Kindle light in dark homes

Kindle light in dark homes

Your life is not determined by the outward conditions and circumstances but by the thoughts that habitually occupy your mind. It is really not only interesting but exciting to know how a young widow thought to light a candle, where it would have extinguished and brought hope, where despair would have existed.

Shanty Ranganathan lost her husband at a very young age. Her husband died because he was an alcoholic. For a while the future appeared to be dim, dark, uncertain and hopeless, but again she thought, there may be many women who have lost their husbands or may have lost the bread earner of their family because of drinking habit, “It was a challenge and she accepted the challenge an atmosphere where people could be discouraged and stopped taking to alcohol.

Determined to drive away the habit of drinking, she went to the Huston Institute of the United States of America with the financial support of her in-laws to learn how the habit of drinking can be stopped. On return from the United States, she started TT Ranganathan Clinical Research Foundation with the help of her father-in-law and mother-in-law. The clinic, which she started in the year 1980, has taken the shape of a big hospital with 60 beds. It has become a hospital for the rehabilitation of alcoholics.

Shanti Devi’s believes that alcohol and drugs are the two dangerous diseases which affect not only the alcoholic but also his whole family. If a man and his family accept the fact that there is a positive side of giving up alcohol, then only a solution can be found out. On an average, it takes a month’s time for the rehabilitation of the individual. The patient is required to stay in the hospital where he is psychologically treated and efforts are made to cure diseases generated due to consumption of alcohol.

Shanti Devi’s dream institute is today recognized by the world health organizations are generously helping for the consolidation and growth of the institution. Shanti Ranganathan was honoured by the United Nations Vienna Civil Society in the year 1999. Shanti Devi’s story tells us that through imagination and visualisations, one can achieve anything in life.