India's Unsung Heroes

C Suresh, a lottery-cum-pan shop owner from Kerala, for probity and honesty:

Suresh was also felicitated at the function.

Suresh is a poor lottery-cum pan-shop owner. Ayyappan, a customer had asked Suresh to keep for him a lottery ticket. Ayyappan used to buy lottery tickets from Suresh’s pan shop, and had bought a ticket of the Karunya Lottery of the Kerala Government. The customer had not even taken the ticket from Suresh but asked him to keep it till he took it after paying him. That particular lottery ticket won Rs 1-crore prize. Suresh could have kept the ticket and prize money, but the honest man promptly informed Ayyappan about it. Suresh said “How can I take it? I had already sold that ticket and so the prize is not mine,” as reported by yahoo.com.

Suresh proves that honesty is certainly the best policy. He chose to be a model in honesty in today’s world.