Thursday, November 13, 2025 | 05:36 PM ISTहिंदी में पढें
Business Standard
Notification Icon
userprofile IconSearch

The mathematics of being a good human

Ayush Kishore has learnt to give away what he has, very early in life. It was not just money but the chance to give someone a new beginning

Joy of giving: On January 26, Ayush went to the Bhopal jail along with 15 kg of mithai.
premium

Joy of giving: On January 26, Ayush went to the Bhopal jail along with 15 kg of mithai.

Aditi Phadnis
Like any 14-year old, Ayush Kishore loves playing cricket. He is also a Maths genius and is possessed of a lively sense of curiosity. So one day in 2016, when some convicts in Bhopal jail organised a successful jailbreak and a manhunt was launched to apprehend them, he was glued to the television and had a hundred questions for his mother, Vinita Malaviya, a Madhya Pradesh government police official. Who were they? Why did they organise the jailbreak? Why do people go to jail? Kishore watched the funeral of the policeman whom the convicts had killed and told his mother