Due to the backward mindset of society, Kalpana could not fulfill her dream of becoming a doctor and so she decided to become a Nutritionist. Today she is a Registered Dietician and helps sportspersons with their diet plans at her sports academy.

Kalpana Dangi is a co-owner at Vaikuntha Sports Academy. She is a Sports Nutritionist and a wellness coach, dealing with diets and nutrition of sports persons. She is a Registered Dietician as well.

Kalpana was born in Udaipur but raised in Banswara as her father got transferred there. She did her schooling from St. Paul’s School. She says she belonged to a middle class family in which girls were not allowed to have good education but because of her mother, she got a chance to study and even in a convent school which was a big deal for her.

Kalpana wanted to pursue MBBS for which she appeared in the PMT, which she cleared and got admission in RNT Medical College, Udaipur but because she was supposed to stay in a hostel, away from home, her family refused her permission and so she had to drop her dream of becoming a doctor. Eventually, she did BCA which was not at all her field. Somehow she passed her three years in the field of computers but moving ahead she decided that she just can’t go for masters in this field.

Kalpana’s friend suggested that she should pursue a Nutritionist course and so Kalpana did a four-year diploma in that and did masters too. She also did some certification courses from Stanford University.

After getting married to a sportsperson, Kalpana with her husband decided to open a Sports Academy and hence Vaikuntha Sports Academy came into existence. They got a great response and it went well for them. She says that Vaikuntha is like a sports hub where every age group can come and explore their options for entertainment as well as for fitness. They offer a wide range of sports having badminton courts, zumba, squash court, swimming pool, Table Tennis, Karate and many other activities. She says sports and nutrition should be in a proper balance which is provided by them with proper diet charts. They are even planning to expand and open another branch in new areas to reach out to people of those areas and even planning to introduce a few more sports.

About leadership, Kalpana says she doesn’t see herself as a leader, instead she likes to have a friendly approach so that parents and students can easily share their problems with her.

Kalpana opines that education and career are completely different from experience because education teaches us theoretical knowledge but practical experience is never taught anywhere be it in schools or colleges or in books. So both of them have their separate importance and place in life.

Kalpana says that the Corona period was disastrous for everyone. She says according to their plans, they invested around one-and-a-half crores to make a swimming pool and badminton courts at their academy. Suddenly Covid came, lockdown was imposed and the academy got shut down and they felt devastated. After a couple of months when things came back to normal, they started again with a few members and things started falling in place.