Nightingale 3 – Choice, Chance & Change - CA Sivakumar & CA Pattabhi Ram

March 8, a day considered to commemorate Women, is aptly chosen as the date for the release of the book Nightingale 3 – Choice, Chance & Change, because its a biography of eleven women!! 27th of 2021

They are:

1) Nandita Shah Parekh first women gold medalist - retired from work and engaged with life now; 

2) Anuradha Mahesh - providing specially abled with sheltered employment creating inclusive world as there is ability in every disability in this short life. 

3) Sangeeta Sumesh - CFO turned corporate coach

4) Thanammai Ramachandran - Now VP of HDFC bank, she qualified CA at 37 after her husband passed away.

5) Sripriya Kumar - Council member for 6 years, 

6) S N Rajeshwari - United India Insurance Co. Ltd. regulator and head

7) Sarada Sriram - 1000+ centers teaching abacus to children in India and abroad

8) Meenakumari Venkateswaran - Dancer, Jouralisam, community service and corporate life.

9) Vidya Nagarajan - Tax expert with big 4

10) Pushkala Hariharan - Battled against depression and poverty. with discipline, dedication and determination, a case of dream and drive.

11) Lakshmi Ramamurthi - Runs anganwadi school with government - with passion, persistence and people

This book is all about these women, who have traveled the path less taken, with so much bravado, meeting their difficulties head on, finding solutions to forge their way forward, to stand where they are now, tall and strong in their respective positions. Their problems are still a part and parcel of their life, yet they keep going on, to become an inspiration to all women. They choose to live exemplary lifestyles of leadership and excellence.

"Let woman share the rights and she will emulate the virtues of man; for she must grow more perfect when emancipated." Mary Wollstonecraft

*Nightingale 3 – Choice, Chance & Change* is authored by Chartered Accountant stalwarts & my teachers - CA Sivakumar & CA Pattabhi Ram on the life of 11 women who shaped their lives on the choices they made & the chances they took to create the changes that they wanted. Writing team consisted of:

With creative work , giving life to all this is designer N Malaiselvan. Video audio by Harish Sahas.

Chief guest: Hon. Chitra Venkatramani, Judge. Madras High Court ( R) graced the occasion and ended with a beautiful story of what to do when adversity knock the door, with the story of Potatoes, egg and coffee bean, put in boiling water, each react differently. One becomes soft, other becomes hard and coffee bean spreading aroma around. 

 https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&fbclid=IwAR0XT0xIX-D6HS_7ehwvCNpiOEzspPYhjYRo96cs3CaU95LEzUmz-fRo7Xg&edufilter=NULL&v=Hd39LX0gD40

CA Pattabhi Ram Sir  said, that it was a fairy tale experience - capturing 45 women CA's. Any of this would not have been possible, without the writing team and the effort the Nightingales put in. 

Tradition, virtue and goodness is what Nightingale symbolize. Let there be no word like hurdle in the journey of life.