What a way to start the day than to wake up to the news of bagging the Peace Prize home! I, not unlike many others knew this day would come for the deserved man, and I feel nothing sort of absolutely ecstatic!! I'd been at lose of words, thatnkfully these people aren't (^-^)

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Excerpt from a recent NYTimes article:-

Those who have watched Mr. Yunus over the years remarked on his gifts as a salesman — his personal warmth, his talent for telling a story, his sheer ability to charm an audience. Those qualities were very much on display last month when he participated in a panel at a Sheraton hotel in New York during Bill Clinton’s gathering of international do-gooders.

The theme was “Building a Sustainable Future,” and Mr. Yunus told about how Grameen gave loans to beggars. He made hundreds of rich people — many of them looking for causes to support — laugh out loud and also tugged at their heartstrings.

“All we are doing is telling beggars that, well, since you go house to house begging, would you like to take some merchandise with you, some cookies, some candy, something?” he asked a crowd that hooted with delight at this clever notion.

“A typical loan for a beggar is something like $12,” he said. “With $12, she has a basket of merchandise she carries around and goes house to house.”

“Today, we have more than 80,000 beggars in the program,” he said. “Many of them have already quit begging completely.”

At that, the audience erupted in a sustained burst of applause. Mr. Yunus beamed.