I had to undergo the accident to get the beautiful life I have now, says Malvika Iyer

The audience listened attentively and broke into applause every time #MalvikaIyer shared wisdom from her lived experience. The bilateral amputee and self-detonated bomb blast ‘survivor’, as she calls herself, described the tragedy that struck her at the age of 13 as a ‘poetic accident’. “I had multiple fractures, nerve paralysis and hypoesthesia, at least 13 surgeries… the list can go on. But I believe that grief and suffering cease when meaning can be found from them.” She was speaking to a captivated audience at the 10th edition of TNIE's ThinkEdu Conclave.