Believing is seeing Major Gopal Mitra

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Believing is Seeing – Major Gopal Mitra

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Believing is Seeing – Major Gopal Mitra
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Believing is Seeing
 A blind major keeps his winning streak.
 He lost sight but not vision.
 Sets a record at TISS,
 Now London School of Economics wants him.
 Major Gopal Mitra’s life is a reverting tale of a champion, who triumphed
over terrible handicaps, to take control of his destiny.
 Lost his sight in November 2000, after a landmine exploded on his face,
during a search and destroy operation in Kupwara( J & K).
 Easy for him was to sink himself into anger and self pity, but he choose to
bounce back and redraw his boundaries once again.

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 This 34 year old set a record at Tata Institute of Social Sciences, by becoming
the first blind student to top in a post graduate course; MA in Social Sciences.
 Its easier said than done.
 What would have been my response if such a situation confronted me
starkly?

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Mitra sums up aptly ‘ Army teaches you to take the rough with the smooth.
Six years of soldiering gave me enough resolve to make a comeback.
I never tip toed around my blindness’.
Commissioned into 15 Mahar in 1995, Mitra was decorated with Sena Medal
for gallantry ops in Assam, in January 2000.
His face was severely damaged in the blast, while his facial features were
barely recognizable with criss- cross of over 60 stitches; required 30 rounds of
surgery in 18 months.

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 He used a software – Job Access with Speech,conducted at National Institute
of Visually Handicapped at Deradhun.
 A strange coincidence – his wife – Sreerupa’s father : Capt J K Sengupta had
lost both his eyes in the1965 Indo – Pak conflict.
Summing up his TISS experience, Mitra states
 ‘ While the course was challenging and enriching – important gain was the
evolution of self belief and confidence.
 Insignificant activities like boarding a bus independently, suddenly
appeared
to be a gigantic task, whose achievement was stupendous.
 Negotiating ways around the narrow slum lanes during field work, were the

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itra bagged the trophy for best student amongst 200 in the course.
s study expenses at London School of Economics are expected to be met
most entirely by the army, the war disabled foundation and the Tata Trust
f Scholarships.

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Mitra evolved from simply seeing to visioning, then experiencing
While most of us devolve our vision into simply seeing and getting reduced
to being a by standers.
Ponder- Reflect on our check chart - Now

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I shall do so much in the years to come,
But what have I done today?
I shall give my gold in a princely sum,
But what did I give today?
I shall build a mansion in the sky,
But what have I built today?
It’s sweet in idle dreams to bask,
But if not I, who shall do the task?
Yes, this is the question, each soul must ask:
What have I done today?

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