Tuesday, May 20, 2014

Reproduced from the original: Airborne to Chairborne

An inspiring tale of an ex-Air Force officer whose career was truncated due to a spinal injury. Completely paralyzed below the neck, he later took to writing with a pen in his mouth and set out to defeat the quirk of fate that had rendered him helpless. Salute to the indomitable spirit and courage of Sqn Ldr M P Anil Kumar and his inspiring words:

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Believe it or not every dark cloud has a silver lining. To surmount seemingly insuperable obstacles one has to shun the thought of disability and master the remnant faculties and then canalize one's slumbering energies purposefully, and whole-heartedly. It is not just physical ability and average intelligence but an insatiable appetite for success and an unflagging will power that would texture the warp and woof of the fabric called human destiny. Greater the difficulty sweeter the victory.