Um Hong-gil

 Well, this person has accomplished a lot. But what stands out the most is how he tried to get back the body of his friend from Mt Everest's Death Zone. The Himalayas movie has captured just that. What an extraordinary person indeed - real inspiration!

Pratiksha Tondwalkar

 https://zeenews.india.com/economy/from-sweeper-to-becoming-sbis-agm-pratiksha-tondwalkars-struggle-and-success-story-is-inspiring-beyond-words-2829944.html

This story of perseverance gives goosebumps...! 

"Whenever my son asked for a packet of biscuits, I would get off one stop early on the bus just so that I could save the money to be able to afford them"

Timmarusu

Timmarusu was the Prime Minister of Vijayanagar Empire for Sri Krishnadevaraya, and he was the primary reason for many of the emperor's success. Many of the strategies and war tactics were from Timmarusu, even the throning of Sri Krishnadevaraya himself! His life is like a hero's character in a thriller movie but his ending is so pitiable. Truly a stimulating person in the history of Southern India...

Ernest Shackleton

Documentary

Wiki

What a great explorer!!

Major Deependra Sengar

 From an underweight candidate to Indian Army to being crippled to work in Microsoft - now that's inspiring or what?! Read synopsis.

Fred Rogers

Wow, what a man! I came across this personality in this movie...and I cannot stop thinking about him...!

Darryl Burton

https://www.darrylburton.org/

Need I say more....?

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Checkmated Marottichal!

http://www.bbc.com/travel/story/20170511-the-indian-village-addicted-to-chess

Unbelievable that the whole city turned to Chess to get rid of alcohol addiction - thanks to Mr Unnikrishnan!!

Freedom

For those who defend it, Freedom has a taste that the protected will never know!

- Seen on a car sticker

Jerry Garcia / Roadrunner

Live the life you love.
Love the life you live.

Ashwin

There are more stimulating stories in this than just one - 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Vu0EJi-F44&list=PLuOI2Oe0kP-F7Vm5JbLKsminkpxarNGwc

Mohammed Shami's story

Wow - this story is unimaginable! The father sending the son away to play cricket, the boy practicing hard, someone seeing him and taking him home and then releasing him to a better club...and then the boy succeeding in his very first match [Wiki: "He had a dream debut, taking 9 wickets for 118 runs - the most by an Indian pacer on debut"]!!

For the Indian ladies.....

...here comes a BIG relief!!! Welcome home, the "Romantic" Rotimatic!!
Truly applaud the founder to take it from conception to completion!!

Sachin Tendulkar

Do I need to say anything more??

Miracle In The Andes

This is as inspiring as it can get. 
Read all about Nando at his own URL.

Alexander Kumar

Wow, what a man, what spirit!!

Lived life to his fullest and not yet 30. Stayed in Arctic, Antarctic and not to mention 60 odd countries. At gun-point in Cambodia, teaching in Nepal, Adventure in Amazon - the list goes on.

Check him out at his website - http://www.alexanderkumar.com/

I got to know about him through this link.

Amazing!!

Greenway Stove

Neha Juneja came up with the idea of developing the Greenway stove after a visit to a village in Wardha, Maharashtra, where she saw a small home with a television, refrigerator, mobile phones, and motorbike. Yet the lady of the house was cooking on a mud stove.

http://www.rediff.com/getahead/slide-show/slide-show-1-achievers-indian-entrepreneurs-win-intel-global-challenge/20121128.htm

Vineet Devaiah

"I started a company when I was 15, and I sold it for a million dollars."

http://venturebeat.com/2012/10/09/vineet-devaiah/

Sunil Tolani

Extract


When Sunil Tolani arrived in the United States in July 1993, he was earning a mere four dollars per hour as a cashier at an ARCO gas station and a delivery driver for a small warehouse at Canara Technologies. In his mid-twenties, the Mumbai native arrived in Southern California with the same aspirations as many immigrants before him: he wanted to live the American Dream.

Nearly 19 years later, Tolani, now 44, is indeed living his American Dream. The Indian American entrepreneur now owns and operates 14 major hotel franchises in several states and retains a minority ownership stake in a semiconductor company. Based on his hotels alone, Tolani told India-West that he anticipates generating revenues of $35 million in 2012 — a far cry from the near minimum wage salary he earned almost 19 years ago.

http://indiawest.com/news/4818-hotelier-sunil-tolani-racing-to-the-top-with-his-multi-million-dollar-empire.html 

Change

“So many people live within unhappy circumstances and yet will not take the initiative to change their situation because they are conditioned to a life of security, conformity, and conservatism, all of which may appear to give one peace of mind, but in reality nothing is more dangerous to the adventurous spirit within a man than a secure future. The very basic core of a man’s living spirit is his passion for adventure. The joy of life comes from our encounters with new experiences, and hence there is no greater joy than to have an endlessly changing horizon, for each day to have a new and different sun.”
— Chris McCandless

Subject: Excerpt from Into the wild

Ron, I really enjoy all the help you have given me and the times we spent together. I hope that you will not be too depressed by our parting. It may be a very long time before we see each other again. But providing that I get through this Alaskan Deal in one piece you will be hearing form me again in the future. I’d like to repeat the advice I gave you before, in that I think you really should make a radical change in your lifestyle and begin to boldly do things which you may previously never have thought of doing or been to hesitant to attempt. So many people live within unhappy circumstances and yet will not take the initiative to change their situation because they are conditioned to a life of security, conformity, and conservatism, all of which may appear to give one peace of mind, but in reality nothing is more damaging to the adventurous spirit within a man than a secure future. The very basic core of a man’s living spirit is his passion for adventure. The joy of life comes from our encounters with new experiences, and hence there is no greater joy than to have an endlessly changing horizon, for each day to have a new and different sun. If you want to get more out of life, Ron, you must lose your inclination for monotonous security and adopt a helter-skelter style of life that will at first appear to you to be crazy. But once you become accustomed to such a life you will see its full meaning and its incredible beauty. And so, Ron, in short, get out of Salton City and hit the Road. I guarantee you will be very glad you did. But I fear that you will ignore my advice. You think I am stubborn, but you are even more stubborn than me. You had a wonderful chance on your drive back to see one of the greatest sights on earth, the Grand Canyon, something every American should see at least once in his life. But for some reason incomprehensible to me you wanted nothing but to bolt for home as quickly as possible, right back to the same situation which you see day after day after day. I fear you will follow this same inclination in the future and thus fail to discover all the wonderful things that God has placed around us to discover. Don’t settle down and sit in one place. Move around, be nomadic, make each day a new horizon. You are still going to live a long time, Ron, and it would be a shame if you did not take the opportunity to revolutionize your life and move into an entirely new realm of experience.

You are wrong if you think Joy emanates only or principally from human relationships. God has placed it all around us. It is in everything and anything we might experience. We just have to have the courage to turn against our habitual lifestyle and engage in unconventional living.

My point is that you do not need me or anyone else around to bring this kind of light in your life. It is simply waiting out there for you to grasp it, and all you have to do is reach for it. The only person you are fighting is yourself and your stubbornness to engage in new circumstances.

Ron, I really hope that as soon as you can you will get out of Salton City, put a little camper on the back of your pickup, and start seeing some of the great work that God has done here in the American West. you will see things and meet people and there is much to learn from them. And you must do it economy style, no motels, do your own cooking, as a general rule spend as little as possible and you will enjoy it much more immensely. I hope that the next time I see you, you will be a new man with a vast array of new adventures and experiences behind you. Don’t hesitate or allow yourself to make excuses. Just get out and do it. Just get out and do it. You will be very, very glad that you did.

Take care Ron,

Alex