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Blackhole

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P C Musthafa : From a coolie's son to the CEO of 100 crore company.


Idli Dosa Man





P C Musthafa was born in a small village of Chennalode near Kalpatta in Wayanad. His father was a coolie and his never mother never went to school. His village was so remote that it had only primary school.

He had a very deep interest in studies but due to electricity problem he faced difficulty in studying at night. He was very good in mathematics. But after failing in Class 6 he lost interest in his studies.

His maths teacher was aware of his talent and encouraged him to study. The impact was such that not only he started his studies with new zeal he became topper in Class 7 and then he never looked back. He stood first in Class 10.
For further studies, his father's friend suggested to join Farooq College in Kozhikode (Calicut). In those days junior college was known as pre-degree. There he was one of the 15 students who were offered free stay and food, as he could not afford to pay. Others looked at him with disdain. There he worked very hard. Then he wrote engineering entrance exam after his college and was ranked No 63 in the state. He got admission at the Regional Engineering College (now the National Institute of Technology).

From there his tables turned. He worked very hard. Improved himself and moreover God was with him. When he graduated in 1995, he got placed at Manhattan Associates, an Indian start-up in the US.

Then he worked in Citibank and moved to Dubai. His father cried when he sent money to his father. He paid of his debt and he helped his sister.
In 2003 he returned to India. he decided to do MBA and got admission in IIMB. Even while studying at IIM-B, He would constantly discuss business plans with his cousins. Shamsuddin, one of his cousins, had seen dosa batter being sold in plastic bags tied with a rubber band in nearby stores and suggested they would make and supply dosa batter. . He decided to invest Rs 25,000 and start a company immediately.
Five of his cousins decided to join the company .They began with 550 square feet and started with two grinders, a mixer and a sealing machine. They named the venture ID Fresh as they planned to supply fresh dosa and idli batter. The best part of their venture was that they started making profits from day one. They started with Rs. 400 as a profit and they continuously expanded their business. Their investment increased and after completing his MBA he joined the company as CEO.
They expanded their business to other cities like Chennai, Mangaluru, Mumbai, Pune and Hyderabad. His friends and relatives joined him to take ID Fresh to the next level.

Today, they produce around 50,000 kg in their plant. Their total investment is around Rs 4 crore and their revenue is Rs 100 crore . He grew his company from 10 packets a day in 2005 to 50,000 packets a day. Now they support 1,100 employee approximately.

He always wanted to be an entrepreneur and he succeeded in what he dreamt of. Born in a modest family today he is the owner of a 100 crore company. He left all the lucrative jobs to become what he dreamt to be. He dreams to make ID as the most trusted brand. His story is truly inspirational.
 

Blackhole

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UnSUng HEROES




Dr. T.S Kanakala is Asia’s first female neurosurgeon to break the myth that only men can do surgeries. When Kanakala opted for neurosurgery in the 60’s, she took her first step towards a challenging world said to be ruled by men. She was born in Chennai and was one among eight children of Padmavathi and Santhanakrishna, the Deputy Director of Public Instruction.

Struggles:
It was a struggle back in 1960’s when medical profession was majorly a male world with only a handful of women practitioners. Kanakala broke the male bastion with her will and hard work. At that time when women were never admitted to the master’s program in general surgery, she was one among other two women who were admitted to the M.S. general surgery.

She was never given a chance to hold a knife as male doctors would alone perform surgeries. She took the final exam six times as the external examiner failed her every time she appeared. Crossing many hurdles and witnessing favoritism in a profession that treats the human body as equal, she finally earned her MS in surgery.

Achievements:
Life was not easy for Dr Kanakala even after she received her MS degree. Her academic papers were always put under a microscope by her fellow researchers in the United States. She was posted at Government General Hospital, Chennai before she volunteered to serve the Indian Army at the end of 1962- 63 India-China aggression.

It was only when the assistant surgeon was on leave and she got a chance to prove her skills and learnings and formally became a surgeon under Dr A. Venugopal. Later she learned and honed her skills under the guidance of Dr B. Ramamurthy and became first woman neurosurgeon in Asia.

Apart from working full-time at Government General Hospital, she also worked with the Adyar Cancer Institute, Epidemiological Research Centre, Hindu Mission Hospital and Tirumala Tirupati Devasthanams. She also worked with numerous organisations that helped the people who could not afford good healthcare facilities.

Efforts for society:
Dr Kanakala is not only brave and dedicated but very compassionate too. After retiring from GGH in 1990, she started the Sri Santhanakrishna Padmavathi Health, Care and Research Centre, named after her parents in Chrompet. The foundation offers several services, such as free medical – checkup and yoga classes.

A life completely devoted to medicine and helping others, she chose to remain single. Her dream is to develop deep brain stimulation kits for stereotaxic surgeries locally, so the treatment can be made easily accessible.

The Logical Indian team salutes Dr. Kanakala, a winner of life time achievement award for doing things differently from others and devoting her time, efforts and earnings for the betterment of the society.
 

Blackhole

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Kalki Subramaniam
Tamil Nadu


India’s first transgender entrepreneur, journalist, filmmaker and social activist is an inspiration to all and pride to the nation.





“Be courageous, be with hope, don’t fear, and don’t rush.”
January 2016
 

Blackhole

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What would have you done had you become a doctor & philanthropist? Treat patients for free at the maximum? Dr. Amte has risked his life and his social participation selflessly and relentlessly served this section of downtrodden and forgotten people in the heart of India.

Dr. Prakash Amte is a selfless doctor and social worker who devoted his life towards the development and upliftment of the tribal people in the forests of eastern Maharashtra.
In 2008, Dr. Prakash and his wife, Mandakini, were given the Magsaysay award for service to humanity. (Twenty-three years previously, Prakash's father, the legendary Baba Amte, had received the same award.)
Other awards:

Mother Teresa Awards for Social Justice.
Lokmanya Tilak Award - Jointly with Dr Vikas Amte
Godfrey Philips Lifetime Achievement Award
Ramon Magsaysay Award for Community Leadership - Jointly with his wife Dr Mandakini Amte
Padma Shri, Government of India[9]
Adivasi Sevak Award, from Government of Maharashtra, India



Unique Honour for Dr.Prakash and Dr.Mandakini Amte – Postage Stamp by Kingdom of Monaco







After finishing his doctor degree, Prakash's father Baba Amte, took him on a picnic to Hemalkasa. It was a turning point in Prakash's life. He became restless seeing that, while people had reached the moon, there were people were living as animals. They use to hunt and sleep under the tree.

He left his M.S. and moved to 'Hemalkasa' (a naxalite rural area in Maharashtra, India)to start the Lok Biradari Prakalp in 1973, a project for the development of tribal people in the forests of Gadchirolli district in 1973.

Today, Hemalkasa runs a 50-bed hospital and an OPD that treats over 40,000 Madia tribals a year.

It has a residential school up to Class XII for 650 Madia boys and girls and a training programme for barefoot doctors.

ALL OF THIS FREE OF CHARGE.




Their principle: Charity destroys, work builds

When he and his new bride Dr. Mandakini came to Hemalkasa in 1973, they had nothing but two thatched huts to live in, and the fierce jungle around.

For six months, not a single tribal would come near them.
To live in Hemalkasa in the 1970s meant poverty and utter isolation.

No electricity for 17 years
No supplies
No school
No community

Food meant a simple, unchanging menu of rice and dal
Darkness meant the hiss of the hurricane lamp.

For six months in the year, Hemalkasa was completely cut off from the rest of the country because of flooding of river

All of this would make an urban doctor faint, but in truth, it speaks of daily miracles over three decades.

It speaks of lives saved without elaborate investigations or prophylactics.

It speaks of urgent operations under torchlight, of emergency deliveries and complicated cataracts executed on the run with a textbook on the side.

Broken bones were set without X rays and surgery was carried out under the light of kerosene lamps!










Dr Prakash’s first delivery was an emergency caesarean: a tranverse baby dead in the womb, a mother in shock. He had to literally cut the baby limb by limb out of the mother’s body one night without anaesthesia in candlelight. She walked away the next day. A couple of years later, she returned to deliver a healthy child, alleviating some of the tortured dilemmas of that night.





In an interview with Tehelaka, reporter asked him what kept him in Hemalkasa through all this and his response was instinctive and quick. “Manda’s companionship — and the people’s faith. That is what keeps us here. I have never seen such tolerance for pain. They come to us from a radius of 200 kilometres, we try to help them. Sometimes when I cut their wounds, the pus sprays onto my face and body. We never had gloves but it never mattered. When I watch their wounds — black, poisonous, foul-smelling — slowly turning red and healthy, that is my reward.”

During winter Season, the tribals had no good clothes, Dr. Prakash saw them shivering in the cold in Decembers and told Mandakini "They are suffering with cold outside, I have no right to wear full clothes." and from that day you can see any of his Hemalkasa's interviews, he never wore full clothes.


‘Amte's Animal Ark’\\

Hemalkasa has an animal Orphanage first of it's kind in India which is maintained by his family

One day while wandering in the jungle, Dr. Prakash saw some tribals returning from a hunting spree. They had killed two Bonnet Macaques (kind of monkey) and were carrying them slung on a rod. One of them was a female and to her breast was clinging a baby Macaque, who was still alive. Moved by the sight, Prakash persuaded the tribals to give him the baby.
Over the next two days he bottle-fed the monkey and soon it forgot its own mother and came to regard Prakash as its mother. Prakash called it Babli and she went on to become the first inmate of the ‘Animal Orphanage’ at Hemalkasa.
When the tribals saw Prakash’s love for animals, they began bringing to him all orphaned, diseased and hurt animals as gifts, by way of gratitude towards their beloved doctor.
Today the list of animals at the LBP ‘Animal Orphanage’ is inexhaustible- leopards, lions, barking deer, mouse deer, chameleons, Nilgai (blue Indian bull), otters, wild boars, hyenas, vipers, cobras, kraits, owls, eagles, civet cats, crocodiles and monkeys.




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Three generations of the family have dedicated their whole lives for this great cause.
Truly Inspirational Indian :)
There is a biopic based on his life Dr. Prakash Baba Amte: The Real Hero (2014) (imdb 8.7)
'Prakashwata' is a book written by him with very absorbing narrative of the struggles by him and his wife.





Sources: Prakash Amte ,Hemalkasa, Photo Gallery / akshay pawar ... q u o r a
 
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