A 24 year old girl traveling on the general
compartment of the Padmavat Express on the way to Delhi to get her date of birth to rectify on call letter. Being a single female traveller, criminals/thug who are
already in the train thought her as an easy prey, gathered around her and
started pulling the gold chain which is gifted by her mother on that day only.
As she refused to hand the chain over, they
started coming at the girl one at a time. She kicked punched and fought as best
as she could. For a brief moment, it even seems that the girl had the upper
hand. The compartment was full of people, but no one came to rescue of a girl
being robbed and attacked. Since they couldn’t take her on one at a time, each
grabbed a limb and hauled her out of the train.
The force threw her onto the opposite
tracks and what happened thereafter took a matter of seconds. Before she could
move her left leg off the track, a train went over it. After this 49 trains had passed over that
girl, as she lay legless and bleeding on the tracks. Rodents would come and
feast on her oozing wounds, scampering off when trains came. she kept screaming
in pain before finally passing out.
The very next morning she has taken to the Bareilly
District Hospital by villagers, her leg had to be amputated from below the knee
immediately to prevent gangrene from setting in. she was losing blood
alarmingly. The limb was
sawed off while she was fully conscious because hospital was out of
anaesthesia.
While she was fighting for the life, outside
she become a media sensation, newspapers and TV channels picked her story and
reported on the gory details. Both the UP and the national government got involved
and arranged for her to be shifted to AIIMS, but worst was yet to come.
As story captured national attention,
questions began to be asked that who was responsible for the accident but everyone
wanted to save themselves, this gives story a murky turn, First stories started
circulating that she was travelling without a ticket and had jumped to avoid being
caught by the ticket collector. CCTV footage showed her standing in a queue to
purchase the ticket. With this theory invalidated, even louder claims that she
wanted to commit suicide started doing the rounds.
Lying there on the hospital bed, when she was
at her weakest and most vulnerable, she felt helpless to defend herself and her
family against this onslaught. Her left leg was amputated, A rod was inserted
in right leg, from knee to ankle, to hold the shattered bones together. The
public imagination had reduced her to either a victim or an attempted suicide
case and to reclaim her voice and to
prove the truth of what happened to her, she consider the most impossible dream
she could set for herself and decided to climb the Everest.
This Iron-girl is non other
than Arunima Shina, who becomes the first female amputee to scale Everest, and
the first Indian amputee, to achieve this feat. Earlier this year she was
awarded the Padma Shri, the fourth highest civilian award in India.
Arunima Sinha is now dedicated towards social welfare and she
wants to open a free sports academy for the poor and differently-abled people.
She is donating all the financial aids she is getting through awards and
seminars for the same cause.The academy would be named Shaheed Chandra Shekhar
Vikalang Khel Academy.
She
wrote the book "Born again on the mountain", launched by Prime
minister of India Narendra Modi in
December 2014.
“Failure is not when we fall short of achieving our
goals. It is when we don’t have goals worthy enough”
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