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going to miss. It was one of her friends’ parents who told her what had happened. The girl in the front passenger seat died in the accident. Anu’s best friend – whom she had exchanged seats with – had slipped into a coma. Two others, besides Anu herself, had extensive injuries. What makes a woman a superwoman? Her ‘never say die’ spirit. Even in the face of insurmountable
get up to go to the washroom – it was when she failed repeatedly that the extent of her injuries truly sunk in. She had a dislocated hip, fractured spine in the neck, a broken nose and lots of wounds and bruises. Whether she would walk again was a big question mark. And yet, she did not for even a moment doubt her ability to recover 100 percent. Against medical advice, she
L-R: Before the accident; her buddies who were in the car with her (one is still in coma); after the car crash
odds, she never gives up and instead challenges the universe. Unknowing of what lay ahead, the young Kolkata girl turned superwoman almost overnight. Anuradha was moved to a private hospital in Bengaluru. All the while, she was sure that she would soon be patched up, and all the nonsense that doctors were telling her about not moving and using a bed pan was hype. Stubbornly, she tried to JUNE 2018
flew back to Kolkata in two weeks. From there on, she fought every prognosis the doctors gave. It was a lifelong habit for Anu. Born 20 years after her parents’ wedding, she had had to face all kinds of challenges right from childhood, with health being the greatest. Diagnosed with bone tuberculosis at two, childhood thyroid disorder at five, and PCOD at puberty, life could not have been easy