Dhanya Ravi, a national and state award winning disability evangelist who aspires for a Rare-disease free and inclusive India!!!
She has spoken at many events across the globe including TEDx twice to empower differently-abled people to improve their lives and careers. She is one of the founder trustees of Aasmaan Foundation Trust and a facilitator for an inclusive dance group called “The Invincible”. She volunteers audio reads for persons with visual impairments. Here is the summary of our conversation with Dhanya:
- I aspire for a Rare Disease-Free India. Each of us need to take this as a personal responsibility.
- Life is something to be lived and not escaped.
- At a personal level I am still the same person. I still have my struggles. I am happy when people tell me that my work is making an impact.
- Writing is how I make myself independent.
- I am living a life that I am content with.
- Life is about living it. Stigmas are meant to be broken.
- For me, motivation happens from within, it is DHANYA vs DHANYA.
- My thoughts to special parents. The children need a little more help. They are not different from others.
- Many people have influenced me. However, we need to create an identity for ourselves. We need to be responsible.
- My parents and my mentors have helped me become the person who I am today.
- Pandemic made us realise that we are guests here. I do not want to call it as bad time – we just need to evolve with it.
- Life is what we make it.
