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3. Saint Ashtavakra
Nothing can handicap Spirit of Achievement
Let Noble Thoughts Come to us from all
Directions- Rig Veda
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4. Saint Ashtavakra
Let Noble Thoughts Come to us from all
Directions- Rig Veda
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5. Saint Ashtavakra
“Bondage is when the mind longs for
something, grieves about
something, rejects something, holds on to
something, is pleased about something or
displeased about something.”
― Ashtavakra
The Self
O Master, Tell me how to find
Detachment, wisdom, and freedom!
Child, If you wish to be free, Shun the poison of the
senses.
Seek the nectar of truth, Of love and
forgiveness, Simplicity and happiness.
Earth, fire and water, The wid and the sky-- You are
none of these.
If you wish to be free, Know you are the Self, The
witness of all these, The heart of awareness.
Set your body aside Sit in your own awareness.
You will at once be happy, Forever still, Forever
free.
Let Noble Thoughts Come to us from all
Directions- Rig Veda
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6. Ashtavakra in King Janaka’s Court

7. Ashtavakra, Aroon,
Nothing can Handicap the Spirit of
Achievement

8. Arun / Aruna / Anoora
Charioteer of Surya Bhagwan
 Born to Vinata &
Kashyap
 Born Pre-matured
 Undeveloped Lower
Body
 Protects Earth from
Sun’s Heat / anger
 Brother of Garud
 Father of Jatayu &
Sampati

9. Sabari Srinivas - Chennai
http://www.thehindu.com/todays-paper/tp-features/tp-downtown/nothing-can-handicap-spiritof-achievement/article4398669.ece
12 Yrs age: Knows
C++, BASIC, HTML
 Razor sharp memory
 Distinction in National and
Intl competitions including
Australian University of
South Wales Educational
Assessment
 No functioning of waist and legs due to
a Mole on his Spinal Cord at birth

10. VED DARSHANACHARYA
Swami Gangeswaranand
Blind Sindhi Saint
helped in Printing Vedas
Travelled Around The World
27th December, 1881,

11. Hridayeshwar Singh Bhati
Youngest Patent Holder
9 Year old boy Jaipur
6 Player Chess Board
Suffers from Duchenne muscular
dystrophy and is confined to a
wheelchair
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12. Arunima Sinha
Ambedkar Nagar, UP
Former National Volleyball Player,
Pushed from Train by chain snatchers – Multiple Fractures
Age 25: 1st Amputee to climb Everest at 10.55 am on Tue 21
May 2013
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13. Arunima Sinha 26 year old
1st Female Amputee to Climb Sagarmatha
Almost two years to the day since a moving train severed Arunima Sinha’s left leg just
below the knee, the 26-year-old Indian arrived at Everest base camp ready to climb the
world’s highest mountain.
On Tuesday 21 May 2013 morning just before 11 o’clock she became the first female
amputee to reach the summit.
Ms. Sinha, who has a prosthetic leg, took nearly 17 hours to scale the mountain after
spending about two months acclimatizing and going on treks in northern India and
Nepal.
“She was definitely slow because of her physical condition. But her mental strength and
stamina was extraordinary,” said Dawa Sherpa, the general manager at Asian
Trekking, a Nepal-based company that organized her expedition.
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14. Youngest on Sagar Matha
16 Year Sherpa Temba Tsheri
http://lubbockonline.com/stories/053101/wor_053101087.shtml
Lost 5 fingers due to Frost bite
in an earlier attempt
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15. Against All Odds
visually impaired girl, Shrishti
Tiwari, from Damoh town has topped the
Madhya Pradesh Higher Secondary
examination in Arts stream.For Shrishti, a
student of JBP Government Higher
Secondary School in Damoh, the achievement
is special not only academically but also because of
the fact that she is visually impaired since birth.
She scored 481 out of 500 marks to emerge as the
topper in Arts stream.
Shrishti's grandparents and uncle helped her a lot in mastering the subjects, her
family said. While her parents stay in Bhopal because of job
compulsions, Shrishti's maternal uncle Sanjay Gangele prepared notes for her.
Her maternal grandparents Virendra and Pushpa Gangele
read out the notes to her, they said.
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16. Physically Challenged – yet helping
Dr Sharad Kumar Dixit– USA Free Plastic
Surgery – Aurangabad, Bhopal, Bhilai
Cannot Talk - Cancer of Lyrics, Cannot Walk- Half Body Paralysed
after an accident, Cannot Breath – Heart Patient – 12% heart
working – Oxygen from a machine.
2001 Padmashree 10 Hrs w/o a Break. Oct – April 7 months
in India & 5 months in US;
1958 – to USA; 1968 onwards Bharat to serve.
Vinod Kumar Bansal – Kota IIT Classes
At 24, the prognosis for this mechanical engineer was bleak:
muscular dystrophy and imminent death. Confined to a
wheelchair, he overcame the odds to help thousands of students get
into the prestigious IITs. The success of Bansal Classes has
spawned an entire industry in Kota, Rajasthan.
Let Noble Thoughts Come to us from
all Directions- Rig Veda
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17. WHAT YOUTH MUST DO ?
Adopt a Child
Don’t Kill a
Baby Girl
in the womb
Donate Eyes
Donate Blood
It is a Terrible thing to
see and have no vision
Let Noble Thoughts Come to us from all
Directions- Rig Veda
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18. Cerebral Palsy
Dr. A.K. Purohit
(NIMS)
Author of Cerebral Palsy Book
Cerebral palsy (CP) is neither
genetic nor a disease,
it is congenital, coming at or about
the time of birth,
a central motor dysfunction - a
permanent, non-progressive
defect of the immature brain.
Let Noble Thoughts Come to us from all
Directions- Rig Veda
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19. Cerebral Palsy
Spandan (2012),
a film by
Vegitha
Reddy
and
Aman
Tripathi, delves into the dilemma
of parents whose child suffers
from cerebral palsy.
While films made with children
with special needs as central
characters have been attempted
before, the predicament of
parents dealing with the stigma
associated with condition and
beyond is dealt in Spandan.
In one of the songs of Spandan "Chal chaal chaal tu bala" more than 50 CP
kids have acted. The famous classical singer Devaki Pandit has given her
voice to the song penned by Prof. Jayant Dhupkar and composed by
National Film Awards winner Isaac Thomas Kottukapally.
Let Noble Thoughts Come to us from all
Directions- Rig Veda
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20. Cerebral Palsy – Aditya Arun Shourie
Arun Shourie's son Aditya
book
“Does He Know a Mother's Heart”
Arun Shourie (1941) - Indian journalist, author and
politician.
Economist with the World Bank (1968–72 & 75–77),
Consultant to the Planning Commission, India,
Editor of the Indian Express and Times of India,
Minister in the government of India (1998–2004)
Ramon Magsaysay Award in 1982.
Let Noble Thoughts Come to us from all
Directions- Rig Veda
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21. Autism
Let Noble Thoughts Come to us from all
Directions- Rig Veda
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22. a
Surdas
TT Chandrasekhar
Rani Verma
Surdas / Irattai Pulavar /
Para Olympics winners
API Olympics
Let Noble Thoughts Come to us from all
Directions- Rig Veda
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The Self
O Master, Tell me how to
find Detachment, wisdom, and freedom!
Child, If you wish to be free, Shun the
poison of the senses.
Seek the nectar of truth, Of love and
forgiveness, Simplicity and happiness.
Earth, fire and water, The wid and the sky-You are none of these.
If you wish to be free, Know you are the
Self, The witness of all these, The heart of
awareness.
Set your body aside Sit in your own
awareness.
You will at once be happy, Forever
still, Forever free.
Let Noble Thoughts Come to us from all
Directions- Rig Veda
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27. TT National Champion V Chandra sekhar
A Glorious Career That Came To A Grinding Halt
People who follow table tennis would definitely remember the trauma caused to former national
champion V Chandrasekhar as a result of the wrong treatment given by Apollo Hospital.
In September 1984, V. Chandrasekhar, three times national table tennis champion
and Arjuna Award winner, went to Chennai's Apollo Hospital for treatment of a seemingly
innocuous injury. He needed a minisectomy to remove a loose cartilage in his knee, but in a
classic exhibition of callousness during the operation, the oxygen supply was turned off
for a few minutes, leading to the death of some brain cells.(A healthy person will not be affected
if oxygen supply to the brain is cut off for up to four minutes; seven minutes will kill.)
Chandrasekhar lost his speech, vision and body co-ordination. He slipped into a
coma for nearly two months, and was completely blind for over eight. Today, because
of narrow field vision, he cannot drive; finds taking the stairs and turning his
body difficult. His thought process is lucid, but there's a gap between
thought and speech.
Chandrasekhar demanded compensation from Apollo, but they refused. He sued the
hospital, the surgeon and the anaesthetist in the Chennai High Court in September 1985 -- and
initiated a legal battle that lasted over 10 years. The case was finally settled by the Supreme
Court, which awarded Chandrasekhar Rs 19 lakh as compensation in February 1995.
The man has fought against all odds to escape death and has now presented his experiences
in the form of a book. The book is aptly titled, My Fight Back From Death’s Door. Let’s hope
that Chandra can realize his dream of building a top-notch TT Academy in Chennai.
Let Noble Thoughts Come to us from all
Directions- Rig Veda
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28. Medals at Para Olympics
Murlikant Petkar was really a multi-faceted sportsperson.
Private-jawan in the Corps of Electronics and Mechanical
Engineers (EME) in the Indian Army.
Disabled during the 1965 War against Pakistan, sustaining
severe bullet wounds.
originally a boxer at EME, Secunderabad.
switched to swimming, athletics, table tennis and slalom
50m freestyle 3 event at Heidelberg when he clocked 37.331
seconds to win gold medal with a world record to boot
won 4 medals in international events in swimming
Other Indian Olympians who won madels are
Bhimrao Kesarkar; Joginder Singh Bedi; Devendra Jhajharia;
Rajinder Singh Rahelu; Girisha Nagarajegowda.
Let Noble Thoughts Come to us from all
Directions- Rig Veda
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29. Medals at Para Olympics
Other Indian Olympians who won madels are
Bhimrao Kesarkar;
Joginder Singh Bedi;
Devendra Jhajharia;
Rajinder Singh Rahelu;
Girisha Nagarajegowda.
Let Noble Thoughts Come to us from all
Directions- Rig Veda
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30. Medals at Para Olympics
Girisha Nagarajegowda.
London Olypics – silver medal
High Jump
Joginder Singh Bedi, Devendra Jhajharia
(Gold in Javelin 2004), Rajinder Singh
Rahelu (Bronze in powerlifting
2004), Girisha Nagarajegowda (Silver in
High Jump 2012)
Let Noble Thoughts Come to us from all
Directions- Rig Veda
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31. Indian Olympics Medal Winners
Top Row
Khashaba Dadasaheb Jadhav (1952 Helsinki) - Bronze in Bantamweight
Wrestling
Leander Paes (1996 Atlanta) - Bronze in Lawn Tennis
Karnam Malleshwari (2000 Sydney) - Bronze in 69 kg Weightlifting
Rajyavardhan Singh Rathore (2004 Athens) - Silver in Double Trap Shooting
Vijender Singh Beniwal (2008 Beijing) - Bronze in Middle Weight Boxing
Abhinav Bindra (2008 Beijing) -Noble Thoughts ComeRifle Shooting
Gold in 10m to us from all
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32. Indian Olympics Medal Winners
Bottom (Left to right)
Vijay Kumar (2012 London) - Silver in 25m Rapid Fire Pistol Shooting
Sushil Kumar (2008 Beijing & 2012 London) - Bronze & Silver respectively in
66kg Freestyle Wrestling
Saina Nehwal (2012 London) - Bronze in Badminton
Yogeshwar Dutt (2012 London) - Bronze in 60kg Freestyle Wrestling
Gagan Narang (2012 London) - Bronze in 10m Air Rifle Shooting
MC Mary Kom (2012 London) - Bronze in 51kg Fly Weight Boxing
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38. Saint Ashtavakra Quotations
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39. Saint Ashtavakra Quotations
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40. Teacher of Differently Challenged Persons
Vishnu Sharma (1200 BC)
 Author of Pancha Tantra
 Treated 3 Mentally Dullard
children of a king and
made them wise
 a
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41. Saint Ashtavakra Quotations
Let Noble Thoughts Come to us from all
Directions- Rig Veda
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42. Saint Ashtavakra Quotations
Let Noble Thoughts Come to us from all
Directions- Rig Veda
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43. Saint Ashtavakra Quotations
Let Noble Thoughts Come to us from all
Directions- Rig Veda
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44. Saint Ashtavakra
Let Noble Thoughts Come to us from all
Directions- Rig Veda
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