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Abha Khetarpal[1] born 10 June, 1968) is a writer, counsellor[2], teacher, social worker, motivational speaker, and disability rights activist[3] based in New Delhi, India. She is the founder of Cross The Hurdles – the first-ever counselling/educational resource website and mobile application designed exclusively for people with disabilities.

She has authored several publications, such as "Keeping You Abreast: A Handbook on Breast Cancer Self-Examination, Going with the Flow: Handbook on Menstrual Management & Hygiene", "Disabled Lives Matter", and others. She has been the recipient of several international and national awards such as Henry Viscardi Achievement Awards, 2019 and 100 Women Achievers Award, 2019 By Ministry of Women and Child Development, India.

She was one of the four protagonists in the National Award-winning documentary Accsex[4].

Personal life

Abha Khetarpal was born in Ambala, Haryana [5]to parents who were migrants from Burma.[6] Both her parents were teachers.[7] Abha contracted polio at the age of three.[8] She has been using assistive technology like leg braces, spinal braces, and a wheelchair for mobility.[9] Her parents homeschooled her up until the ninth standard, after which she went to a school.[10] Khetarpal went through therapies, reconstructive surgeries, and procedures including hip correction and procedures to improve scoliosis.[11] After attending four years of regular school, she faced inaccessibility and continued her higher studies through distance education.[12]

Abha started writing poetry in Hindi at the age of 18.[13]

She got married at the age of 47 years.[14]

  1. ^ "India's second COVID-19 wave has made healthcare, ableist even pre-pandemic, harder for disabled people to access-India News , Firstpost". Firstpost. 2021-05-21. Retrieved 2022-10-19.
  2. ^ "Abha Khetarpal Maurya – India | WEF". 2016-06-09. Retrieved 2022-10-19.
  3. ^ Salian, Priti (2022-01-22). ""I am disabled, it doesn't mean I have no dignity"". The Lancet. 399 (10322): 349–350. doi:10.1016/S0140-6736(22)00099-X. ISSN 0140-6736. PMID 35065776.
  4. ^ "Accsex – PSBT". Retrieved 2022-10-19.
  5. ^ "Abha Khetarpal :: Cross the Hurdles Web Network". crossthehurdles.org. Retrieved 2022-10-19.
  6. ^ "ability to win: Abha Khetarpal : A counselor with a Difference". ability to win. Retrieved 2022-10-19.
  7. ^ "Abha Khetarpal, who contracted polio at the age of 3, is helping hundreds overcome the hurdle of disability | The Optimist Citizen". 2016-10-03. Retrieved 2022-10-19.
  8. ^ "Survivor's Story: Abha Khetarpal's Journey [Polio]". IndiaTimes. 2011-09-24. Retrieved 2022-10-19.
  9. ^ "Abha Khetarpal :: Cross the Hurdles Web Network". crossthehurdles.org. Retrieved 2022-10-19.
  10. ^ mahekg (2017-04-01). "Born Fighter? - Meet Ms. Abha Khetrapal Maurya". zarahatkeblog. Retrieved 2022-10-19.
  11. ^ "Survivor's Story: Abha Khetarpal's Journey [Polio]". IndiaTimes. 2011-09-24. Retrieved 2022-10-19.
  12. ^ mahekg (2017-04-01). "Born Fighter? - Meet Ms. Abha Khetrapal Maurya". zarahatkeblog. Retrieved 2022-10-19.
  13. ^ "ability to win: Abha Khetarpal : A counselor with a Difference". ability to win. Retrieved 2022-10-19.
  14. ^ mahekg (2017-04-01). "Born Fighter? - Meet Ms. Abha Khetrapal Maurya". zarahatkeblog. Retrieved 2022-10-19.
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