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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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 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

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

Supermarkets are part of the upmarket urban landscape. But Nadeem Jafri took his retail chain to the city’s underbelly and villages creating rural entrepreneurs, says Kavita Kanan Chandra

MC Mary Kom has been taking on the world on her own terms with uninterrupted success. Her next goal: gold in London Olympics. The five-time women’s world boxing champion spoke to Ajay Rana

A lawyer by profession Vasuki Sunkavalli took to modelling and ended up becoming Miss Universe India 2011. But she is not thinking of films yet. Her eyes are set on the Miss Universe title