by Bai Maleiha

Created on: July 24, 2008   Last Updated: February 03, 2009

Greatness is a delicate word that must be articulated with care and with the right perspective. It is an institution that best describes the heroes of the past and present generation. A character that seems unreachable and only few have been privileged to claim such title. For an act of greatness is always subjective, but the best way to know if you are born for greatness is to know who and what you are existing for.

As we breathe life on earth, our tiny steps shall progress to something that must be emulated by the youths for the young have always looked up to people who could inspire them to be the best that they could be. To guide your search for greatness, let me ask some questions that would describe my own definition of what greatness means to me.

DO YOU INSPIRE POSITIVE CHANGE?

Are you constantly the kind of person who always put other people's interest and welfare over yours? Great people are selfless. They enjoy to thrive in a socio-economic environment where they could share their talents and skills and even give their unselfish time to help others during their ordeals.

There are many examples before us that truly exemplify the picture of people who are truly borned great.

One such vivid example shows women who have one way or the other touched the very fiber of their respective communities to uplift the lives of those in need and to set a positive direction for others to follow.

Indian Greatness

The condition of women in India moved a powerful-minded lady to bridge the gap and lessen the pains of her fellow women. Ms.Jaya Arunachalam, the president of the WWF (Working Women's Forum), had orchestrated the mass unity of the eighty nine percent (89%) working Indian women rally behind what she called as "mobilization for collective consciousness".

Indian women have a long history of pain and struggle. In 1990, the large mass of unorganized sector are women workers who do not have an informal or formal unions.

Met with harsh conditions, like low wages, caste and class discrimination, pulled them away from achieving their economic goals. Their status as women of the society was undervalued then

The process used by Arunachalam capitalizes on women as an entry point for the development process.

A commendable move on the part of the WWF for making the Indian women become the catalyst of development and paved the way for their active participation in the shaping of their social status to alleviate the harshness of their social and economic conditions.

India's WWF is a

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