Ms Ira Singhal was born in Meerut to Mr Rajendra Singhal and Mrs Anita Singhal.

Her father is an engineer and mother is an insurance advisor. She was among the toppers at Sophia Girls School,
Meerut and Loreto Convent School, Delhi. Ira suffers from scoliosis, a spine-related disorder, which disrupts her
arm movement. She completed her schooling from the Army Public School, Dhaula Kuan and studied Computer
Engineering from Netaji Subhas Institute of Technology and received Dual MBA in Marketing & Finance from
Faculty of Management Studies, Delhi.

Passing the Civil Service Examination in 2010 was not enough as authorities cited her inability to push, pull and lift.
She was refused a posting because she suffers from scoliosis or curvature of the spine. In 2012 she filed a case in the
Central Administrative Tribunal (CAT) and won after four years, after which she was given a posting as Assistant
Commissioner in Indian Revenue Service (C&CE). Ms Singhal gave the civil service examination in 2010, 2011,
2013 and 2014 & in first three attempts she got Indian Revenue Service whereas in 2014 she got Indian
Administrative Service.

After MBA, before sitting for Civil Services Examination in 2010, she worked as a Strategy Manager in Cadbury
India and as marketing intern at the Coca Cola Company. She has also taught Spanish for a year. She is posted as
Assistant Collector (trainee) in the Government of Delhi since June 2016.

Scientist Stephen Hawking is known for his groundbreaking work with black holes and
relativity, and is the author of several popular science books including 'A Brief History of Time.'

Stephen Hawking was born on January 8, 1942, in Oxford, England. At an early age, Hawking showed a passion for
science and the sky. At age 21, while studying cosmology at the University of Cambridge, he was diagnosed with
amyotrophic lateral sclerosis. Despite his debilitating illness, he has done groundbreaking work in physics and
cosmology, and his several books have helped to make science accessible to everyone. Part of his life story was
depicted in the 2014 film The Theory of Everything.

Helen Adams Keller (June 27, 1880 June 1, 1968) was an American author, political
activist, and lecturer. She was the first deaf-blind person to earn a bachelor of arts degree. The story of how Keller's
teacher, Anne Sullivan, broke through the isolation imposed by a near complete lack of language, allowing the girl
to blossom as she learned to communicate, has become widely known through the dramatic depictions of the play
and film The Miracle Worker. Her birthplace in West Tuscumbia, Alabama, is now a museum and sponsors an
annual "Helen Keller Day". Her birthday on June 27 is commemorated as Helen Keller Day in the U.S. state of
Pennsylvania and was authorized at the federal level by presidential proclamation by President Jimmy Carter in
1980, the 100th anniversary of her birth.

Helen Adams Keller was born on June 27, 1880, in Tuscumbia, Alabama. Her family lived on a homestead, Ivy
Green, that Helen's grandfather had built decades earlier. She had two siblings, Mildred Campbell and Phillip
Brooks Keller, and two older half-brothers from her father's prior marriage, James and William Simpson Keller

Helen Keller was born with the ability to see and hear. At 19 months old, she contracted an unknown illness
described by doctors as "an acute congestion of the stomach and the brain", which might have been scarlet fever or
meningitis. The illness left her both deaf and blind. At that time, she was able to communicate somewhat with
Martha Washington, the six-year-old daughter of the family cook, who understood her signs; by the age of seven,
Keller had more than 60 home signs to communicate with her family. Even though blind and deaf, Helen Keller had
passed through many obstacles and she learned to live with her disabilities. She learned how to tell which person
was walking by from the vibrations their footsteps would make. The sex and age of the person could be identified by
how strong and continuous the steps were

Keller proved to the world that deaf people could all learn to communicate and that they could survive in the hearing
world. She also taught that deaf people are capable of doing things that hearing people can do. One of the most
famous deaf people in history, she is an idol to many deaf people in the world

Sudha Chandran (born 27 September 1965) is an Indian film and television actress
and an accomplished Bharatanatyam dancer.Chandran was born in Mumbai to a Tamil family. She had stated in an
interview of Nettv4u, that she was born and raised in Mumbai, but her family originates from Vayaloor,
Tiruchirapally, Tamil Nadu. Her grand parents who were the fourth generation had migrated to Palakkad, Kerala.
Her father worked at USIS and is a former actor. Chandran earned her B.A. from Mithibai College, Mumbai and
subsequently an M.A. in Economics.

In May 1981, while travelling in Tamil Nadu, Chandran met with an accident in which her legs were wounded. She
received initial medical treatment of her injuries at a local hospital and was later admitted to Vijaya Hospital at
Madras. After doctors discovered that gangrene had formed on her right leg, amputation was required. Chandran
says that this period was the toughest time of her life. She subsequently overcame her disability with the help of a
prosthetic Jaipur foot. She returned to dancing after a gap of two years and performed in Europe, Canada and the
Middle East. Her biography is part of curriculum for school children in the age group of 8-11