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...
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.
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, B Jairam.
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. Meet the 27-yearold
Ajit Shekawath.
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 a matter of the mind...
A stockbroker who had passed his CA Intermediate
examination in 1987 came back
nearly 20 years later to pursue his 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.
Meet P S Menon.
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.
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 that
have not yet been heard of. n
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...
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.
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, B Jairam.
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. Meet the 27-yearold
Ajit Shekawath.
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 a matter of the mind...
A stockbroker who had passed his CA Intermediate
examination in 1987 came back
nearly 20 years later to pursue his 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.
Meet P S Menon.
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.
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 that
have not yet been heard of. n
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