Kolkata, 23rd September: Mother, Sangeeta Dey initially appears to be quite similar to the rest of her college classmates in her journalism and mass communications class. However, appearances can be deceiving: Sangeeta, a woman in her 40s, is in a classroom with teenagers, and her daughter Saheli is seated next to her on a bench.
With the active support of her two daughters, Sarmistha and Saheli, Sangeeta, a telemarketer for a Sector-1 company, is a rare example of someone who is pursuing her dream of higher education after 26 years of marriage.
The age difference between two of her students was first brought to her attention by Shilpi Mukherjee, a teacher at the Maharaja Manindra Chandra College in north Kolkata, on Monday, September 19, when the institution was conducting a physical verification of students who made it to the merit list. Both Sangeeta and Saheli had just passed their high school exams; the mother received a 438 while the daughter received a 397.
In 1996, the year Sangeeta was supposed to start Madhyamik, her marriage caused a disruption in her education. Her plans to continue her studies were put on hold as a result of her life. In 1997, Sarmistha was born, and in 2004, Saheli. She had no time for school because she had to raise two children and assist her husband, a professional driver.
‘My job meets needs, but education is my passion.’
After her education was disrupted, Sangeeta Dey, now in her forties, considered studying in 2018 when she wanted to pursue a career in nursing but was rejected because she failed Madhyamik. Her life was altered by that day. In the same year that her younger daughter Saheli took the exam, I entered Rabindra Mukta Vidyalaya and did well.
Saheli was initially accepted into a high school. Then, she added, “I enrolled in Nandan Nagar Adarsha Uchha Balika Vidyalaya, which is close to my Belgharia home. I told the headmistress everything, and she let me in.”
It was awkward to attend school in a sari during my two years of high school. I brought a change of clothes in my bag, changed into it when I got to school and then changed back into my sari before I left. Sangeeta emphasizes how her two daughters’ support and encouragement made it all possible.
After 26 years of marriage, returning to school is never simple, she told TOI. But I had the support of my daughters. Saheli claimed that Sangeeta read the textbooks of her and her sister “even while cooking or doing her chores.” “Didi and I kept urging her to complete her coursework. When the HS results were announced, Baba was overjoyed and teased me, saying my mother had scored higher than I had. Sangeeta values her role as a telemarketer. “My job is crucial to meeting our family’s needs, but my passion is education. she says. Biswajit Das, HOD at Sangeeta’s college, said, “A woman who is so passionate about formal education is an inspiration.
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