Dear Friends,
I am very pleased to share a youtube video where Dr. Kalpana Kharade, Vice Principal, Somaiya college, Mumbai is featured in a Marathi program on 29-09-2014. This program is in Marathi but her life story and talk is really inspiring for all. Please watch https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b2XBXIx-OHc Just summarizing her talk as below. Kalpana Madam is a late blind person. At the age of 13 she was diagnosed with RP and then she became totally blind. She did her schooling in Marathi medium and did her D.Ed. In the year 1979 she went to Russia for the eye treatment. In Russia she completed M.A. (Education) with excellent grade. In the year 1991 she achieved Ph.D in Education. There her medium of education was Russian so she learned Russian language with command. She returned to India as her treatment was not successful and became lecturer in K.J. Somaiya College of Education, Training and Research, Mumbai. She is famous as an excellent teacher in her college and taken up much research work. In 2006 she became the Vice Principal of the college. In 2013 she received state level “Best Employee” award by Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment, Maharashtra State. She is the one who has developed modules and research papers on teaching science and maths to blind students. Her hardwork, dedication and positivity helped her to overcome many many struggles in the job and day to day life. She is a great motivational speaker and a charming personality. Her father who was a clerk in the postal department dreamed to take his daughter to Russia for RP treatment and for that he left everything for her betterment. Although her treatment failed and in Russia the family faced very difficult situation Kalpana madam made sure not to let her father aspirations down. She completed her PH.D there and today she is a very successful academician and researcher. Her father was with her when she received best employee award in 2013. He was having great feelings for his daughter who achieved so much and made things happened what he dreamed and scarified for. Best Prashant Naik Register at the dedicated AccessIndia list for discussing accessibility of mobile phones / Tabs on: http://mail.accessindia.org.in/mailman/listinfo/mobile.accessindia_accessindia.org.in Search for old postings at: http://www.mail-archive.com/accessindia@accessindia.org.in/ To unsubscribe send a message to accessindia-requ...@accessindia.org.in with the subject unsubscribe. To change your subscription to digest mode or make any other changes, please visit the list home page at http://accessindia.org.in/mailman/listinfo/accessindia_accessindia.org.in Disclaimer: 1. Contents of the mails, factual, or otherwise, reflect the thinking of the person sending the mail and AI in no way relates itself to its veracity; 2. AI cannot be held liable for any commission/omission based on the mails sent through this mailing list..
