[www.keralites.net] Sonal Mehta she did a PhD, becoming the first visually challenged ( retinitis pigmentosa ) woman at Gujarat University to do so

 

Sonal Mehta she did a PhD, becoming the first visually challenged woman at Gujarat University to do so.  'Everyone suffers from some handicap... You have to surge on'.
When she was 14, Sonal Mehta was diagnosed with retinitis pigmentosa. By 15 she had lost all her vision.
That very year, she appeared for the all-important Class 10 SSC examinations and scored 82 per cent.

Two years later, she came ninth in her Class 12 HSC examinations.

She has never looked back ever since.

This is the inspirational story you should be taking lessons from.

Sonal Mehta is visually challenged.


She has been that way for a little over 25 years now. For 20 of those years she has been a teacher in English at the Government Polytechnic For Girls in Ahmedabad.
She likes to see her condition as a 'state of being' and not a handicap.

"People like me, who have a physical handicap, cannot afford to be psychologically handicapped as well. You have to surge on."

'I may not be a medical doctor but I still have a 'doctor' before my name'

In Class 12, she stood ninth in the Boards and went on to graduate in English Language and Literature with a First Class score, complete her Masters and then her MPhil where she topped the class before completing her doctoral thesis on the female characters in the works of R K Narayan.

Along the way, she also topped the Gujarat State Public Commission examinations for the post of a lecturer in English at the Government Polytechnic College in Ahmedabad.

For 15 years she commuted between Gandhinagar, her maternal home and Ahmedabad, a distance of about 30 km by bus.
Please read her full story in the link below.

http://www.rediff.com/getahead/slide-show/slide-show-1-achievers-sonal-mehta-is-gujarat-univs-first-female-visually-challenged-phd/20131217.htm#1

 

Ravi

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