Roshan Radhakrishnan's Blog, page 26

Clare Vaz is a Cake Angel #AtoZChallenge

Millie and Matt did not have the best start to their wedding week. Millie - who loves baking - had painstakingly made her own 3-tiered dream cake for her wedding and the couple had driven down carefully to the venue the previous day only to find to their horror that the cake had fallen to pieces in the trunk of the car. While her fiance was devastated, Millie was more calm outwardly though she watched sadly as the hotel took the smashed cake away, promising to have an alternative cake ready f...

Fethullah Üzümcüoğlu and Esra Polat's Wedding Reception #AtoZChallenge

Even as war and xenophobia raged wildly all around them, a Turkish bride and groom decided they wanted their special day to be one remembered for a love beyond two people.

The couple got married in Kilis near the Syrian border, a province that has seen many Syrian refugees flood in due to the heinous civil war occurring for years there.

Inspired by the words of the groom's father,  Fethullah Üzümcüoğlu and Esra Polat chose to invite 4,000 refugees to eat with them and celebrate for a day.

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Tirunelveli Wall of Kindness #AtoZChallenge

"Leave it if you don't need!
Take it if you need!
Clothes, books, toys, shoes,
chappals, other useable items"

These words are painted on the brightly coloured wall of no less than the Collecterate in Tirunelveli in Tamil Nadu, India.



The Tirunelveli 'Wall of Kindness' is an initiative of Sandeep Nanduri, the Tiruneliveli Collector, who realized that the Collectorate was a place where lots of people come and so ideal to raise awareness as well as get help for the poor and needy.



The vibrant art on t...

Alternatives to Plastic You Can Use At Home #SuperBloggerChallenge2018

Earth Day this year focuses on providing information and inspiration to eventually end plastic pollution.
Due to their unique nature, plastics take anywhere between 500 to a 1000 years to degrade. What this means is that whatever plastic exists now will still be there centuries later. This matters because in the end, all this ends up as pollution that reaches the bottom of the oceans and seas. Claiming to recycle plastic is at best a stop-gap measure. According to the World Economic Forum base...

Sucharita Tyagi Will Restore Your Faith in Social Media Kindness #AtoZChallenge

At 21, Nikita Shukla was a third year college student studying to be a lawyer at the Government Law College in Mumbai, India. But her story was not an ordinary one. The suffering she had faced to study this far was something quite unimaginable.

You see, Nikita is blind. Keeping this in mind, her parents did not wish for her to continue her studies after she had completed high school. When she resisted their attempts to get her married, the blind girl was forced to leave her own house by her pa...

Rockford Public School's Big-hearted Gesture #AtoZChallenge

Bethany Chambers' mother, Melissa called her school one morning with a request - she was hoping they could give Bethany's diploma to her three months in advance. If the request was unusual, the reason behind it was heartbreaking.

Bethany's father, Bob Chambers' had received a bone marrow transplant for leukemia earlier but had now found that the transplant was rejected by his body. With no more medical options left, Bob took the hard decision of choosing quality over quantity and leaving the h...

How Chef Quentin Love Gives Back to his Community #AtoZChallenge

Quentin Love has not had an easy life. Coming from a broken home on the mean streets of South Shore, Austin, he had been on the wrong side of the law influenced by gangs and drugs. He has risen and fallen numerous times. Which is why his turnaround is all the more inspiring.

Having gotten out of the gangs and later honorably discharged from the Marines, Quentin struggled with various ventures including running barber shops and dry cleaners. It was when he finally decided to give back to his co...

How Parkash Chhibber Chose to Pay Forward Kindness #AtoZChallenge

Parkash Chhibber was off to a good start in life, newly wed and riding a wave of success in his career when he was hit by a car in 1992 while sitting at a bus stop in New Delhi, resulting in nine fractures and leaving him bedridden and without work for two years. Financially, things got so bad that there were days when he and his wife had no food to eat and had to travel on crutches to friends' houses, hoping to be invited for a meal.

"I went from king to beggar in one night," he recalled. Dur...

Operation Sulaimani #AtoZChallenge

In more than 200 restaurants in Kozhikode, a city in Kerala, India you can see a box filled with notes and coins next to the cashier. And on that box is labeled two words - Operation Sulaimani.

An initiative started by District Collector N Prashant who believed in the compassion of his fellow Keralities, Operation Sulaimani began in 2015 and remains a huge success even today.

Under Operation Sulaimani, donations from the public go into boxes  strategically placed throughout the city. The m...

The Secret of the 9 Nanas #AtoZChallenge

For more than 35 years, 9 women from Tennessee have been part of a secret group that would stealthily seek out houses in low-income neighbourhoods, looking for specific features. Having chosen their targets, they would return before the sun came up. The women called themselves The 9 Nanas.

The idea began 30 years ago when the 9 women were sitting around playing cards and thinking of MaMaw and PaPaw (grandparents to 4 of the 9 women) and how MaMaw would always keep track of who died in the area...