DA Diary
Jansi Rani
Polio
Polio disabled her left leg when she was two and since then the calipers have been her constant companion.
But the 27–year–old could not stop grinning while narrating the strange co–incidence when she got a job in a BPO called Caliber Point. “The similarity of the two words was so striking that I asked the co–ordinator at my placement agency if they meant the same (as the Tamil alphabet is the same for b and p). He explained caliper stood for ability and that I was chosen because of that and not because of my calipers, which symbolized disability.”
During childhood, all her weight had been borne by her right leg–before the calipers were fixed–so this limb failed to grow to its normal length. Her only hassle is commuting as she has to change two buses to reach office.
Polio disabled her left leg when she was two and since then the calipers have been her constant companion.
But the 27–year–old could not stop grinning while narrating the strange co–incidence when she got a job in a BPO called Caliber Point. “The similarity of the two words was so striking that I asked the co–ordinator at my placement agency if they meant the same (as the Tamil alphabet is the same for b and p). He explained caliper stood for ability and that I was chosen because of that and not because of my calipers, which symbolized disability.”
During childhood, all her weight had been borne by her right leg–before the calipers were fixed–so this limb failed to grow to its normal length. Her only hassle is commuting as she has to change two buses to reach office.