Great Inspiration - Anita and Honey bees

This is a fantastic real life story of a teenage girl from Bihar who is a great Inspiration for everyone.

Given below are her accomplishments!
1) Anita's life story has been published in Class IV text book by the National Council of Educational Research and Training (NCERT) in the chapter titled “Anita and the honey bees”.
2) In 2006 UNICEF chose her as one of the ‘inspiring stories’ for its girl stars campaign.
3) She was declared 'star girl' by then President, APJ Abdul Kalam. ‘Girl Stars’ is a project
which tells extraordinary tales of ordinary girls who have changed their lives
by going to school.
4) She received the "Best Bee-Farming" award from Rajendra Agriculture University (RAU), Pusa, in Samastipur.
5) She has encouraged and inspired thousands of women in rural Bihar to be self-reliant.

Quotes
a) "I wanted to prove if men can do it, so can I or any other girl like me"
b) "I wanted to study but my parents and relatives in my village did not encourage. I realised that I have to help out myself. I need to fund my studies myself. Today, I have found a place in the textbooks. I want to work for the cause of the deprived children so that they also make it to the headlines and textbooks"
c) After meeting the president she said - "It was my biggest dream to meet the President of India. It felt really great"
d) After helping children in villages to overcome malnutrition -
"I feel immense pleasure in looking after malnourished children belonging to the minority community and downtrodden sections and help them overcome malnutrition by providing dietary supplements and guidance"

STORY
Anita Khushwaha lives in Bochaha village in Muzzafarpur District in Bihar(INDIA). She went to college and pursued her Bachelors in Arts (English).She also teaches children and keeps honeybees. She has faced several hardships to become an enterpreneur at the age of 14 after her education was denied by her parents initially. After being born in a poor family of agricultural labourers and convincing them to allow her to go to school since schooling was free till Class V, she taught children to pay for her education. She also persuaded her parents to allow her handle the honey making business and within a few months made a significant profit. This made the villagers to call her a 'queen bee'. A pucca house has replaced their modest dwelling and Anita has gifted a motorcycle to her younger brother. Every girl in her village goes to school now which is a significant achievement.

Link of the chapter: The chapter is given in the format as narrated by Anita and is wonderful.
http://ncert.nic.in/textbooks/testing/Index.htm Class IV -> Environmental Studies -> Looking Around(EVS) -> Chapter 5

Election Time - good one

A mother goat and a baby goat wanders into a forest. Unable to find its way the goats move deeper into the forest. The forest now looks quite peacefull and safe. A lion comes in the way and stares at the goats. Both the goats fear that it is their end. The lion comes nearer, pats the small goat and says 'Y do you fear? I am here to guard this forest' and looks at the goats in a friendly manner and leaves.
The baby goat is perplexed and looks at the mother goat. The mother goat tells 'Must be election time in the forest'

This scenario is a perfect view of the election time. Only during the election period there is proper supply of water, electricity, quality rations at promised rates, building of flyovers and parks in record time and regular visits by the candidates.

Stunning win for Netherlands - ICC T20 World Cup

Yesterday, I was watching the 1st match of the twenty20 world cup. Earlier, the opening ceremony was abandoned as bad weather delayed the start of the tournament. The game was played at LORD'S, England.

It was a shocker of a match for England fans in which the Dutch pulled out a last ball stunning win against England in the opening game of the 20-20 world cup. The Dutch recorded a sensational win to upset England's plans. Going forward, the England team would have to win the next match against Pakistan failing which it would be thrown out of this worldcup marking the major upset of this tournament.

England's Pietersen was out of the game which showed how lightly they had taken Netherland only because it was a minnow nation and since it did not even have test match playing status. But England collapsed under pressure as the Dutch went on to win this match. Splendid performance from Netherlands and the way they played, they deserved to win.

This match simply confirms the following observations made by almost everyone closely following the Twenty20 form of cricket.

1) The team which plays best on the match day wins. The past record of the teams playing doesn’t matter.
2) One player can take away the game since there is less time for the opposition to regain the momentum once lost.

Will the result of this match get to inspire the other minnows; will the defending champions India win against Bangladesh in today's match(to be played at 10.30pm IST) is yet to be seen!!

Below is the Video link of the after match moments and highlights including the last over of this fantastic match
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zODrolR8TVc