The Indian Woman Who Trains Commandos

She puts the Black Cat in Black Cat Commandos. Dr. Seema Rao is India’s first and only woman commando trainer.   😎

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00:30When I was a child, I was like any other child who wanted to grow up and be a doctor or an

01:19engineer. I was banned after I had to sell my muggles to throw my gold. But that's okay,

01:48that's part of the whole thing. Sometimes I think the Mangal Sutra is the Hindu symbol for marriage,

01:56which means partnership, which means being able to face your life together and everything that

02:04life has to offer you both. And I think that the Mangal Sutra has been used appropriately

02:09because when we were in trouble, financial trouble, and still wanting to go ahead and

02:15train the forces, that Mangal Sutra did its job of keeping us together and I think we bonded even

02:21more stronger, you know, despite the Mangal Sutra not being around. When I heard the news of my

02:40father's death, and I was in an unarmed conversation at that time, I must have lost my focus. So the

02:47trainee picked me up and dropped me on the ground. I landed on my head and I was concussed. I was

02:55unconscious. And when I woke up, opened my eyes, I couldn't remember a thing. It was like, just like

03:02an erase on my memory. I didn't know why I'm there in the army unit. What am I doing among soldiers?

03:10It was quite a terrifying feeling. When I would be in the hospital looking at the white ceiling,

03:27I would ask myself, why am I doing this? What am I getting out of all this? Should I really

03:34continue doing this? Or maybe it's high time I gave up. I contemplated a lot. But the answer

03:42deep within was, you know, I wanted to do the work that I was doing in spite of it being

03:49laced with trouble and risk. If I look back at my life, I feel satisfied that I lived well,

04:07honorably. The press has all kinds of names for me. They call me a wonder woman, they call me

04:25iron woman, they call me everything possible that they can think of. But I like to stick

04:31to India's first and only. I hope to come out better than that.