Reading his books make you feel that they are a part of your life. Your entity, your personality and your aura everything will be connected and reflected in his story. You will find yourself in his protagonists. I was really lucky or say fortunate to interview him as he is one of my favourite authors.

The door of his Khar Road office in Mumbai opened, and there, on the revolving chair was he, the ‘yeh dil na hota bechara, kadam nahote awara…’ man. Still clad in a red scarf and blue shirt, colourful as ever, Dev Anand.

Life is a roller coaster ride. There are ups and downs faced by a person all the time. But a man is the one who can get up each time he falls. Whatever life gives you take it with grace. That’s what Santra Devi strongly believes. She started working when her husband died. She had to make a survival not only for herself but her four children as well.

Krish Ashok is a popular blogger from Chennai who works as the head of Web 2.0 Innovation lab at TCS. He is a passionate open source enthusiast, an amateur Rubyist, a classical violinist and a guitarist, an amateur cellist,used to be a Radio Jockey with Chennai Live 104.8 and is now a columnist for Indian Express, where he writes a weekly column called “Globalized Gapsaa” that looks at the impact of technology on globalization and culture in a humorous vein. He also writes for Cricinfo.

Abhijit Alka Anil, a social worker is working for innumerable social causes since the last 5 years. At 27 he is into grass root level work and has brought about a change. Salute to youth like him who re-define the word noble!

Prashant Kumar, an LLB student at Bharati Vidyapeeth University, Pune, Maharashtra has already started spreading his wings. He has his own social organization – SAVERA. Seeks inspiration in mother Teresa. He aspires to change the society by making a change at an early age of 25. He is also the Director at The Earth Organization, India.

We all need to be rescued from boredom, frustration and the sheer banality of our day to day life. Some wait for a tight spandex clad superhero while others sharp minded just type in www.gkhamba.com

Our interaction took place with the youth Icon Prof. (Dr.) Umesh Saxena, the Director of St. Chitransh Public Senior Secondary School, Jaipur (Raj.) He was being interviewed by Ms Yashoda Verma, research Scholar from the University of Raj., Jaipur. The significant aspect of this youth icon appeared that Dr. Umesh Saxena did it all at the tender age of 32. How all these dreams came true is a fine demonstration and this interview gives you details.

Taking the first step has always been the most difficult task. More so, when you stand up against an evil which people feel doesn’t exist and you get criticized at every step moved forward. But to take all the criticism positively in your stride and pursue your vision is something that commands respect from one and all. One such person who stood out against the menace of ragging is Mohit Garg. Just to lay testimony to his strength is the fact that he decided to speak up and act against ragging way back in 2001 when it wasn’t even in the picture. And even after getting ridiculed he did not wander from his course of action. Graduated from IIT Bombay and currently pursuing MBA from IIM Ahmedabad, Mohit is amongst those very few who made alleviation of ragging to large extent possible, by living out his values. Being the co-founder of CURE-Coalition to uproot ragging from education, he has been actively involved with the organization for the past 10 years and is no less than a youth icon. In a personal interaction with Mohit, he disclosed many of the unknown facts about CURE. Here are the excerpts from what he told us.

VP: What does social entrepreneurship mean to you?
Gaurav Makkar: In recent times there is a lot of debate going around what does ‘Social Entrepreneurship’ actually means. To me social entrepreneurship means solving a social problem through entrepreneurial means in an innovative and self sustainable way.