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| K.N.K.Karthyayani, Karuppamkulangara, Cherthala, Alappuzha |
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K.N.K.Karthyayani, the first woman Chief Postmaster General of Kerala faced cancer as she would treat a speed post article – to be despatched at the earliest. And as she came to know of the diagnosis from her son, she felt no alarm at all. She drove herself to the doctor and came back after fixing the date of operation.
She felt no fear about the operation. Cutting short her 10 days leave, she started attending office from the 7th day itself. And the chemotherapy, which usually crushes ordinary folks, too could not vex her spirit. To the amazement of even the doctors, she attended office on the 3rd day after the chemotherapy session.
“Being idle is the cause of all worries. Involve totally in the work and pray to God in the remaining time. In the midst of such schedule one doesn’t have time to think of the disease. The only thing one remembers is the medicines to be taken”, she says about her approach to life.
A brilliant student all through, Karthyayani joined Civil Service at the age of 23 in 1970 and worked in various capacities in the Postal Department. Her region was always the first to achieve targets in the new schemes of the department like Mahila Samrudhi Yojana and Postal Life Insurance.
She learned the art of facing challenges in life from her own mother, who helped in bringing up her 2 sons. Although the climate at Mumbai and Delhi were not suitable to her mother, who was an asthma patient, she used to take everything stoically, saying such discomfort and diseases are bound to happen in human life. It was this strength of mind that inspired Karthyayani at critical junctures.
Her husband Sankar Narayanan is now at Mangalore. Her eldest son, Vivek, is a student of MD and younger one, Vijay is a final year student of MDS.
Courtesy: Vanitha, October 1-14, 2002
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