| All that lows, Don't Make the hard working end low in their life |
 Take time to think ! But start acting immediately once you decide !All that lows, Dont Make the hard working end low in their life GreatChennaite earlier , Now he is deputy speaker of the New Jersey State Assembly. The first Indian to be elected to this body, his rise has been by hard work and positive thinking.Hailing Nellore, Chivukula came to Chennai in 1952 as a two- year- old, when his father moved In search of work Chivukula's mother Sathyanarayanamma and his sister D.Jyothi, still remember the tough times . "We sold our Nellore house to buy land in Chromepet,and had the tough times of our lives " There were six children and never enough money. "There were nine of us, including our grandmother," says jyothi. "He had to share a tiny room but would study late into the night by the light of a small lamp." His schooling was in telugu but in college ha made the difficult switch to English. If that was hard, getting into engineering college was harder. "My father was unemployed and didn't have money," says Chivukula. "But I had many dreams even though they were quite out of my reach." He got a merit-cum-means scholarship to attend Guindy Engineering College. Upendra I Chivukula is, in his own words, "an example of the adage education is the greatest equalizer," His father wanted him to start earning so that he could marry off his sisters, but he managed to complete his education made to the US and completed his higher education. His political career took off in the mid-1980s when Indian Americans were the target of hate crimes perpetrated by Dot busters, a street gang in Jersey City. The fourth Indian American to be elected to state office in the US, Chivukula is modest about his own achievements and full of praise for the Indian education system, the "main pluses of which are its emphasis on memorizing and repetition." He believes that if you are determined, success will follow. "Don't look for short cuts. Hard work and focus will yield great results." |