She joined a hosiery unit on a wage of Rs Sheltered by her uncle, and later, by a benevolent Gujarati family, she unleashed herself on a long march. While her childhood friends went to colleges,she bought a sewing machine.She bore the insults for 10 years before leaving the rural slum in which her family stayed to come to Mumbai. Downcast, she tried her hand at nursing, tailoring and other odd jobs but only succeeded in antagonizing the villagers by these attempts ‘to step beyond her social boundaries’.Kalpana’s thirst for letters did not die and she joined school again and cleared her 9th standard.Conscious of the fact that her parental home is not the place where she could spend the rest of her life, she decided to turn into her own bread-winner. She returned back to her parents a year later.She tried joining the police force at age 13, but failed. Early Life:-She was Born in a poor Dalit family.Her father was a police constable.She was was married off forcibly at the age of 12 to a man more than 10 years older to her.She joined her husband in a Mumbai slum and was verbal and physical abused by her in-laws.All this eventually led to a suicide attemp.
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