11 Stories Of Grit & Passion That Prove You Don't Have To Be Rich To Do Something Extraordinary
It is said that self-belief, hard work and determination will always earn you success. Talent can¡¯t be discriminated on the basis of caste, creed, religion or financial status. Money can buy a lot of things, but it cannot buy sincerity and intent. You do not need to be loaded with cash or have a bank account with six-digit savings, in order to achieve something extraordinary.
Everybody likes a story where an underdog struggling through life gets all the riches they ever dreamt of, but not many people realise the amount of blood and sweat that goes behind changing circumstances.
So, here are some of the stories of grit and passion that prove, nothing is impossible if you put your heart and soul into it:
1. Chandrakanta - A farmer's son who helped India successfully launch Chandrayaan II. Read More
Times Of India
Among the members of the extraordinary team that made Chandrayaan II possible was a scientist named Chandrakanta who has a story of his own.
Mudhusudhan Kumar, a farmer in Hoogly¡¯s Shibpur Village wanted to name his son Suryakanta, but the teacher of the kid advised otherwise and he was named Chandrakanta.
Chandrakanta in English translates to ¡®moon child¡¯ and as his destiny would have it, he found himself to be a senior scientist of Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO). Today, he is one of those people who helped make Chandrayaan-2 mission a thundering success.
2. Fruit juice seller's daughter beats all odds to crack NEET exam. Read More
The New Indian Express
Charumathi, the daughter of a juice seller in Tamil Nadu cracked NEET exam, that's known to be one of the toughest in the country. Preparing for the exam living in a small house with seven other members wasn¡¯t easy at all, but her hard work and determination helped her achieve her dream. Her story is nothing short of inspiring.
Charumathi and her family lost their house located on the banks of Adyar River in the floods in 2015 and then the family moved to Perumbakkam in a house provided by the government. She managed and compensated with more hard work and secured a seat in Pudukkotai government medical college.
3. Tailor's daughter gets admission in Madras medical college. Read More
P Jeevitha, a daughter of a tailor in Anakaputhur, bagged an MBBS seat under the general category in the reputed Madras Medical College, on the second day of counselling itself. P Jeevitha reportedly said, ¡°I was waiting for this day for long and it is finally here. I am very happy.¡±
Jeevitha scored an impressive 605 in NEET examination. But even after she got through and was eligible for admission, the cost of her medical education was way too high for her family to be able to afford. That is when the BJP State president Tamilisai Soundararajan came forward and offered to fund her education.
4. JNU security guard cracks university's entrance exam, enrolls to study Russian language. Read More
Navbharat Times
The 34-year-old Ramjal Meena has been guarding the Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) campus for four years. Now he is going enroll in the university as a student. Meena, a security guard from Rajasthan has cracked the university's entrance examination and will now take admission in Bachelor of Arts (BA), Russian (Hons).
¡°What makes JNU different is that people here do not believe in social hierarchy. Everyone - teachers and students - encouraged me; now they congratulate me. I feel like I have become famous overnight,¡± Meena told Hindustan Times.
5. Daughter of an electrician from Bhopal won gold in National Shooting Championship. Read More
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It was double delight for daughter of an electrician, pistol shooter from Bhopal Chinki Yadav, who won the 25m pistol gold medal in the national selection trials and team silver in the national shooting championship. Two other female shooters from MP also won medals in the 19th Surendra Singh memorial shooting championship in Delhi.
Jabalpur¡¯s Gun for Glory rifle shooter Shreya Agarwal and pistol shooter Mahima Agarwal also won medals in the championship. Shreya won the team bronze in the 10m senior rifle category and an individual bronze in the 10m rifle junior category. Mahima teaming with Chinki won silver medal in the senior women 25m pistol category.
6. Kolhapur auto rickshaw driver's son passes out from NDA. Read More
An auto rickshaw driver¡¯s son from Kolhapur secured the fourth position in the overall merit list at the 136th course at National Defence Academy. Sarthak Dhawan, who also excelled in military training, passed out from NDA (National Defence Academy) on May 30.
¡°My son has made us proud today. It¡¯s a dream come true for us,¡± Shashikant, Sarthak¡¯s father told the Times Of India.
Shashikant has been driving an auto rickshaw in Kolhapur for the past three decades. He gave full credit to his son, who was strong and did not lose his focus when his mother died in a tragic accident four years ago.
7. An auto driver's daughter could be India's next pace queen. Read More
Bangalore Mirror
Nagma will always remember the date January 7, 2019. The then 15-year-old woke up to a delightful message informing her that she had been selected for the under-16 state girls¡¯ cricket team.
¡°It was like a dream come true. I had been working really hard for this day to come. I used to play zonal matches earlier and I wanted to represent the Under-16 state cricket team. I made it and I¡¯m so glad,¡± she said.
8. Paan seller's son scores 99.56 percentile in JEE Mains. Read More
Hindustan Times
Shiv Kumar Prasad Chaurasia is a paan seller whose son Shubham Chaurasia has done what very few people are capable of pulling off - he scored 99.56 percentile in JEE Mains 2019. The results of the JEE Main were declared on January 19. In an interview to Hindustan Times, Shiv Kumar thanked the coaching institute that helped his son.
Shiv Kumar said, ¡°My son would not have achieved success without the help of former DGP Abhayanand, who runs Magadh Super 30 coaching center, and its coordinator Pankaj Kumar, who mentored Shubham."
9. Mizoram vegetable-seller¡¯s daughter becomes the first board exam topper from her village. Read More
For 16-year-old Lalrinnungi, it was just another day when she was helping her parents sell vegetables at a roadside market in Mizoram¡¯s Aizawl. But the news of her board exams results has now changed her life - Lalrinnungi, scored a whopping 92% in the class 10 board exams.
Lalrinnungi worked very hard, juggling between selling vegetables and studying, and finally got admitted to another school called the St Joseph Higher Secondary School - a boarding school.
10. Farmer's daughter Ilma Afroz defies all odds to crack civil services exam. Read More
Ilma Afroz, daughter of a farmer in Uttar Pradesh has proved that there's always light at the end of the tunnel. Ilma bagged 217th rank in Civil Services Examination 2017 to join the Indian Police Service (IPS).
Coming from a farmer's family in a small Kundarki village in Moradabad district of Uttar Pradesh, Ilma's success has been chronicled with various stages of struggles. She lost her father when she was just 14-years-old and it was her mother who ensured her children realise their ambitions.
11. Son of electrician bags a whopping Rs 70 lakh package with American firm. Read More
The Hindu
The son of an electrician has set an example in the real world by grabbing a pay package of Rs 70 lakh in an American firm. Mohammad Aamir Ali, the son of an electrician at Jamia Millia Islamia is the only Jamia diploma holder to receive such a high package.
Ali who has six other brothers, scored wellin the JMI school board examinations but was unable to clear Jamia¡¯s B-tech course for three consecutive years. Due to financial constraints, he couldn¡¯t pursue an architecture course at NIT Jharkhand. Finally in 2015, he took admission for a diploma in mechanical engineering.
