I was no special nor had I any special talents and qualities hiding in me that could make me change my life from the way it was. Neither was I well educated nor had I a vast knowledge like many possess these days. I, like a simple housewife was happy to lead the life which my destiny asked me to, even by tolerating the betrayal which my husband had planned for me. An inferior person like me required a guide, a philosopher who could break the ice and free me from what I was and such a personality I found in a teacher who took the challenge of changing my life. But before coming towards the turning point, let me take you all a few years back so that you can learn about me in a much better way.

Nisha Aggarwal and that was the name I was allotted with by my parents when I was born to them. I well remember once I was told by my grandmother that the meaning which hides in my name is Night. But not only a night of darkness but a night of peace. A night filled with quietness that promises to bring the brightest sun to shine up brightly the very other day.

My childhood days, if I am to mention about were filled with my grandmother's love, my father's busy schedule and my mother who had been an inspiration for many. My mother who was a teacher was respected, loved and inspired by all her students. She wanted to fill up her qualities in me so that I may too grow up to be a good teacher like her but her sudden and unfortunate death at my 6 years of age changed my whole life. Within a few years my father remarried and I along with my grandmother came to a small town from where she brought me up. It was now my grandmother who worked on...