Life is an unpredictable journey. While most people give up in the face of struggles and trials, a few defy all odds and turn their life’s challenges into opportunities. The life of Manasi Joshi is a heart-warming story worth emulating. She waged an incredible war against her fate to carve out a path that would probably be remembered for generations to come.

Manasi was born on 11 June 1989, in Rajkot, Gujarat, and was raised in Mumbai. Her father, Girishchandra Joshi, was a scientist at Bhabha Atomic Research Centre. She was six when she started playing badminton with her father. She was a skilled player and participated in district and inter-school tournaments. After initial schooling, she completed her electronics engineering degree at the K.J. Somaiya College of Engineering, Mumbai. A software engineer by profession, she worked for ATOS India.

In 2011, Manasi’s life changed forever when she met with a road accident on her way home from work. She sustained severe injuries and had six surgeries during the 45 days that she spent in the hospital.

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Meet quintessential Mumbai girl Dinkle Shah. She’s 29, loves numbers, graduated from a college in the suburbs, lives with a loving family, did an MBA from Jamnalal Bajaj, works at Deloitte India in the Consulting wing, plays basketball as a defender and has won a gold medal in the sport. All good? Impressive, you might say. Definitely far above average.

Now what if I tell you she has been paralysed from the chest down since 2001, and has achieved all this in a wheelchair!

What if I tell you that she is a player with the Maharashtra Wheelchair Basketball women’s team, but when she started out in 2015, she was part of a mixed team!

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Mountaineering is tough even for the most physically and mentally fit individuals. But to take up this challenge even when you have lost one leg, calls for an unmatched degree of courage and sheer will. Anshul Bansal, 24, acquired this sense of fearlessness through his past experiences which changed the entire course of his life.

In his most recent expedition, while climbing Mount Satopanth, the second-highest peak in the Garhwal range of Himalayas, Anshul placed one foot after the other to reach the summit. Being the first amputee to climb this tough terrain, scores of thoughts ran across his mind as he went ahead. He thought he might never be able to see his parents again. He kept telling his fellow mountaineers that if he ever fell into any of those crevasses, to let his parents know that he tried his best.

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