This Week's Top Stories About Inspirational Stories Of Successful Persons In India

Inspirational stories of successful persons in india - Success requires rigorous and consistent efforts, to step out of the comfort zone, and not giving up until you achieve what you want.

In order to be successful in life or career, do not be scared to fail instead learn from it. The world is full of such inspirational successful stories, of which, failure is an integral part.

Keep moving and each time we will learn something new; Stop and we will become dead. Keep moving forward is the only way to ensure that the journey goes on and that failure isn't an alternative to success; it's just a temporary setback.

It can very well be an opportunity to explore one more path towards our destination. We have a tendency to belittle, or disown, our failures in the face of success, and that's a big folly. Even the most successful people achieved what they wanted, surpassing the hurdles on their path.

Everybody knows the story of Gandhi, Ratan Tata, Einstein, Walt Disney, Bill Gates, and Steve Jobs and their meteoric rise to success despite all odds. These inspirational success stories are a source of motivation for all of us. They keep us going on the way to our destination, irrespective of the problems we face.

Although there are many successful stories in entrepreneurs, in this article, we bring to you some inspirational stories of successful persons in India. These stories are nothing short of inspiring and prove one fact over and over again – everything is possible; if we have the will to accomplish it!

1. Ashok Khade

Ashok Khade

His father was a cobbler. He worked under a tree in the bustling city of Mumbai.

Ashok Khade was born in a village called Ped in Maharashtra's Sangli district. One of 6-children in the family, he had to often go to sleep without a meal. Coming from the dalit community of Chamars, their traditional job was to skin dead animals.

Ashok's mother had to work as an agricultural labourer in the farms of upper caste land owners. From social ostracisation to lack of opportunities, Ashok's family faced discrimination each step of the way.

Braving all odds, he went to college and then worked at a government-run shipyard in the city. After acquiring the required skills in offshore maintenance and construction, Ashok started his own company, DAS Offshore, which today employs 4,500 people and has an annual turnover of Rs 500 crore.

2. Kalpesh Patel

Kalpesh Patel; source: The Youth

Kalpesh was only 5-months old when he lost one of his legs to polio. Bedridden for several months, he suffered from a prolonged fever as the deadly virus spread into his body. By the time Kalpesh had fully recovered, the Surat boy had lost one of his limbs.

Undeterred, he fought hard to make something of his life. Owing to his family's financial situation, he couldn't study beyond Class XI, but he never stopped learning in life.

Kalpesh supported his father in the small diamond trading family business and started learning the tricks of the trade. Tragedy struck the family when his father passed away when the boy was just 18-years old. Being the eldest among his siblings, the responsibility of taking care of the family fell on his young shoulders. This also ended kalpesh's dreams of pursuing a higher education.

He took over his father's business, and after some market research, ventured into trading diamonds. Kalpesh clientele grew over time, as he cracked deals with several big jewellery companies from across the country. Today, Kalpesh's company has an annual turnover of Rs 10 crore. Kalpesh is able to accomplish this with a team of just 2 people.

3. Sudeeksha Bhati

Sudeeksha Bhati; source: ScoopWhoop

Sudeeksha Bhati, who belongs to a small village in UP’s Bulandshahr district, will head to Babson College, a private business school in Wellesley, Massachusetts, for a 4-year undergraduate course.

The daughter of a tea seller, Sudeeksha has landed a full scholarship to one of the top colleges in the United States. She will be the first person in her family to travel abroad for higher studies. But life wasn’t easy for her; the family used to struggle to make ends meet with her father’s meagre earnings. However, the student of humanities studied hard, focusing on the end result. Sudeeksha's hard work paid off and she ended up scoring 98% in her CBSE examinations.

She has been awarded a full scholarship of $70,428 per semester that is almost Rs 4 crore for a 4-year undergraduate programme at Babson College. The B-school focuses on entrepreneurship education, and is often ranked as the most prestigious entrepreneurship college in the United States.

4. Babu Rao

Babu Rao

Café Niloufer is a traditional cafe in Hyderabad and known for its Irani chai. It started gaining popularity in '76 when Babu Rao, who once worked as a cleaner at the place, took over its management.

Babu Rao was born in a small village in Telangana's Adilabad district, he belonged to a poor family. During his schooling years in Maharashtra, Babu Rao helped out at his uncle’s shop. His life was one of much struggle, and he had to even sleep on the Secunderabad railway station platform.
Babu took up a few small jobs, and then decided to work at the cafe so that he could at least get a meal or two. Starting as a cleaner at the cafe, Babu was initially promoted to work as a waiter, and then to prepare the biscuits and tea. Moving up the ladder really fast, he signed an agreement with the cafe to run it by the year 1978.

Initially, Babu could only take the profits home but had to pay a fixed amount every month to the owners. However, Babu earned enough by the year 1993 to acquire the cafe, and has been running it since then. Known for its delicious tea, today the cafe is always filled with people who have been coming there for decades.

5. Mohammed Aamir Ali

Mohammed Aamir Ali

Mohammed Aamir Ali is a son of an electrician, has a diploma student from Jamia Millia Islamia (JMI) Delhi, has walked away with an annual package of $100,000 (approximately Rs 70 lakh) from American company Frisson Motor Werks.

The firm has assigned him the post of battery management system engineer at Charlotte in North Carolina. Jamia Millia Islamia (JMI) said this is the highest salary package for any engineering diploma student at the college since its inception.

Mohammed Aamir could not get admission for an engineering course despite performing well in the JMI school board examination. After failing in his first attempt to get into the engineering course, Mohammed opted for a diploma in Mechanical Engineering at JMI in 2015.

Despite his failures, Mohammed's passion for science and technology led him to work on electric vehicles. In one of the college fairs, he made a prototype of his research. Impressed by his idea, Professor Waqar Alam uploaded it in the university’s official website, which is when Frisson Motor Werks reached out to the college administration.

A lot of people come from small towns to big cities in search of better opportunities and with a hope to make it big in their lives. And more often than not, the only thing that they have by their when they start out in these big cities is talent and resilience.

The bottom-line is that we shouldn't hold ourselves and our dreams back because of how the society, family, or the world, in general, might react.

Until and unless it doesn’t directly harm somebody, never give up on our dreams. Remember, the decision we make at this junction will brand us for life as optimists or pessimists. Are we the ones who believe ‘now is the right time’ or ‘no time is the right time’?

No matter how hard we may wish, no one else can make this choice for us. Go with our instincts, choose what we feel is right, and if our heart and efforts are in the right place, we will eventually reach our destination.

And what’s the worst that could happen? We could end up learning a lot, meeting new people and having a better understanding of life right?

It's inevitable to reach the highs without facing the lows, and it's up to us to decide how to get up and give it another shot.