Palak was born on July 7 1992 in Navsari, Gujarat. She is a Down syndrome child, so Palak’s parents started early intervention immediately after birth and so she is connected and accepted not only by all her family members, but also everyone around her and all the people she meets. She went to Ahmedabad with her grandfather Mr. B.K. Pandya and was admitted at Santvan school for special needs children with Ms. Amola Thakor and Mr. Anwar as the occupational therapist associated with the school. Palak was the light for other children and the staff. Gradually she started helping other children. Mr. B.K. Pandya developed all the necessary and basic things in Palak as Down syndrome kids require special attention and care for their grooming. Palak communicated very well since a very early age. She was taught to recite Sanskrit verses and hence her pronunciations are very clear from the beginning. Mr. B.K. Pandya taught her everything with the help of charts at home and she was then taken outside to see the actual things, be it animals, fruits, vegetables, natures, vehicles etc.
She was practically taught everything. She responded very well to everything. When Palak returned to Navsari in 1998, she joined a normal school, Bai Navajbai Tata Girls’ high school and successfully completed her higher secondary education in 2012. In 2013, she then joined her parents’, Dr. Nina P. Vaidya and Dr. Piyush B. Vaidya’s hospital, Madhuban Orthopaedic Hospital/ Shaishav Children Hospital as an assistant hospital manager and is doing fantastically well in her job since the very first day. Palak is fond of various things including music, singing, dance, food, interacting with people and she is very social wherever she goes. She has also done and keeps doing various productive activities and is a very fast and immediate learner. She grasps everything and learns very easily. Palak is a travel enthusiast and loves to go out on a holiday to places all around the world. She always spreads positivity and good vibes all the time and everywhere she goes. Palak is naturally very caring, very giving, very loving, very sensitive, very affectionate and a very pure soul. She is a ray of sunshine and hope.
