Story of a Grand-daughter

Long long ago, one sweet seventy years young grandpa:).
And
One very sweet and cute grand-daughter of just seven years young.

One very good evening, the grandpa and his smart grand daughter went to a majestic banyan tree located outside their village.
While her grandpa was in chit-chatting with the village men, this little kid was in the library nearby and studying books.

Forgetting the outside world, the little angel went on reading till late evening. After sometime, grandpa came and called her. They started going back to their home. Since he was having poor vision, she was helping and guiding him to move on. Suddenly, the grandpa stopped and asked her to complete one rhyme:

"If I have wings.."

In general, the rhyme ends with the following:

"fly up and above the sky
Go and see all the beautiful places
Meet great people
.."

The little goddess knew the rhyme very well, but,
she said with lot of enthusiasm,
"IF I HAVE WINGS, I GO OUR NEIGHBOR VILLAGE LIBRARY AS WELL AND STUDY ALL THE BOOKS"

In the dark night, her grandpa's eyes glowed like fireflies:)

That day night, he said with the little kid sleeping on the bed,
" One hundred years back, in America, there was a person by name Andrew Carnegie. He was a billionaire. After he died, his money was spent for building so many libraries in several villages. I did not go and see but people say that every library that is found there was built by his money."

He continued..!

My little honey, I know you love books so much. Give me a promise that If you have more money than you need, get books for at least one library.

That little genius gave promise to her grandpa without any delay.

That kid shined in her academics very well. Till the year 1974, she was the only girl who did post-graduation from IISc (TATA Village) in our country.

She reached greater heights in her career. Later, she became INFOSYS chair-person.

Her name is Sudha Narayana Murthy.

Through Infosys foundation, she purchased thousands of books and donated to libraries. Thus fulfilled her grandpa's dream. She is not just a soft-ware engineer. She is a great writer too.

Hats off MADAM!!

- translation from a children's Telugu book by S.Nagaraja

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sudha_Murthy