"India has three years to address the 'anger of the socially disadvantaged' before 'extremist reactions' fracture the sub-continent."

It is hard to imagine that ten years ago this place was scrub and jungle; and here, we have now, this place with all its foundries and its workshops. This great enterprise has been due to the prescience, imagination and genius of the late Mr Jamsetji Tata. This place will see a change in its name and will be identified with the name of its Founder, bearing down through the ages his name. Hereafter, this place will be known as Jamshedpur.

Deven Mukhi, a Harijan who started as a sweeper, explains why this was a miracle

R. Appal Raju, a trade unionist, recalls

Vijayam Kartha, Director of a leading educational institution, narrates how education is the key to lasting social change

Budheshwar Mahato stops selling liquor and starts organic farm on his eight acre plot

Dr. Amit Mukherjee, an orthopaedic surgeon, tells how his hospital was saved from becoming a sick unit and instead began to grow healthier

Chandreshwar Khan, Asst. General Manager (Training), Tata Motors, recalls how listening to his inner voice added to his spiritual base and improved his family life as well as his training programmes

Indrajit Singh gave up smoking, built a continuously growing corpus of Rs. 16,000 from the money saved and began to organise training programmes for his company TRF Ltd.

Lalan Sharma, a young teacher, spells out what a life of commitment means to him

“I shall be alive in the grave and, what is more, speaking from it,” wrote Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi on 7 August 1947, just a week before India gained independence. A few days earlier he had said, “we should fast and pray on Aug. 15…”, “unfortunately the kind of freedom we have got today contains also the seeds of future conflict with Pakistan.” How prophetic were those words!

Initiatives of Change offers young people a priceless opportunity of a six month internship in the IofC way of life. With the completion of another internship programme, these interns returned to their own homes with a new commitment to bring change. This is what they are taking back...

As Viji and Jyothi play their role in the world the children get hope for a brighter future.

“Son,” said the father, “you don’t know what you are asking. Someone with such a handicap would be a terrible burden on us. We have our own lives to live and we can’t let something like this interfere with our lives. I think you should just come home and forget about this guy. He’ll find a way to live on his own.”

Teacher: Mala, go to the map and find North America.
Mala: Here it is.
Teacher: Correct. Now class, who discovered America?
Class: Mala.

Teacher: John, why are you doing your math multiplication on the floor?
John: You told me to do it without using tables.

Teacher: Abdul, what is the chemical formula for water?
Abdul: H I J K L M N O
Teacher: What are you talking about?
Abdul: Yesterday you said it’s H to O.

Teacher: Can anybody give an example of COINCIDENCE?