Malini Chib Biography 
Malini Chib is a disability rights activist and author born in Kolkata in 1966. She was diagnosed with cerebral palsy a few days after her birth, and back in the 1960s, when there was no proper school for children with disabilities in India, her mother Mithu Alur trained in Institute of Education, England and started the Spastics Society of India (SSI) in 1972. Now Mithu is regarded as a pioneer in the care and education of people with Neuro-Muscular and Developmental Disabilities, and she was the first one to a special school in India for children with cerebral palsy, "Centre for Special education" at Colaba in 1973, first one of this kind in India, which provided education and treatment facilities for such children. For her efforts towards this field, Mithu Alur has been honoured with Padma Shri by government of India.
Malini was born in Calcutta, India in 1966. She was born to Ranjit Chib and social activist and educationalist Mithu Alur. She suffered from a loss of oxygen during birth causing cerebral palsy. As there was no enough facility available in India to deal with such kids in the 1960s, the family moved to England, and Mithu also completed a course. Her younger brother was born in London and the family moved back to India in the early 1970s. Mithu got support from then Prime Minister Indira Gandhi to open the school and actress Nargis Dutt became the first patron. Thus a special school was opened in India for children with cerebral palsy at Colaba. It began with just three children including Malini, and education and treatment facilities were provided for them.
Malini then attended Thomas Delarue School, a boarding school for students with cerebral palsy and then returned to India. She graduated from St. Xavier's College in Mumbai and took her Master’s degree in London. Chib wrote her first book and autobiography One Little Finger, and published in 2010. It took more than two years for her to type the whole book using her little finger, and the book was critically well acclaimed.
Published: March 01, 2019
Updated: March 01, 2019
