Making a great stride

Dr E Sandhya By Faris Arakkal MM GHANI Award instituted by the Calicut University for the best teachers at its affiliated colleges is yet another feather in her cap. Associate professor of Statistics in Pudukad Prajyoti Niketan college Dr E Sandhya who won the award for the 2010-11 academic year is a multi-faceted personality. Sandhya considers the award as an acknowledgemt for her years of sheer hard work. She believes that the ariticles she published in some research journals may have helped her winning the award. She took the road often less travelled. Selected statistics as her main subject and grabbed a rank by scoring 997 out of 1000. It was just an initial trigger; she then geared herself to another achievement. In 1990 she bagged the Young Scientist Award instituted by the Indian Science Congress. Dr Sandhya does not limit herself in the world of figures. Equally interested in literature, she published her maiden short story Kai Nirayunnu at the age of seven. Now, she has published her writings in mainstream Malayalam magazines and won some prizes. Her short story Puzha paranhathu won the first prize in a competition conducted by the Puzha online magazine. She has also won the second prize in Thakazhi short story awards for her story Patikal Kayarunna Penkutty. This story has later been filmed successfully. Dr K V Thomas of Kozhikode Malabar Christian College and Dr VD John of Irinjalakuda Christ College are also in the list of the best teachers this time. With this award Dr Sandhya, who had also worked at Marthoma College, Perumbavoor, gains more confidence as a teacher. However she promises that she will give due importance to her other roles like mother, wife and poet. Sandhya has two children and her husband santhosh is a BSNL employee.