How life treats us in return of good deeds

|Mr. #Shantanu Naidu (left) with industrialist Mr. Ratan Tata

In the year 2014, a young guy named Mr. Shantanu Naidu or Mr. Naidu joined TATA ELXSI company, Mumbai, as an automobile design engineer. One day he saw a dog which had died on the road due to a road accident. The entire place was filled with blood. He couldn't bare seeing that gruesome situation happen again. He started to take an initiative to protect the stray dogs from accidents. He along with his friends created dog collars known as glow-in-the-dark collars. This helps drivers to detect dogs from far away and thus the accidents can be prevented. With the help of his friends, he was able to attach these glow-in-the-dark collars to a lot of dogs. His initiative became very popular and soon his work was in his company's newsletters.

Some sources say that as this initiative became very popular, a lot of people were asking him for the glow-in-the-dark collars, which required a lot of money. As he didn’t have adequate money, he told his father he would be quitting the initiative. Upon hearing this, his father told him to write a letter to Mr. Ratan Tata and ask him if he could provide some help. He wrote a letter to Mr.Ratan Tata without any hopes or expectations.

But it doesn’t end here. A few days later, Mr.Ratan Tata invited him for a meeting.

Mr. Naidu said that Mr. Ratan Tata was deeply touched by his work and he also went to his place to see the dogs and saw how great Mr. Ratan Tata’s concern is for them.

That is how their friendship begun.

Mr. Ratan Tata agreed to fund him and that is how a social initiative called Motopaws began. In the midst of the initiative and soon after their friendship took off, Mr. Naidu had to leave India for university in the USA. But the connection between the two strengthened. Mr. Naidu ended up in the same university, known as Cornell University, where Mr. Ratan Tata had studied. He was sad that he had to leave Mr. Ratan Tata but as he got into the same university he took it as a happy coincidence and went ahead.

One day he casually informed Mr. Ratan Tata about his graduation day; cut to the actual day and there he was. Mr. Naidu was so shocked and couldn't believe what had happened. He wasn't expecting Me. Ratan Tata to travel all the way to the U.S. for his graduation day.

Upon returning to India, Mr. Ratan Tata called him again and said that he has a lot of work to be done at his office and asked him to be his assistant. Mr. Naidu couldn't believe what had happened; he took a long breath and answered “Yes”.

Mr. Naidu couldn't believe that his one good deed could change his life forever.

From that point, Mr. Shanthanu Naidu has been tagged as Mr. Ratan Tata's best friend.

This not only tells how down to earth and what a kind-hearted person Mr. Ratan Tata is but also says how little things can change someone’s life drastically. The journey of a normal private employee to becoming a best friend/business assistant to such a huge industrialist is something worth knowing. This shows how life treats us in return for our good deeds. Keep doing good deeds and keep enjoying the taste of the fruits life yields.

And Mr. Ratan Tata never fails to give us goosebumps through his amazing acts. A real inspiration to everyone.