School of Billionaires

It is the story of an 18-year-old teenager, who loved cricket. An act, which stunned not just his teammates but also the opposition team. It was year 2006 and Karnataka scored 446 in their first innings at Feroz Shah Kotla ground. It was a cold and difficult day for the Delhi Ranji team. They lost 5 wickets chasing Karnataka’s massive first innings total. With half of the side back in the pavilion on the 2nd day itself, it was an uphill task for Delhi team to save the follow-on. The 18-year-old walked out and along with wicketkeeper Puneet Bisht helped reach Delhi 103 at the end of the day’s play, without losing another wicket. This youngster stood solid and unbeaten at 40, but Delhi still needed to go a long way with the last recognized pair in the middle. But in the night his world turned upside down. His father, just 54-years-old, passed away leaving him with an awful choice – whether to cremate his father or to go and finish his innings for Delhi. The news of his fa...

Mustafa grew up in a remote village in Wayanad district of Kerala which had neither electricity nor roads. His family lived on the meagre earnings of his father who stopped studying after Class 4 and worked as a coolie on a coffee plantation. He is the eldest and have three younger sisters. His mother Fathima never went to school. He was poor in studies and failed in Class VI, this failure make him totally uninterested in going to school.   But he knows the reality, if he doesn’t study he has to work with his father in farm as colie, which  struck him. He decided to went back to school. From then with his hard work soon he became the good student and stood first in the school in Class 10. But as he is from a weak financial background, to support his further study his father don’t have money. He got admission at the Farooq College in Kozhikode where one of his father's friend, arranged for a free meal scheme in the college charity hostel as he could not afford t...