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Inspiring Little Stories -K.R.Narayanan
K.R. Narayanan was born in abject poverty to illiterate parents in a scheduled tribe. HIs father and
mother were illiterate. Being from a low caste he and his family had to undergo so may humiliating ecxperinecnces apart from the abject poverty at home.
He had no influential relative at all.
He had to walk five kilometers up and five down to go to a primary school. Most of the days he went empty stomached and half naked. Think of the way the poor young boy walked all the way to the school and back in such a scorching heat dreaming big all the time. When he passed school he had no means to go to a college. But still he dared! All by his own efforts he joined a distant one.
He had to take tuitions to meet the cost of his high school and college education. Still, he studied so nicely that he got scholarship and went for higher studies. His hard work took him to England and once he graduated, he returned to India with a letter of recommendation from his famous professor to Nehru who inducted him into the Indian Foreign service (I.F.S.). He worked efficiently as India’s ambassador in a number of countries including China and many others and retired as a known man.
After retirement he did not sit idle at home. He joined the congress party and got elected three times to the parliament. He had great ambitions. He was soon inducted into the Union Cabinet. Later Mr. Narayanan was elected unanimously as India’s vice president. After five years, he became the president of the country. And he became one of the ablest presidents ever.
His story illustrates how one can reach the very top from humble beginnings. And of course he is an example to all.
From the lives of the great people one and all we learn that
Success comes from one’s own efforts regardless of one’s wealth or status at birth. .
Published: February 06, 2008
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