Indian Inspirational Women Like Sonali Bhadauria

 

 

 

You can follow your dream at any point in your life, only if you believe them. This is what Sonali Bhadauria, a dancing sensation on YouTube has proved. Sonali who hails from Mumbai was fond of dancing since childhood. She used to replicate real steps of the songs playing on Tv or radio. As time passes by, she had to make the toughest choice of choosing her professional life. At that time, she decided to be an engineer rather than following her dream of dancing as her full-time profession. While working for Infosys after completing the engineering, she joined the dance club ‘Crazy Legs’, formed by the employees of Infosys. This was the beginning of realizing her dream of dancing into reality. She used to practice dance moves and participate in various competitions and events after office. She also met her better half during one of the group events of dancing and since then he stood by her side all the time. Owing to her dedication and hard work, she took her dancing skills at one higher level by designing choreographic sequences on her own. Her life completely changed when she started her YouTube Channel 'LiveToDance with Sonali' in 2016. After maintaining a hectic schedule for almost a year, she left her job to focus on her dancing skills and YouTube channel. Her choreographic sequence video of ‘Nashe Si ChadhGayi’ and ‘Shape Of You’ songs became an instant hit on YouTube. She became a popular dancing sensation after these two videos with around 2.17 Million Subscribers on YouTube. She recently got a chance to showcase her talent at YouTube Fanfest, 2018 held in Mumbai. She also enjoys a great fan following on other social platforms such as Facebook and Instagram with 572K Followers. This inspiring woman is not only living her dream of doing some big events and projects of dancing but also conducting a lot of dancing workshops to help others realize their dream of dance. She overcame every obstacle coming on her way and lead a perfect example for others to follow her journey and never give on your dreams.

Indian Inspirational Women Like Arunima Sinha

 

Arunima Sinha

The National Level Indian volleyball player, Arunima Sinha is the world's first female amputee to climb Mt. Everest in 2013. A champion in volleyball, this Indian sports person met with a shattering incident in the year 2011, when she was pushed from a running train, because of which her left leg was amputated.

At a point in her life when a career of sports seemed devastated, she resolved to conquer Everest and ever since did everything that was required to win this impossible mission. Arunima's career in mountain climbing continued to flourish as she moved on unflinchingly, to climb the great peaks of Mt. Kilimanjaro, Mt. Elbrus, Mt. Kosciusko, Mt. Aconcagua, Carstensz Pyramid and Mt. Vinson.

A New Dream

Arunima was born by the name of Sonu Sinha, in a lower-middle-class family in the Ambedkar Nagar District of Uttar Pradesh. From the young days of childhood, Arunima was an enthusiastic athlete and would take part in a variety of sports activities. Her keen interests however were in volleyball and mountaineering. She soon emerged as a National level volleyball player and wanted to join the paramilitary forces.

In April 2011 when Arunima was traveling to Delhi to take her CISF examination, she met with the most tragic incident of her life. A gang of robbers who had entered the train got into physical combat with Arunima, pushing her out of the train, somewhere near Bareilly.

With severe injuries all over the body, Arunima was admitted at AIIMS, Delhi where her left leg was amputated to save her life. A Delhi-based company sponsored her prosthetic leg, while the Indian Sports Ministry announced a compensation of INR 2,00,000. Even though she was offered a job by the CISF and the Indian Railways Arunima could not accept the accident putting a stop to her dreams of mountaineering and becoming a famous sports personality of India.

During her treatment period, she gathered strength, courage, and motivation to scale Everest. And to fulfill this dream, she started her basic mountaineering course at Nehru Institute of Mountaineering in Uttarkashi.

Reaching the Top

At a moment in life when one has lost all hopes of a future in sports, let alone mountaineering, Arunima's shining spirit was battling to keep hope. In 2011, as she was slowly moving towards recovery, she contacted Bachendri Pal, the first Indian woman to have climbed Mt. Everest.

The next year, when she was in a better physical condition, she started to pursue training under Pal at the Uttarkashi camp of the TSAF. As part of her golden mission, This Inspiring woman had to practice many smaller climbs. In April 2013, she reached the summit of Island Peak. On 31st March she started on her conquest to Everest and after 52 days of rigorous effort finally reached the peak in May 2013. She was lauded by the then Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh Akhilesh Yadav who bestowed an honor of Rs. 25 lakhs.

On the success of her Everest climb, Arunima, the famous Indian sports person became more determined to conquer all the seven highest peaks in the seven continents. By 2014, she had already covered the six, and in 2019 she completed the seventh peak, Mt. Vinson in Antarctica, making her the world's first female amputee to climb the peak.

Queen of the Hills

Arunima's grit and determination have taken her to a peak, that transcends the height of all mountains. She is recognized by the Limca Book of World records for her inspirational achievements. The story of her life fills one's heart with hope and aspiration. In the year 2013, she was honored with the Padma Shri. Needless to say that the climb to where she is standing today has been beset with unthinkable struggles and obstacles.

At a young age, she had to start giving up on sports, so that she could find a job to stand by her family. It was in the search of this opportunity of a potential job at CISF, that she boarded the train to Delhi. What happened, changed her life forever.

During her period at the hospital, the news of this famous Indian sportspersonality created a huge sensation in the media. The Sports Ministry conferred an amount as compensation and also guaranteed the best medical treatment for her. A rod fitted to her leg, she made her mind focused on the singular decision of climbing Everest.

Arunima in an interview recalls the unique problems that she would face during her climb. Her feet and ankle would often swivel resulting in a loss of grip for her. Seeing her in excruciating pain at times, even her Sherpa would feel this is only going to be a climb to death for her. Her power lay in her heart which was set on the conquest, and finally, she made it to the top of the world. In 2018, the mountaineer was awarded an honorary doctorate by the University of Strathclyde in Glasgow, Britain.

The inspiration she is, Arunima has not only become one of the world's greatest sports personalities but also runs a charitable organization for underprivileged and handicapped children. She plans to go a long way in training these children in sports activities and her goal is she this organization shine as much as her achievements.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Famous Indian Sports Personalities Like Bajrang Punia

 

Bajrang Punia

Born in Haryana, Bajrang Punia is a freestyle wrestler from India. This 20-year old promising Indian sports person started wrestling at the age of seven. Punia was trained at the regional center of Sports Authority of India (SAI) located in Sonepat. He participates in the 65 kg wrestling category and is the winner of three medals at the World Wrestling Championship.  Bajrang's first international victory was in 2013 when he won the bronze at the Asian Wrestling Championship after which he won many medals at the Commonwealth Games, the Asian Games, and several other tournaments.

Childhood Days

Hailing from a small village in the Jhajjar district of Haryana, Punia was encouraged by his father to venture into the avenue of sports. Not having enough money to receive training in sports like cricket or tennis, he started to take part in free sports like wrestling and Kabaddi. Initially having the hope of playing Kabaddi for Haryana Punia eventually became more adept at the game of wrestling.

A professional wrestler, Bajrang's father, Balvant Singh Punia, began his son's training at a local mud wrestling school. Soon his family shifted to Sonepat so that he could receive better training at SAI. From his early childhood days, Punia would follow the moves and techniques of famous wrestlers and work on his strength and agility. Growing up in a poor family, these wrestling stalwarts were his superheroes, his only inspirations.

Punia was greatly inspired by the famous Indian sports personality, Yogeshwar Dutt, who is an Olympic medalist in wrestling. His path to glory began on a prosperous note as he won the bronze in 2013 at the World Championship, Budapest. He continued to win yet another bronze at the Asian Championship 2013, and a silver at the Glasgow Commonwealth Games, 2014. In 2015, Punia was honored with the Arjuna Award for his contribution to the game of wrestling. Currently, this young sports talent also works for the Indian Railway to provide support to his family.

In the Spotlight

Inspired by Yogeshwar Dutt who later became one of his mentors, Bajrang Punia has laid a flourishing career in wrestling. In the 2013 Asian Wrestling championships held in New Delhi, Punia represented India for the first time. Even though he lost the game, in the same year the freestyle wrestler bagged the bronze at the World Wrestling Championships.

In the next year, Bajrang's unmatched skills and technique in the game fetched him the Silver medal at the Glasgow Commonwealth Games, 2014. Punia's career in sports has seen an upward rise ever since as he kept winning medals for the nation. Punia next won a Gold medal at the 2016 Commonwealth Championship in Singapore.

In the 2017 India Asian Wrestling Championship held in New Delhi, this famous Indian sportsperson won the gold medal earning accolades for himself. The next year, in the 2018 Commonwealth Games held in Gold Coast, Australia he won the gold medal by competing in the under 65kg freestyle wrestling category. 2018 won him yet another gold at the Asian Games, where he defeated Takatani Daichi.

Success Story

Not being born in a prosperous family, Bajrang's climb to success was filled with hardships indeed. However, he always had the strength and support of his family to walk on the path of his ambitions. Bajrang Punia with his flourishing accomplishments has become the role model for youngsters in the nation. Not only does he have to devote long hours to the practice of his game, but Punia also dutifully does his job at the Indian Railway.

After winning the bronze in 2013, Punia has put in even more dedication to his practice, determined to win all the other tournaments that he eventually took part in, and performed incredibly too. Throughout his victories and achievements, Punia is known to have been a humble man and has always strived towards improvement, an inherent trait of every true winner.

In the Pro Wrestling League that was spread across six cities, Bajrang fetched at Rs. 29.5 lakh, and the wrestler was picked by the JSW owned Bangalore franchise. On 18th January 2020, Bajrang emerged victorious over Jordan Oliver in the 65kg freestyle category of the Rome Ranking Series and became one of the great contemporary sports personalities of India, in the game of wrestling.

The Future

In 2019 Bajrang once again won a bronze at the World Championships, for a second time. This led to his much-deserved selection for the Tokyo Olympics, 2020 in the 65kg freestyle wrestling event. But as circumstances continue to pose threat because of the COVID 19 pandemic, we are yet to witness Punia's feat in the event. The sports icon has also donated his six month's salary to Haryana's COVID relief fund.

However, Punia is in constant touch with his Georgian coach, who instructs him online. Thus this famous sports personality of India is keeping himself physically and psychologically fit to pick up where he left off, once the game commences for him.

Youngest Entrepreneurs In India like Trishneet Arora

 

The CEO and founder of TAC Security, Trishneet Arora, is one of the brightest young entrepreneurs in India. He is also the writer of several books about ethical hacking, web defence, and cybersecurity. At just 25 years of age, he has a net worth of $1milliion-$5million. Apart from helping several corporate bodies with cyber security, he has also worked with the Gujarat and Punjab police departments, teaching them about cyber-security and helping them solve cases related to cybercrime.

Early experiments

Trishneet Arora was born in Ludhiana, Punjab, on 2^nd November 1993. His journey towards becoming one of the best entrepreneurs in India began at a young age of 11 when his father gifted him a computer. Trishneet immediately fell in love with the machine and started fiddling around with it.

After the computer crashed one day, he took it to a repair shop. There, he watched the technicians as they worked on his computer and noted exactly the things they did. He turned this into a habit, experimenting with the computer and taking it to the repair shop. This way, he came to know about computer hardware. He went to YouTube to learn more about computers and shared his new findings on his blog every day.

In spite of being a bright child, Trishneet failed his 8^th standard exams and he had to skip 9^th standard. His class X exams were completed via correspondence. When he was 16, he went to Chandigarh, 100 km away from Ludhiana. There he made some good friends pursuing engineering and from them, he learned the basics of cybersecurity.

While learning about cybersecurity, he also wrote his first book, which was a huge achievement for him at that age. He wanted to share his knowledge with the rest of the world but his book did not do very well. Nevertheless, he wasn't going to give up on his dreams because of this minor setback and kept pushing to become one of the top 10 entrepreneurs in India.

Starting his own company

In 2012, Trishneet Arora launched TAC Security, an IT security firm by partnering with his brother Avneet Singh Arora. Since the brothers had no prior background in business, they faced some difficulties initially while setting up the firm. They needed to do a lot of paperwork to get the company registered and this took a toll on Trishneet.

Looking back at this stage of his life, Trishneet says that your passion for something can help you cross all obstacles and seeing as he is one of the most successful entrepreneurs in India today, we can agree with him. Within the first week of launching his company, Trishneet got his first order from a particular company asking him to provide security for their web business.

Since then, TAC security hasn’t had to look back. Today, his company provides security consulting, solutions, and training for its customers. In Ludhiana, he delivered a speech at a cyber-crime conference where many senior police officers were present. Impressed by his speech, these officials from Ludhiana police to make a workshop about cyber-crime. After this, the Gujarat police also approached him to conduct a training session related to forensics and cyber-crime investigation.

Within a short period of time, Trishneet started training police personnel about cybercrime and today he works alongside the CBI for solving cyber-crime issues. This is how he gained fame as an ethical hacker. So apart from being one of the most successful young entrepreneurs in India, he also helps the authorities catch hackers who misuse their abilities. Trishneet recognizes the meteoric rise of cyber-crime in the country and is committed to eradicating it.

When it comes to cyber-crime, Trishneet's approach is a bit different. Most cybersecurity professionals take action after the crime has occurred, but his company provides advanced solutions to the customers so that they can secure their systems before an attack occurs. He is a firm believer in customer satisfaction and makes sure all their demands are fulfilled. Hailing from a humble, middle-class background, Trishneet Arora managed to launch one of the biggest cybersecurity firms in the country and today he is one of the top entrepreneursin India.

Apart from the Gujarat and Punjab police departments, his company’s customers include big names like ICICI Bank and Reliance Industries Ltd. He is currently negotiating with other clients and trying to secure some deals. He has won numerous awards like the State Award from the Punjab Chief Minister, the Punjabi Icon Award, and has been featured in the 50 Most Influential Young Indians by GQ magazine in 2017.

Today, Trishneet is expanding his business and setting up new offices in Gujarat and Mumbai. He is also expanding overseas. The number of achievements he has made at such a young age is indeed impressive.