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Keywords: Painter, Kolkata

Kolkata: Madhuri's brushes conceal her condition. Her canvases guard the secret that the brush wasn't held between fingers.

A recipient of the President's award for her paintings, Madhuri is an icon of denial. Her refusal to yield to her situation has helped her become a celebrated artist whose works are regularly exhibited in Kolkata and bought by collectors.

But that's not Madhuri's only accomplishment. She is a teacher of computers at the Indian Institute of Cerebral Palsy and most importantly can support herself to a great extent from the confines of her wheelchair.

Says her mother Saroj Kapur, "She can travel on her own, she can go shopping, she can even go to the movies and she is very strong when she has made up her mind. She does what she wants."

Madhuri communicates through the computer. A commerce graduate from an open university, she has worked full-time with several companies for nearly a decade before she fell out of love with cushy jobs - as if they weren't challenging enough.

But Madhuri's indomitable spirit made her strive for more.