Community Service is the one activity I would continue to pursue, irrespective of age, life challenges and or economics. Pay-it-forward became my motto, when I conceived of what now is a running NGO, Karuna Charitable Trust (Karuna). To Karuna’s original mission, that of providing monetary help and professional training to uneducated widows from the underserved sections of society; make them self-reliant, today, I have added educating their children to its agenda. Having seen the power of true philanthropy, first-hand, I will continue to help, be it with service, guidance or money, the less advantaged, irrespective of geographical boundaries. (98 words) Every Friday, after classes, my school’s Music Room and my garage on Sunday afternoons, become platforms on which we, the Soaring Eagles, lose ourselves to the heart pumping sounds of percussion music, the sweet yet heavy sounds of the electric guitar, the reverberation of the mellow notes that flow from the piano; the mellifluous and catchy sounds of the songs that I sing. We are a five-member band, of which I am the lead singer. During the time we make music from our hearts, everything else becomes secondary; our universe is defined only by one sound – that of music. Singing to the accompaniment of the music of drums, the guitar and the keyboard, transports me into a world where stress is an alien concept; fatigue – a word not coined. The more songs I sing; the harder we practice, the greater becomes my bond with our