Because life is a gift
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TextPublication details: New Delhi Srishti Publishers & Distributors 2014 Description: xv, 196 pISBN: 9789382665250Subject(s): People with disabilities | Successful peopleDDC classification: 362.40954 Summary: He is ten years old and confined to a wheelchair. But that's not his identity. To the world, he is India's youngest patent holder for inventing variants of chess for six, twelve and sixty players.Have you heard of the Army Major who was declared dead in the Kargil war, but is India's first blade runner today?Do you think a woman without hands can be one of India's leading painters?What is the first thought that comes to your mind when you see a differently-abled person? Pity? Sympathy?The real-life success stories of fifteen differently-abled people charted in Because Life is a Gift will make you think otherwise. You will sense pride replaces all feelings of pity and sympathy for they have fought against all odds to achieve their dreams.is book is a tribute to their courage, passion, and zest for life. They will challenge your notion of the impossible. They will inspire you to live life to the fullest because life is truly a gift.
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| 361.95482 BAN Notes from Gandhigram: challenges to Gandhian praxis | 362.175 GAW Being mortal: | 362.2092 BED I dare | 362.40954 DIS Because life is a gift | 363.320954 ROY Our freedoms: | 363.325 JOS A thousand cuts: | 363.32511 BAJ Roots of terrorism |
He is ten years old and confined to a wheelchair. But that's not his identity. To the world, he is India's youngest patent holder for inventing variants of chess for six, twelve and sixty players.Have you heard of the Army Major who was declared dead in the Kargil war, but is India's first blade runner today?Do you think a woman without hands can be one of India's leading painters?What is the first thought that comes to your mind when you see a differently-abled person? Pity? Sympathy?The real-life success stories of fifteen differently-abled people charted in Because Life is a Gift will make you think otherwise. You will sense pride replaces all feelings of pity and sympathy for they have fought against all odds to achieve their dreams.is book is a tribute to their courage, passion, and zest for life. They will challenge your notion of the impossible. They will inspire you to live life to the fullest because life is truly a gift.
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