Click to play videoSurat: Meet Bhumika Pujari. Like many other girls her age, this 23-year-old too loves to move to the rhythmic beats of garba.
Though deaf and dumb by birth, Bhumika is an expert in dandiya.
Where her other faculties failed her, she used her observation power-- Bhumika spent hours examining the other dancers as they moved to the tune missing in her silent world.
The vibrations of the drums were her only guide and her belief in god, the driving force.
“Even we don't know how she synchronises with the rhythm. Sometimes we get confused,” says Bhumika’s sister, Ankita.
Another hurdle for Bhumika was dhodhia, Surat's unique style of garba that is performed at a much faster pace as compared to the garba as we know it.
And while her counterparts often resort to professional training before garba competitions, Bhumika is on her own.
In the age when tradition has become a routine, Bhumika does garba in its true spirit with her belief in God and herself. As for the music, it's in her heart.
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