About the Book: Flight on Broken Wings: An Autobiography Lamps
Sumitra Mehrol was a mere child when she was struck with polio. Her parents,
struggling to make ends meet, coping with a growing family, were not able to
give her the attention she needed to be fully cured. Nor was medical care
readily available or a reliable diagnosis easy to access. As a result, the
illness remained largely unattended and Sumitra grew up with a disability,
facing scorn, often insults, from many around her. When combined with the fact
of her belonging to a Dalit family, something she began to understand as she
grew into adulthood,