Adversity certainly brings out the best facets or character traits of a few indomitable and resolute folks and ends up making them that much more irrepressible and irresistible.....
Meet the Bharatpur (Rajasthan) based 12 year old Kriti a top ranking class VIII student of a state government run upper primary school in the district's Lalita Mudiya village who has mastered the seemingly Himalayan art of taking down notes delivered by her more than impressed teachers with her left foot.......
This valiant soul was all of 8 years old when she lost both her hands and a few fingers of her left foot when an unforeseen and calamitous mishap befell her when she had sauntered into the wilderness surrounding her village to defecate in the open as her modest and nondescript family abode was not endowed with a toilet on that fateful December 2012 late evening.......
She (Kriti) had just squatted down to relieve herself of her burden in one of her favourite haunts when she inadvertently came in contact with a precariously dangling high tension wire and was subsequently rushed to the district's government hospital where the doctors had to amputate both her hands (elbows downwards) and three fingers of her right foot in order to arrest or then stem the rapidly spreading infection that threatened to extinguish her budding life before it had even begun to bloom.......
Like I mentioned earlier; unforeseen calamities do indeed bring out the best in a few folks like Kriti and this gallant fledgling of a girl did not let the calamity that had befallen her extinguish her fond dreams of becoming a teacher after duly completing her education; she instead chose to kick fate back with twice the force that it had kicked her in the face and mastered the art of rendering near calligraphic hand or then should I say foot writing with her wholly intact left foot........
According to her gushing headmaster Vishanlal Sharma; Kriti enjoys near celebrity status in both her school and village owing to her resourcefulness and innate ability to make fate and destiny bow down before her iron will and steely resolve; this girl scored more than 75% marks in both her class VI and VII annual examinations and we are leaving no stone unturned in our efforts to ensure that she does one better in her class ten board examinations in two odd years time........
Yes this ever smiling and eternally cheerful blessed and chosen soul does require both her mothers as well as her class mates help in bathing; feeding and cleaning herself after she performs her ablutions; but her ability to stare life back in the face unflinchingly without taking a backward step is something that the best of us can learn from her and stop bemoaning our fate; destiny and the almighty whenever and wherever a calamity or mishap befalls us......
Meet the Bharatpur (Rajasthan) based 12 year old Kriti a top ranking class VIII student of a state government run upper primary school in the district's Lalita Mudiya village who has mastered the seemingly Himalayan art of taking down notes delivered by her more than impressed teachers with her left foot.......
This valiant soul was all of 8 years old when she lost both her hands and a few fingers of her left foot when an unforeseen and calamitous mishap befell her when she had sauntered into the wilderness surrounding her village to defecate in the open as her modest and nondescript family abode was not endowed with a toilet on that fateful December 2012 late evening.......
She (Kriti) had just squatted down to relieve herself of her burden in one of her favourite haunts when she inadvertently came in contact with a precariously dangling high tension wire and was subsequently rushed to the district's government hospital where the doctors had to amputate both her hands (elbows downwards) and three fingers of her right foot in order to arrest or then stem the rapidly spreading infection that threatened to extinguish her budding life before it had even begun to bloom.......
Like I mentioned earlier; unforeseen calamities do indeed bring out the best in a few folks like Kriti and this gallant fledgling of a girl did not let the calamity that had befallen her extinguish her fond dreams of becoming a teacher after duly completing her education; she instead chose to kick fate back with twice the force that it had kicked her in the face and mastered the art of rendering near calligraphic hand or then should I say foot writing with her wholly intact left foot........
According to her gushing headmaster Vishanlal Sharma; Kriti enjoys near celebrity status in both her school and village owing to her resourcefulness and innate ability to make fate and destiny bow down before her iron will and steely resolve; this girl scored more than 75% marks in both her class VI and VII annual examinations and we are leaving no stone unturned in our efforts to ensure that she does one better in her class ten board examinations in two odd years time........
Yes this ever smiling and eternally cheerful blessed and chosen soul does require both her mothers as well as her class mates help in bathing; feeding and cleaning herself after she performs her ablutions; but her ability to stare life back in the face unflinchingly without taking a backward step is something that the best of us can learn from her and stop bemoaning our fate; destiny and the almighty whenever and wherever a calamity or mishap befalls us......
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