is running a successful catering service in Ahme- dabad, Goa, and Pilani. ‘‘I am a South Indian and I thought If I start the service in Chennai first, it would end up being branded a Southie com- pany. Now having estab- lished a chain successfully in North, it's high time I started the one in Chennai.'' At 29, this BITS Pilani Chemical Engineering graduate's turnover may not enthuse you, that's just Rs 1.2 lakh a day. But you would wonder to know that he refused many cool offers that was extended to an IIM-A graduate to establish a greasy industry sans glamour. His proud moth- er Deepa Ramani used to sell idlis from her Madippakkam slum home to raise up the fami- ly till recently. Babu was in Chennai to participate in a seminar on celebrating Indian Entrepreneurship organ- ised jointly by the Swadeshi Jagran Manch and the Meenakshi School of Management.


Hope you agree with me now...