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Record recruitment

A record number of 1820 students at VIT got job offers on a single day from Cognizant. VIT’s current batch has found dream offers with salaries ranging from Rs.4.5 to Rs.10.5 lakhs per annum

Push the limits

Laila Ali, former boxing world champ and daughter of legendary boxer Muhammed Ali, has an incredible 24-0 record with 21 knockouts. She tells Anu Gulmohar how she pushed the limits to get ahead

Quiz of succour

It is more a fairytale: A 27-year-old widow, deep in debts, answering Amitabh Bachchan’s questions and walking away with Rs 640,000. Mauli Buch meets Aparna Malikar for whom KBC was godsend

Create history

Bestselling author, Rashmi Bansal, who has interviewed many successful people, tells us not to give up hope while pursuing our passions, even if others laugh at the idea, dubbing it foolish

A friend forever

Make hope a friend in life’s journey, says Revathi Turaga, who lists out a few scientifically and psychologically researched practical benefits of hope, urging us to have a grip on reality

Never give up

Likening life to a roller-coaster, which also goes down at times, Roopleen Prasad cites examples of success stories of people, who refused to give up, underlining the fact that hope triumphs

 
Gut feeling

While setting goals one should go by his or her gut feeling, as more often than not it will be right, says a new study which also claims that the unconscious mind is smarter than we think

Inspiring readers

US-based author Saborna Roychowdhury finds hope in the support of readers, most of whom she had not even met. Otherwise, she cannot be doing what she wants to do, that is writing full time

Changing cops

IPS officer, Prateep V Philip, hopes to change the police. A common man helping him when he was injured in the bomb blast that killed Rajiv Gandhi in 1991 gave him the hope to go for change

Healthy vision

Prathap Reddy brought world class healthcare to India when no one had thought about it. It was just hope, as the founder of Apollo Hospitals himself says, that made him return from the US

Incredible India

India may seem to be a functional anarchy to a curious visitor. But Sankarshan Thakur has hope that its democracy is on a firm ground as things happen between the positives and negatives

Move mountains

Hope can move mountains is just a cliché. It does much more to individuals, says P C Vinoj Kumar as TWL marks its First Anniversary by dedicating two weekend issues to look at hope from the perspective of those who hoped and moved mountains

 
Community enterprise

Women from the fishing village of Worli in Mumbai are reaching out to markets worldwide through jewellery created from fallen wood, glass and the like, thanks to entrepreneur Tarun Thadani

A taste of change

A sweet revolution is on in the sugarcane fields of Maharashtra’s Aurangabad district, where best management practices have been ushered in, helping women farmers, says Nitin Jugran Bahuguna

Coffee lady

After founding a coffee bar at Ramallah, Huda El-Jack broke the glass ceiling and become the first CEO of a publicly traded Palestinian business. Abigail Klein Leichman profiles the woman

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