This story is from August 26, 2021

Gujarat: Puncture man in Amreli seals bright future for both sons

Dreams, they say will carry you anywhere you want to go, but only if you dare. And this father of two in Amreli dared — and let his dream achieve its pursuit of happiness — even as he counted every penny that he could earn by mending tyre punctures to educate his two sons.
Gujarat: Puncture man in Amreli seals bright future for both sons
Darshan and Keval Goswami
RAJKOT: Dreams, they say will carry you anywhere you want to go, but only if you dare. And this father of two in Amreli dared — and let his dream achieve its pursuit of happiness — even as he counted every penny that he could earn by mending tyre punctures to educate his two sons.
Today, with one son in the Indian Navy and another studying to be a doctor, 50-year-old Hasmukh Goswami is the happiest face in Savarkundla town.
Along with studies, the father also ingrained the noble trait of humility in his successful boys who continue to help their father in his repair shop whenever they come home for the holidays.
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“I am illiterate and was doing work as a labourer before I started this puncture shop,” said Goswami, who has been running his shop for over three decades now, and is a popular man in the town.
Goswami’s wife Trikona, who had studied up to the fifth standard, took keen interest in her sons’ education and this made her husband firm up his desires to see that their children did not suffer in life the way that he had to. “I did everything in my capacity to give them a good education,” said the man who borrowed money from relatives to pay his sons’ fees when they had to leave town for higher education in bigger cities.
Twenty-year-old Keval, Goswami’s elder son who did his engineering from Surat joined the navy as a sailor six months ago. “We brothers also work in our shop to support our studies. I joined the navy six months ago but whenever I come home, you will find me at my father's shop,” said Keval, who is currently posted in Mumbai.

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The brother duo who studied in government school till class 12 in Savarkundla used the shop both as a means to help their father and also their place to study.
Goswami’s younger son, Darshan, is pursuing MBBS in a college in Vadodara. Goswami had taken an education loan to support his son’s medical studies after the family decided to make him a doctor looking at his excellent educational grades.
While his dreams are soaring in the desired direction, Goswami does not want to retire from his shop even after his sons start earning. “I am happy with my work and want to continue working till I can,” said the man, who doesn’t want to rest on his laurels.
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