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Hello, dear readers! As you may know, here at Aspiring Blog, we’ve been on a mission to shine a light on the incredible stories of unsung heroes through our book series, Unfold the Stories of Unsung Heroes. These are the… Continue Reading →

The Kindness Report #27: “I Think I’ve Found My People”

Adam James had been putting off going to a music festival for years. Not because he didn’t want to. He loves music deeply – he’s an aspiring drum and bass DJ who performs under the name Adzo, and the thought… Continue Reading →

The Forgotten Hour #8: The Warning That Could Have Saved Challenger

There is a version of this story everyone already knows. A shuttle lifts off on a cold Florida morning. Seventy-three seconds later, in front of a nation watching on classroom television sets, it comes apart in the sky. That version… Continue Reading →

The Kindness Report #26: Bittu Tabahi Is Destroying Pollution in India’s Forgotten River

His surname means destruction in Hindi. ‘Tabahi’. That’s the name he goes by on social media, the name people know him by, the name that spread across the internet this year attached to videos of a young man standing knee-deep… Continue Reading →

The Kindness Report #25: The Kids Who Sold Ice Pops So Everyone Could Ride

Summer in Woonsocket, Rhode Island, and a group of kids at the Woonsocket Motor Inn had a problem. Two new friends had just moved into the motel. And unlike everyone else in the friend group, they didn’t have bikes. No… Continue Reading →

The Forgotten Hour #7: The Three Signatures That Saved the World

On October 27, 1962, the world came closest to nuclear war not in a situation room in Washington, not in the Kremlin, and not at any summit table. It came closest in the belly of a Soviet submarine, somewhere in… Continue Reading →

The Kindness Report #24: The Six-Year-Old Who Gave Away Her Bicycle Money After Colombia’s Earthquake

On the morning of August 10, 2026, a 7.4 magnitude earthquake struck western Colombia, the strongest to hit the country in a decade. At least 181 people were killed and more than 2,595 injured. More than 1,500 homes were damaged… Continue Reading →

Why Peace Feels Suspicious

Last week I had a genuinely fine day. Nothing broke, nobody was upset with me, no inbox disaster, no “we need to talk” text. And by 6pm I caught myself thinking, quite seriously, “okay, what am I forgetting.” Nothing. I… Continue Reading →

The Kindness Report #23: The Birthday Cake She Had Waited 40 Years For

It was a Tuesday in Bengaluru, and Yana was decorating a cake. She was pressing candles into the icing – the number 40, two candles shaped like digits- and her young daughter was watching from nearby, fidgeting with the particular… Continue Reading →

The Forgotten Hour #6: The Spice That Was Worth a War

Walk into almost any kitchen today and you’ll find it sitting in a jar, costing next to nothing, waiting to be grated over a dessert without a second thought. Four hundred years ago, the same object was worth risking a… Continue Reading →

The Kindness Report #22: They Crossed Australia on Nothing but Strangers’ Kindness

William Pertek and Manek Miquel were 21 years old, French, and standing by the side of a road in Queensland with a handwritten cardboard sign and a plan that most people in their lives had already written off. “You will… Continue Reading →

The Kindness Report #21: The Basketball Star Who Wanted to Be a Police Officer

From the moment Jordan Wilmore started growing, the advice was consistent. You’re 7 foot 3. You should play basketball. You could make millions. Why would you want to do anything else? He heard it his whole life. From coaches, from… Continue Reading →

The Forgotten Hour #5: The Day Humanity Learned to Say “No”

Somewhere around the 12th century BCE, a group of workers in a village near the Valley of the Kings put down their tools and walked away. There were no weapons. No riot. No march on the palace. They simply stopped… Continue Reading →

The Kindness Report #20: How the CJP Protest Became a Story of Humanity

Note: This Kindness Report is a little different from the usual ones. It’s not one story – it’s many. And it happened right here in India, this week, in a city some of us call home. For nearly two months,… Continue Reading →

The Kindness Report #19: The Four-Year-Old Who Turned Strangers Into Neighbours

Every morning, before most of his neighbors had finished their first cup of coffee, a four-year-old boy named Roman was already at the door. Waiting. Watching. Ready. The garbage truck would rumble past and Roman waved. An Amazon driver slowed… Continue Reading →

The Forgotten Hour #4: The Biggest Internet Disaster Nobody Remembered

On the evening of November 2, 1988, the entire internet was roughly 60,000 computers. Not 60,000 in one country. Not 60,000 in one industry. That was the whole thing – university labs, military research sites, a handful of government offices,… Continue Reading →

The Kindness Report #18: A Routine Food Delivery Turned Into an Extraordinary Act of Kindness

It was a routine food delivery. The kind that happens a thousand times a day in every city, in every apartment building, in every life that’s too busy to cook on a Tuesday evening. The delivery executive handed over the… Continue Reading →

The Kindness Report #17: What the Neighbours Couldn’t See Beyond Debbie’s Yard

Debbie’s lawn had been growing out of control for a while. That much was visible from the street. But what wasn’t visible (what you couldn’t know just by driving past) was everything else that had piled up alongside the grass…. Continue Reading →

The Kindness Report #16: What Happened at This Graduation Left Everyone in Tears

In May 2022, just after his eighth-grade year, a 14-year-old boy from Kansas City named Dylan Mwaniki was diagnosed with renal medullary carcinoma, a rare and aggressive form of Stage 4 kidney cancer. Doctors told his family he had maybe… Continue Reading →

The Forgotten Hour #3: The Seven Seeds That Changed the World

Somewhere in the 17th century, a man walked out of Mecca with coffee seeds hidden in his clothing.He probably didn’t think of himself as someone changing the world. He was a pilgrim going home. But what he carried (if the… Continue Reading →

A Man I Know

Once upon a time a man I know retired. The man was not sure if he would like being retired. For the first month or so, he did not like it. But soon he realized there was nobody telling him… Continue Reading →

The Kindness Report #15: The Japanese Tradition That Stunned the FIFA World Cup 2026

The final whistle blew on a 2-2 draw between Japan and the Netherlands at Dallas Stadium. Group F, opening week of the 2026 FIFA World Cup. This is the kind of result that leaves you a little deflated either way,… Continue Reading →

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