Beyond Horizons: Overcoming Personal Limits | Dr. Vidya Yeravdekar | TEDxSIU Hyderabad

Overcoming Limits & Achieving Goals - The speaker's father established an organization overcoming discrimination against international students in the 1970s, which later became one of the largest multidisciplinary universities in India [1] - The speaker overcame initial aversion to medical school by confronting fears in the dissection hall, eventually becoming a gynecologist [1] - Establishing a university required acquiring land amidst bureaucratic hurdles, which was achieved by persistent efforts and direct intervention with the Chief Minister before election deadlines [1] - Creating a heritage site with the Dr Ambedkar Museum involved transforming barren land acquired despite public criticism, turning it into a nationally and internationally recognized monument [1] Expansion & International Ventures - Establishing a campus in Hyderabad faced legal, political, and regulatory hurdles, requiring Supreme Court intervention to gain permission to start classes [2] - Creating an international campus in Dubai required convincing the Minister of Finance to allow funding transfer, marking the first permission of its kind for an Indian university [2] Empowerment & Education - A young girl, married at 14 to a widower, was encouraged to study medicine and later established a medical college for girls after losing her child [2] - An idea to start something by the acronym of SAI (the institute of Artificial Intelligence) shaped into an institution in literally two months [2] - A young girl from a poor family secured a scholarship by learning English through YouTube and practicing in front of a broken mirror, later becoming a nurse and aspiring to educate other girls from her village [2][3][4][5]