Three Thousand Stitches: Ordinary People, Extraordinary Lives

by Sudha Murty

‘A language is but a vehicle. It’s the person inside who’s weaving the story that’s more important.

The first introduction should always be positive and bring real hope to the beneficiary.

I aimed to become self-sufficient; I would be my best friend and my worst enemy. I didn’t know then that such a quote already existed in the Bhagavad Gita where Krishna says, ‘Atma aiva hi atmano bandhu aatma aiva ripu atmanah’.

Things were more fluid and life was simple, and I was but a bud flowering in this forest of my own.

‘It depends on the individual. If you decide to fulfil your vow with your heart and soul, then the desire for the object goes away with time and that way of life simply becomes a habit.’

The concept that you automatically gain class by acquiring money is an outdated thought process.’