For a full year, I had stopped posting stories. Today it is January 1, 2022, and my resolution for the year is to post many stories on this site. The first stories will appear within a week or so. I plan to write (mostly) stories for children – stories from different cultures and different countries,…
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The Story of these stories
On 31st December 2020, I published the 100th story on this website. I began publishing the ‘inspiring’ stories on 14th April 2020, soon after the pandemic lockdown was imposed in California, where I live now. After publishing 60 stories in the first 60 days, I slowed down, and finally completed 100 stories by the end…
097. Mairead Corrigan and Betty Williams: Partners for Peace in Northern Ireland
Mairead Corrigan Betty Williams On August 10, 1976, three children were struck and killed by the getaway car of a nationalist Irish Republican Army gunman in Belfast, Northern Ireland. The children were two nephews and a niece of Mairead Corrigan, an office secretary and a Catholic. Mairead’s sister, Anne, was badly hurt in the…
078. E S Reddy: Crusader against apartheid in South Africa
E S Reddy Enuga Sreenivasulu Reddy died in Massachusetts, US, on November 1, 2020. He was not well-known in India, but the New York Times carried his obituary on November 5, 2020. What did he do to attract that much of interest? Reddy was born in 1924 in the village of Pallapalli, Andhra Pradesh, India….
058. Plachimada: Who owns the ground water?
Mayilamma: Iconic Face of the Plachimada Struggle If a soft drink industry owns a piece of land, can it exploit the ground water without any limit? This is the core issue in what came to be known as the Plachimada case in Kerala, India. In January 2000, the Perumatty Panchayat gave permission to Hindustan Coca-Cola…