Gudipati

This morning I was just going through some of my collections, in my last trip to UP, I had been to couple of places in Amethi and Rae Bareli districts, it was amazing to see that there were two kids playing cricket at a residential area, they used the space in front of some shopping blocks. For a moment I enjoyed watching them, they were only two and were turning themselves as batsman and a bowler as they left with no choice . There were no restrictions of the game, no power play, no umpire and the best part is there was no technology in the game yet they were happy. The most important part in this kids play was ‘no betting’. Just recollect the instances of those who excelled in ‘betting’ while started their passion and dream to become a ‘world class cricketer’. Friends, cricket or any other sport is a simple activity and one should enjoy like these kids , I again recollect a quote by a famous film director in one of the TV shows, it goes.. “Don’t be so attached to the result...

Facilitator (Trainer) in an NGO, Lucknow. I never forget the day when I have visited one of the centers in UP on August 26, 2011. I have drawn so much inspiration after meeting one of the trainers on that day. Meeting people and knowing something about them is always fun for me and I enjoy doing so. I always feel blessed being in this organisation that I have so much access to reach people across the country to learn something new from them and share with the world. I have read somewhere that ‘sharing always doubles one's knowledge’ , since then I have been sharing what I have learnt from different sources like; books, training programs and especially from different people whom I met. I am content in this journey. It was my first visit to the training centers in UP,  I noticed that some of our facilitators were chewing tobacco and for them it was quite common in UP. Among four of them three were habituated to tobacco. I understood the intensity of their habit, I felt to do some...