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April 9, 2006
Passion drives grit girl
Shruti Sinha is just another student of Cambridge Institute of Technology (CIT), but what sets her apart from her classmates is that despite being speech and hearing impaired, she passed her first semester from the institute with distinction.
Shruti was born with the disabilities but has never let them overshadow her zeal to fight the challenges in life.
Her father, Ajay Kumar Sinha, a CCL employee, and mother Gita Rani Prasad, a government school teacher, were stunned when they realised that their first daughter’s two senses were damaged over 90 per cent.
The couple took Shruti to the best doctors and hospitals in the country only to be told that their daughter would never learn to speak or hear like normal children.
Shruti was then enrolled on a special school, where the girl learnt lip-reading and also developed her communication skills.
As she grew, so did her passion for reading, and soon she was admitted to the Central Academy School in Bariatu. The institute was located close to her residence and so it was convenient for her to commute.
“Shruti always spends her day with books. Her favourite subject is mathematics and it only takes a few minutes for her to grasp concepts,” said Gita Rani, a mathematics teacher, who started teaching Shruti the basics of various subjects.
But soon, the girl was studying without assistance from others.
After securing respectable marks in matriculation and intermediate examinations, she opted for engineering and qualified the competitive exams.
Shruti proved to be an intelligent and hardworking student.
“Shruti takes half the time her peers take to solve maths problems. She finishes her paper, revises it twice, and then gets restless as other students are still trying hard to complete the paper,” said her mother.
“She is always the first one to come out of the examination room, and also scores very well in the paper.”
The girl, staying at the CIT hostel, is fond of painting and cooking, and is a “big fan” of Yuvraj Singh.
But she does not want to become a chef or a painter, her eyes are set on an MBA.
“I want to become a successful person and get a good job. I hope that with my qualifications I will get a good job in some company,” she said in sign language.
To top it off, the eldest of three siblings also teach her brother and sister, aspiring engineers in other colleges.
By The Telegraph
http://www.telegraphindia.com/1060408/asp/jamshedpur/story_6073330.asp
Posted by 4HL on April 9, 2006 1:19 AM
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