Let's Fire Up Those Neurons!

vijiamma i did recognise the picture in the puzzle as viswa sir said i would also like to visit that place.
@vijji amma thank you for giving us the virtual darshan of the site.

 

We had been there in 2002.
Jayasala 42

 

Welcome dear all the best to go there

 

Glad to know that you went there in 2002 Jayakka

 

Thank you for the warm welcome Priya dear, all the best to go there, I knew many will find out

 

Answer for #3453

OK, since almost everyone has already got the answer, it is Anandibai Gopalrao Joshi who was the first Indian woman who studied abroad and became a doctor. Sadly enough she did not live to practice her profession and died of tuberculosis soon after she returned at the age of 21. She was married in the vogue of that time at the age of 8.

Her story was really sad - from what I read, she was not really all that keen to study. It is good that her husband 'encouraged' her to study, but it was more of force. There is the story of how he once beat her because he found helping her grandmother in cooking instead of studying. He moved to Calcutta because he did not want the interference of her parents in his making her study.

She was not in great health when she moved to the US. It makes me wonder whether it was really worth it. Finally she did not get much time with her husband either in her short life.

Anyway, it is the sacrifice of souls such as these that has ensured that we are sitting here today discussing their lives on the net!

 

Mami,

I told with my whole heart whatever I had written.

The most beautiful narration is one which a layman can understand without having to take a dictionary for the meaning. It is the simplicity and the way you write that makes me like it more. Moreover I for one is not a english literature laureate and I too write in simple english only. The passion with which you write is visible in your writings and the happiness is spread to us. You know that the light in the lamp whether it is from a mud lamp or a silver lamp just produces the same amount of light and enlightens the room and us. So it is not in the words or vocabularies of the writing that brings the happiness, it is the essence and the passion with which it is written that brings the enjoyment and you have those qualities which is reflected in your narrations. Furthermore everyone who reads your snippets will understand it.

I don't know carnatic music, but still remember a saying my primary school carnatic music teacher used to say. Thyagarajar keerthis is like grapes, which you can easily eat, so does his songs can be easily sung. Like wise your snippets have a flavour which I like a lot.

Glad that you are here in IL neurite thread.

Thanks,
Vaidehi

 

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