An electric wire took his arm at 8. He won Paralympic gold at 23. And again at 35. Devendra Jhajharia, from a village in Rajasthan's Churu district, lost his left arm as a child after touching a live 11,000-volt wire while climbing a tree. #Bharat100 #ThoughtOfTheDay #India2047

Polio took the use of his leg. It didn't take his jump. Sharad Kumar, from Motipur, Bihar, was left with permanent paralysis in one leg after a childhood bout of polio. #Bharat100 #ThoughtOfTheDay #India2047

Polio left her leg permanently impaired. Her first husband stripped her and threw her and her two daughters out of their home. She didn't find her sport until she was 34. Sharmila Dhankar, born in Chhithroli village, Haryana, contracted polio at age 2… #Bharat100 #ThoughtOfTheDay #India2047

He lost his hand to a falling metal sheet in 2015 and thought his javelin career was over. Then a disqualification at the Rio Paralympics nearly broke him again. Sundar Singh Gurjar, from Karauli, Rajasthan, was already competing in javelin at the junior… #Bharat100 #ThoughtOfTheDay #India2047

He failed his 12th-grade board exam. He drove a tempo to fund his UPSC studies. He failed the exam itself three more times. Manoj Kumar Sharma was born into a poor farming family in Bilgaon, Madhya Pradesh and failed his 12th-standard board exam… #Bharat100 #ThoughtOfTheDay #India2047

She never learned to read. She spent her childhood planting trees for a day's wage. She kept planting for 35 years before anyone noticed. Tulsi Gowda was born into the Halakki tribal community in Honnalli, Karnataka… #Bharat100 #ThoughtOfTheDay #India2047

She was born blind. Her grandmother, who raised her, is deaf and mute. There was no one in her world who could describe it to her - so she ran through it instead. Rakshitha Raju, born in Chikmagalur, Karnataka, lost both her parents young and was raised… #Bharat100 #ThoughtOfTheDay #India2047

His wife left him. Villagers thought he was mentally ill. He kept building anyway - and changed how millions of women live. Arunachalam Muruganantham, a school dropout from Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu… #Bharat100 #ThoughtOfTheDay #India2047

His village had no electricity until he was seven. He now leads Australia's national academy of science. Chennupati Jagadish grew up in the farming village of Vallurupalem, Andhra Pradesh… #Bharat100 #ThoughtOfTheDay #India2047