There is a ray of hope for quake hit-Gujarat. All it needs to do is listen to a 12-year-old girl, Prutha Desai. She might be small but towers over many in spirit. This girl who lost her right arm in the January 26 earthquake, six months ago, has shown great courage in starting life afresh, literally: from learning to write with her left hand to wearing socks. But what is remarkable is that Prutha hasn’t lost her smile, courage, or creativity in drawing and art, says a report in The Indian Express. Prutha says she can still feel her right arm as it was before it was amputated by surgery on January 27, 34 hours after she was brought out from the debris following the earthquake. Having lost her right hand, the first hurdle the 12-year-old had to cross was the idea of using her left hand to write and draw. “Initially I would get frustrated as my left hand was not stable and I could not draw properly,” she says in the report. But her father and uncle supported her all through. They gave her the courage which she needed most at that point of time. “People with one […]
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