ahmedabad a woman born with severe hearing deficiency heeded the sound of confidence in her inner voice and created a fulfilling life for herself rachna shah 30 of ahmedabad now works as a parttime teacher at a private school after being trained in bharatanatyam classical music and in various musical instruments shah who is a sangeet visharad was born with 100 profound hearing loss in 2017 she got her name enshrined in the limca book of world records she can also play and sing eight classical ragasuniversity of records based in the united kingdom has awarded shah an honorary doctorate for creating records in the category of persons with disabilities she has authored and published five volumes on fashion designing in english she wrote a book titled rachna the creation of thoughts during the pandemic the book is on her work her thoughts on various experiences and learnings from her lifeshahs mother gnaneshwari shah a professor at a city college said that she did not lose courage when her daughter was born with the medical condition gnaneshwari gave her daughter a hearing aid and also made her listen to classical music then a miracle happened shah not only started responding to classical music but also developed profound love for music and dance with great perseverance shah achieved sangeet visharad the highest degree in music and dancein limca book of records shah has an entry dedicated to her for dancing singing and playing harmoniumwe had first introduced her to the world of music as a part of therapy doctors had told us to start with music or dance and we chose dance gnaneshwari said over the years she started developing an interest in music too at six she gave her first stage performance and after that she did not look back gnaneshwari added rachna later started learning bharatanatyam and at the age of nine she completed her training she got the sangeet visharad certification at the age of 13 from gandharva mahavidyalaya