{"id":1362,"date":"2012-08-24T08:58:48","date_gmt":"2012-08-24T03:28:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hcurocks.wordpress.com\/?p=1362"},"modified":"2012-08-24T08:58:48","modified_gmt":"2012-08-24T03:28:48","slug":"a-very-special-milestone-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ramramaswamy.org\/blog\/2012\/08\/24\/a-very-special-milestone-2\/","title":{"rendered":"A very special milestone"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align:justify;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/hcurocks.files.wordpress.com\/2012\/08\/untitled.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-1363\" title=\"Untitled\" src=\"http:\/\/hcurocks.files.wordpress.com\/2012\/08\/untitled.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"190\" height=\"225\" \/><\/a><strong>19\/07\/12<\/strong>. On this day, for the first time in the history of the Department of Economics at the University of Hyderabad (and possibly a first in the University), a visually challenged candidate, Ms. <strong>B. Madhuri Smitha<\/strong>, successfully defended her Ph. D. thesis in Economics. One of her two thesis supervisors, Dr Naresh K Sharma (the other is Dr B Kamaiah) writes:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify;\"><em>Though denied of the great faculty of vision (Ms. Madhuri Smitha has total loss of vision) by nature, she is well endowed, by the same nature&#8217;s benevolence, with abundant intelligence and a will to achieve her own targets. Incidentally, this first feat (in Economics at HCU) by a visually challenged person, is achieved by a women candidate. In addition to her own great perseverance and hard work, she was supported with equally great dedication by her mother in this work and also backing of her father. She has completed her Ph. D. work while working as a faculty member at the Koti Women&#8217;s College ( a constituent college of OU). <\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify;\">It is always humbling to see such courage and determination, and always an inspiration. Thank you, <strong>Dr Smitha<\/strong>, and from the entire University community, our heartiest congratulations and best wishes!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify;\">Her graduation photograph is on <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/tinyurl.com\/9oe87ep\">Facebook<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>19\/07\/12. On this day, for the first time in the history of the Department of Economics at the University of Hyderabad (and possibly a first in the University), a visually challenged candidate, Ms. B. Madhuri Smitha, successfully defended her Ph. D. thesis in Economics. One of her two thesis supervisors, Dr Naresh K Sharma (the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1362","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-awards"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paG6mN-lY","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ramramaswamy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1362","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ramramaswamy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ramramaswamy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ramramaswamy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ramramaswamy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1362"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ramramaswamy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1362\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ramramaswamy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1362"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ramramaswamy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1362"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ramramaswamy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1362"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}