There are some amazing stories about CAs in India:
Prema Jaykumar
She lives out of a 300 square feet room in Mumbai along with 3 family members. Her dad drives an auto-rickshaw for a living and earns Rs 15,000 a month. So what’s so special about the lady, Prema Jayakumar? Well, she has topped the all-India Chartered Accountancy exam with a stunning total of 607 out of 800. Thanks to the national media she has rightfully attracted nation wide attention for her extraordinary performance. She clearly symbolises the spirit of “Yes We Can.”
And there were others...
Padma Harirangan
There have been others in the past who have shown similar grit. A lady, at the age of 42, on the untimely death of her young husband, decided to do CA. 4 years later she qualified at the age of 46, Padma Harirangan. This, mark it, happened in the 1980s.
B Jairam
A young lad, going 95 per cent visually challenged, underwent Internship in Chennai, attended classes like any other soul, did his reading with the help of a computer and wrote his exams with the aid of a scribe to qualify in 2006 as a CA. Today, he works with the Reserve Bank of India in Hyderabad. That’s a clear victory of mind over matter.
Ajit Shekawath
Imagine someone having cerebral palsy. This is an umbrella term that refers to physical disability in human development. Its closest cousin is spastics. It has no cure. Imagine such a person wanting to do CA. We would have laughed our heads off. Even to the best of brains CA is a challenging course. Yet a person born with such cerebral palsy cleared the CA exam in June 2009. When he passed his exams he was 27-year old.
Shailesh Ghule
He lived out of a 12x25 room in a ghetto with a family of five; born to a housemaid mother and a textile loom worker father. He himself worked as an office boy and rode 7 km to office for work. But none of this stopped Shailesh Ghule from emerging as a Chartered Accountant. Indeed, a classic case of rising above poverty to compete with those who are materially well off.
Age is matter of mind...
P S Menon
A stockbroker who had passed his CA Intermediate examination in 1987 came back nearly 20 years later to pursue his CA-Final. In his mid forties now, with a profession to look-after, he takes on the agony of the final examination and there is ecstasy in the end.
S D Bala
At age 57, a former banker, decides to take-up Chartered Accountancy undaunted. He goes through the contours of Internship, toils upwards in the night for his exams,battles with minds that are about 40 years younger than his; and in January 2002, days before he turns 60, he becomes a CA! That’s S D Bala; the man who proved that what could be imagined can be achieved.
R Balagangadharan
If these stumped you,this one will make you drop your jaws. 69 years young R Balagangadharan,partner at a top Chennai firm, registered for his ICWA and at age 72 qualified as a Cost Accountant.
Each of them symbolized the spirit of “Yes we can.”
Amazing stories of grit and of determination; stories that symbolize the spirit of “Yes We Can.” And I am sure there are more thathave not yet been heard of.
CA spawns a web of exciting winners. The daughter of an auto-driver, a widowed home-maker, a young visually challenged lad, another fighting cerebral palsy, a gentleman in his 40s,another in his late 50s and still another in his early 70s – all crack the CA code. You also can.
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