But I want to be clear. You moved your goods to market on roads the rest of us paid for. You hired workers the rest of us paid to educate. You were safe in your factories because of the police forces and fire forces the rest of us paid for. You didn’t have to worry that marauding bands would come and seize everything at your factory…

Now look. You built a factory and it turned into something terrific or a great idea – God bless! Keep a big hunk if it. But part of the underlying social contract is that you take a hunk of that and pay forward for the next kid who comes along.

Today a friend of mine found out what pay it forward really means. He left on a business trip Sunday night. He was late for a flight and apparently the airline he flies has a new policy. If you have not checked in forty-five minutes prior to departure, your luggage automatically is placed on the next flight to wherever you are flying. He was a few minutes off so his luggage was put onto another…

A new circle of help

She had found ShikshaDaan on the internet and given Krishnan a call. In the email, she wrote that she had managed to do her first and second year B.Tech degree and was looking for funds to continue her education. Her parents are working as cooks and could not fund her education further…. We didn’t know her, we didn’t know anyone known to her and this was a first for ShikshaDaan. Krishnan asked…

I can do all things

There are times, probably on a daily basis that I feel overwhelmed, so many things to do and how to fit it all in a 24-hour period. There are things that seem too big for me to do by myself, but I don’t give up and I encourage you to never give up and to never be the source of discouragement for anyone who is trying to do his or her best.

This week someone, in talking of a young person, said,…