Skies Over, Now Its A Star

In 2008 Yasmin Iqbal Bhutia hailing from Gangtok missed the opportunity to grasp the state sponsored pilot training, but her father Late Md Iqbal Bhutia encouraged his daughter to go ahead with the training however it takes from his capacity. Yasmin and her father took off to Hyderbabad on July 2008 where Yasmin fortunately got enrolled in the India’s renowned Rajiv Gandhi Aviation Academy also known as Wing’s Aviation Academy.
A 24 years old proud captain daughter of Md Iqbal Bhutia and Smt Mariam Iqbal Bhutia did her schooling from St Joseph Convent in Kalimpong till Class X and she completed her XI , XII in Science Stream from Dr Grahams Homes Kalimpong in the year 2008. A caring father who always dreamt to see his daughter fly high assisted daughter to go for a pilot training even though ‘Unluckily’ she couldn’t through state sponsorship.
It was barely a month after she gets an admission in flying academy at Hyderbabad a big shock left Yasmin and her family in despair , her father passed away leaving mother, herself and her younger brother behind. With just a month she’d started training at Hyderabad the whole world turned heavy on her head but having whole dream of father to accomplish the destiny, Yasmine’s mother stood as a strong pillar to confront every challenges. It was an embarrassing situation but when the dedicated mother, a woman stood against all situation to tackle every bit of challenges then nothing can stop her. Yasmin gives all credits to her hardworking mother, she managed everything so well and she even didn’t let us realize pain even for a single second, Yasmin says. ‘The struggle she did for us after father passed away makes us feel very proud’.
Yasmin to VoS narrates her struggle during the training period which took her nearly 4 years to complete , with the determination and a dream of father in her eyes she gazed at the sky with a bold courage that she’d conquer the limits. She said that training was rigorous , as many trainees who had enrolled slowly walked out without completing the training. According to her she along with her another mate was only two female in the group of 10 during the pass out year. ‘One cannot just leave off on half way when the dream smears in the mind completely, it varies person to person but to me it was a challenge as well. In the infinity skies surrounded in between the clusters of cloud one shouldn’t feel completely directionless, direction don’t matter unless one reinforce through it to find a way courageously ’, she said to VoS.
‘However there was struggle but good number of best instructors in the institution never let our mind blogged with impossibility. We undergone through various program and skill building classes during the period of flying training, we even had a crush with scores of hard moments but we resisted and controlled such situations clogging our direction by our mind power and wisdom, that’s what is taught to us. There’s absolutely nothing to fear with height or any sort of mental retardation during the flight, it’s a reason some people think looking at the cockpit having strange looking widgets and gears, those when mastered will obey your commands, she said.
15/02/14 Voiceof Sikkim