A couple of days back, a headline in a daily newspaper titled, “Her Highway” caught my attention.
Yogita Raghuvanshi – The first Indian truck driver!
The article briefly described that Yogita, a law graduate and single mother, took to the wheels and has been driving her truck across the length and breadth of India for the last 15 years.
Driving on the highways picking up and delivering industrial goods, clocking about 500000 miles so far, she says life has been good to her.
Given the unfavorable conditions in some pockets of India for a single women, Yogita says she has never faced any handicap or felt vulnerable being a woman. In fact she has found people to be very helpful.
I applaud her courage and grit to break into a predominantly male bastion and make a successful career for herself. Kudos to such courageous women from everyday life, who set an example and inspire many others!
“ A strong woman has a strength enough for the journey, but a woman of strength knows it is in the journey where she will become strong. “
Have you come across any such strong women in a male dominated profession?
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An inspiring story, Radhika. Thanks for sharing it.
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Absolutely my pleasure Hélène!
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Great.. hat’s off to the lady and thanks to you for this beautiful share.. an inspiring one.. 😇💕👌🏼👌🏼
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Yes, her grit and courage is truly inspiring. Thanks Debika 💖.
Have you disabled the comments to your blog? Unable to do so since the last couple of days…..
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Not to thank me dear.. it’s always a pleasure..
Yes, dear.. it’s for a while.. thank you for asking Radhika.. 😇💕
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Ok. Take care. Have a wonderful day 💖
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Good read ma’am 👍!! .
Thank you for this share !!
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My pleasure Nirant. The achievements of inspiring people should reach far and wide 🙂
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Yess that’s true 💯
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Salute to Yogita ❤😊🙏
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Yes, hats off to her 🙏
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Such an inspirational story, when you do things different and break the norms for good, you inspire. A similar story which I came across was of Sujata Gidla. If you get time read about her and her occupation on Wiki.
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Thanks Abhay. Will definitely read about her 👍
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Thank you for sharing this inspiring story Radhika. I am pleased to note that she doesn’t feel vulnerable.
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Yes Balroop, that surprised me too. Shows how courageous and positive she is.
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Yes, more power to her!!
On my trip to Rajasthan 3 years ago, I met a young women in a famous spice store , I believe it was in Jodhpur, who was running the store along with her six sisters, after her father had passed, the seven young women took over the business of him, as he had wished. Unfortunately they were severely harassed by men, since it is uncommon for women in India to run their own business. Luckily they succeeded and by now they branched to London, UK for another location of their business. It is a long time ago, that I had a post about their story.
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Wow! I admire the courage such women show despite pressure from every corner. Bravo!
Do share a link of that post Cornelia. Would love to read it!
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I will try to find it, Radhika.
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The gender divide, unfortunately, is a part of India’s past and, hopefully, disappearing due to the efforts of the seven sisters you mentioned and the truck driver Radhika wrote about. I was happy to find a woman Ubar driver, who appeared cultured and educated, in a backwardness town like Nagpur in Maharashtra , India.
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Thank you Sir, for your comment on my comment. I am sure that women in India are on the rise of independency and being recognized for their power.
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Thank you for this amazing story – it is amazing that people are helpful and she doesn’t feel vulnerable. I always imagined it is totally unsafe to travel or drive alone at night – and truck drivers seem so macho — or maybe that is the image from watching too many Hindi movies! Thank you so much Radhika for sharing this inspiration about a woman in our country – succeeding in a way that speaks to our heart. All glory and best wishes to Yogita! 🙂
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I have the same picture in my mind…brutal rugged men driving trucks, devoid of emotions. I applaud Yogita’s courage and optimistic attitude to foray into this. Not many of us can take on something like that.
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And in the movies they always show them drinking and dancing in the middle of the night in shady places! Thank you for sharing about such an inspiring and courageous woman with all of us.
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Yes 😀
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Wow, that’s so inspiring. Kudos to Yogita 👍 Thanks for sharing!!
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Kudos to Yogita and many women like her who are not intimidated by people and societal norms.
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An inspiring story and yes to be working in a male dominated society needs courage. I have heard in our Mumbai there are some women driving taxis and that is commendable. Nice post, Radhika.
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Thanks Kamal. I heard there are some women who steer the local trains there as well.
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Yes I think I have seen one or two in local trains but they will have other men besides them too. It is a good start, Radhika. When I went to Spain I saw many ladies driving trains and buses. Welcome.
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Radhika, thank you for sharing this. I applaud her courage. 🙂
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I join you in applauding all such courageous women Miriam!
Good to see you here after long. How have you been?
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Our family went to Hong Kong and Japan in January, I had a blog tour for my poetry book in February and a promotion on Amazon in March. I have some interviews this week and some weeks to come.
I got to go see my granddaughter for a week last month.
So I blog as much as I could, and I was glad to stop my your post.
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Wow… Such an inspiring woman….
I remember during my childhood trucks were the only ride that made me scared..
Kudos to this woman for taking up the wheel.. That’s power and confidence…
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One brave woman she! I am sure she will inspire many more !!
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A truck driver’set life is a very rough one. It is admirable – and bold – that Yogita chose it. Hope she is a trendsetter.
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Absolutely Someshwar ji. Kudos to such brave souls who walk the path less travelled.
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Such a brave woman.
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Indeed she is!!
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This was an inspiring story, thanks for the share Radhika.
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I am glad that I shared her inspiring story here. Thanks for the read Moushumi 🙂
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Wow! Amazing woman! She is really an inspiration and she proves that nothing is impossible for women.
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Yes Megala. A journey of immense courage and belief!
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Kudos to Yogita Raghuvanshi !! 👍👍
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Amazing story – thanks for this beautiful share – very inspiring
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Thanks Shantanu.
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My pleasure
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How inspiring… kudos to Yogita for her courage, determination and positive attitude!!
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Thank you for sharing this…it is indeed motivating…
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My pleasure. How are you my friend. Happy to see you here after long!
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An inspiring story, Radhika!❤️❤️
Indeed it takes more than just courage and conviction to survive in today’s male dominated world! Hats off to her resilience!👍👍
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Yes, hats off to her indomitable spirit!!
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This is really amazing and commendable! It’s not easy for men too what she was able to achieve!! Admire her courage!!
Regarding coming across such women, i once booked an uber and when it arrived i saw that it was driven by a lady…and she was really good at it!! Much better than male drivers! Her driving was smooth, she followed all the traffic rules and was very polite…i was very impressed by her and it also showed women are no less than men…infact they have proven to be better!
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It’s truly wonderful to see women foray into male dominated professions and excel at it too. Given the opportunity, she can do wonders 👍. Thanks Sifar for sharing your inputs!
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Thanks for sharing this Radhika😊
Its truly inspiring and highly motivating. She is indeed a very courageous woman👏👏👏
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It’s all my pleasure Yasmin. Such commendable efforts needs to reach out to more people!
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I absolutely agree with you👍
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we need more women truck drivers, assuming they wont drink, more for their own safety, also making our roads safer.
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Awesome!!What a read indeed inspiring…
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Thank you Bhavana!
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I am happy to know these kind of positive things happening in the society where we are always surrounded by negative news.
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Yes absolutely! This kind of news should be made viral!
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Wow! Brave woman! I didn’t know this, but it makes me happy that another stereotype has been broken
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Absolutely! Cheers to that👍
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Oh this is such a moving account. Hats off to her strength and courage. One can only imagine the hurdles she must have gone in her life to be where she is right now.
Thanks, Radhika for sharing.
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Absolutely Megha. It takes tremendous guts to achieve what she is doing.
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A role model for many
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Yes👍
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Great story
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Thanks Daneel!
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Welcome Radhika
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