The Good Story Project

03/04/2024

A Story Dedicated to Mum, With Love

William’s mother Bharati D’Souza was 76 when she left the world on November 1, 2022. Before she was diagnosed with Koch’s disease in 2010 which affected her spine and rendered her bedridden, Bharati was very active.

For William, a Mumbai-based journalist and communications professional, and his family, the next 12 years were all about learning and unlearning, but mostly about caregiving. After Bharati passed away, William and his wife Zarine decided to share their caregiving journey to help all those who might be taking care of elderly, dependent parents.

If you happen to be a caregiver, do read. There are very important lessons.

Story link: http://bit.ly/3VIHFLA

16/02/2024

An Unusual Love Story

It is always astonishing how love can strike. It happened in the case of Vinay Jaiswal and Pooja Choudhary. The two got married in 2012, but mutually and amicably separated in 2018 as they felt they couldn’t connect. Their hearts, however, remained connected even after the separation. So, when Vinay suffered a heart attack in August last year, his ex-wife came running to take care of him. Then something unusual happened.

Story link: https://bit.ly/3SZ2Sip

06/01/2024

A Bagful of kindness

The beginning of a new year is the perfect time to reflect upon the year gone by. When journalist Saurabh Sharma looks back at his last year’s professional journey, one assignment stands out. It wasn’t just a story. It was an experience that touched him personally.

When he went to cover the Uttarakhand tunnel tragedy, little did he know that he would come back with a bagful of unexpected episodes of kindness. He shares with The Good Story Project the story behind a story.

Story link: https://bit.ly/48J3WvW

25/11/2023

Meet single mom Sh*tal Shah and her two adopted daughters ...

"So many people tell me that it is courageous of me to adopt two girls. But I don’t see it as an act of courage. It is all about love and acceptance.”

Sh*tal Shah, actress, director, and entrepreneur, is relishing her life right now. This 37-year-old single mother can’t stop talking about her younger daughter Sara (nine months old now), whom she adopted in 2023. Earlier, Sh*tal had adopted her older daughter Serena in 2018. Sh*tal is having her time under the sun and enjoying this beautiful phase of her life with her two daughters. She feels the concept of parenthood in our society is changing and people are warming up to the idea of having a family based on love and organic connection rather than just birth and DNA.

Story link: https://shorter.me/Zp6OZ

12/07/2023

Dignified Farewell

Bhubaneshwar-based Pradeep and Madhumita Prusty are an extraordinary couple. On most days, their day begins and ends at the local cremation ground. To perform the last rites of unclaimed bodies is the mission of their lives.

Be it the recent triple train tragedy at Balasore in Odisha, the Covid-19 pandemic or even during perfectly normal times, the Prustys have been doing their bit for society. Selflessly. This is their story.

Story link: https://l1nq.com/jq2F8

25/01/2023

DroneAcharya is on a high!

Pune-based DroneAcharya ended 2022 with a bang by becoming the first listed drone start-up in India. Riding high on the success of the bumper listing, the start-up is all set to make waves in the drone service and manufacturing space this year and in the years to come.

In conversation with The Good Story Project’s Swati Subhedar, DroneAcharya founder and managing director Prateek Srivastava shares the journey of his start-up which, in a very short span of time, has managed to have a presence not just in India, but also in South East Asia, UAE, Eastern Europe, and North America.

He also shed some light on how DroneAcharya was able to create employment opportunities for many youngsters in the drone space and also discussed the future of this emerging technology.

Interview link: https://bit.ly/3ZYLNqm

09/01/2023

Spreading the goodness of yoga and naturopathy

At times, life experiences end up changing the course of our journey and we unintentionally stumble upon something that is our true calling.

Ritu Sharma’s professional life was perfectly on track, but when she witnessed her father and father-in-law battle cancer around the same time, that made her pause and think about the futility of constantly running around to achieve something at the cost of health. It was then that she found herself drawn to naturopathy, yoga, and self-healing and decided to take it up professionally.

Today, she is a certified expert who conducts training and workshops, organises awareness camps and drives and is also an educator. Through this story, Sharma hopes to inspire everyone to practice yoga and adopt the principles of naturopathy. There is also an important message for women who are struggling to find their true calling.

Story link: https://bit.ly/3X5XqJQ

31/12/2022

14/11/2022

"Only through right education can a better order of society be built up" -- Pandit Jawahar Lal Nehru

The pandemic has stopped making news and it does not occupy our mind space anymore. However, it had a long-term impact on the education of children, especially children from underprivileged backgrounds.

On Children's Day, we pull out two stories from our story bank that highlighted the impact of the pandemic on education.

Story 1: "What was the fault of these children?" https://bit.ly/3E5to0T

Story 2: Educating kids for Re 1/day … that’s indeed a good ‘Shuruaat’ https://bit.ly/3USivWT