{"id":955,"date":"2019-03-23T17:38:57","date_gmt":"2019-03-23T12:08:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/3wc.org\/xpress\/?p=955"},"modified":"2019-03-23T18:25:47","modified_gmt":"2019-03-23T12:55:47","slug":"nirmala-sharma-an-indomitable-spirit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/3wc.org\/xpress\/nirmala-sharma-an-indomitable-spirit\/","title":{"rendered":"Nirmala Sharma &#8211;  An Indomitable Spirit"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Some inspire us to &#8220;<em><strong>move on, live our life<\/strong><\/em>&#8220;, we just need to look around, get inspired to live with Happy Mindset despite all hardships.<br><br>She enjoys her work for hours, while standing and diligently fixing the strands of clay at the age of 74, with a smile on the serene face at pottery workshop of Bharat Bhawan, Bhopal.<br><br><strong>Nirmala Sharma<\/strong> is a perfect epitome of <em><strong>&#8216;Zest for life&#8217;<\/strong><\/em>. I bumped into her in 2016 while entour to Bhopal and whosoever meets her or get to know about her bows down with respect and heart gets filled with love.<br><br>When asked how she manages to work so hard, she answers in a low, smiling manner that she is defying age and time. One gets astonished while watching her bake &#8216;<strong><em>matti<\/em><\/strong>&#8216; artifacts at 750*F.<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p> Her passion for artifacts is her only &#8216;<em>world<\/em>&#8216; in this world.Her only son, an army personnel was killed in Kashmir in 1994, who was posthumously conferred <em><strong>Kirti Chakra<\/strong><\/em>. Her husband also left for heavenly abode long back.  <\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>She is truly the mother of Bhopal city who arranges in memory of her son Annual Charity Exhibition&nbsp; of artifacts for the welfare of army personnel and invited as guest of honour on every national festival or army functions.<br>Her association with clay was a chance encounter in 1986&nbsp; when she was transferred as PGT (Economics) to KV, Bairagarh, Bhopal. It turned out to be a blessing in disguise for her as she didn&#8217;t succumb to depression after the death of her young son subsequently losing her son. After that she never looked back and continues to experiment with &#8216;<em><strong>matti<\/strong><\/em>&#8216; giving workshops, carrying on with innumerable solo or joint exhibitions in almost every city of India even, has friends of each age group in every city.&nbsp;The warmth and fragrance of her love lingers on and stays with every connected soul.<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>A SALUTE TO HER STRONG -WILL. A TRUE AMBASSADOR OF ZEAL AND ZEST WHO&nbsp; INSPIRES TO MOVE AHEAD EVEN IN&nbsp; TURBULENT WATERS.<br><\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-preformatted\">The post is submitted by Ms. <em><strong>Sunita Hussain. <\/strong><\/em>You all can also share inspirational women's success stories here. Mail it to <em><strong>catalystchief at gmail dot com<\/strong><\/em> us for review. TIA :)<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nirmala Sharma &#8211;  An Indomitable Spirit. Nirmala Sharma is a perfect epitome of &#8216;Zest for life&#8217;. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":957,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[50,21,23,1,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-955","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-arts","category-lifestyle","category-noteworthy","category-trends","category-women-at-home"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/3wc.org\/xpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/955","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/3wc.org\/xpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/3wc.org\/xpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/3wc.org\/xpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/3wc.org\/xpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=955"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/3wc.org\/xpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/955\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":963,"href":"https:\/\/3wc.org\/xpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/955\/revisions\/963"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/3wc.org\/xpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/957"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/3wc.org\/xpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=955"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/3wc.org\/xpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=955"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/3wc.org\/xpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=955"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}