Humble by her nature and strong by her will, Sumita Sharma is the personification of how determination can help you set up a path that leads to success.

Sumita Sharma hails from Sikar, Rajasthan. She did her schooling from her village itself but due to the lack of educational structure in her village and classes limited to only twelfth standard, she did her graduation from Rajasthan University. After her marriage, she shifted to Udaipur, where she further pursued a masters in Sociology from Meera Girls College. She then went on to do her Phd in the same. After she was awarded her Phd in 2003, Sumita started working as a guest faculty in Sociology at Mohanlal Sukhadia University, Udaipur.

When Sumita started teaching in Udaipur, her husband was transferred elsewhere and she had to live alone without her family. Then she was awarded a post doctoral fellowship by ICSSR, and she had to live in Jaipur for two years as she was pursuing it from Rajasthan University, Jaipur. Sumita says these were the struggle periods in her life where she took all her problems head-on and learned a lot.

Sumita says Sociology is the study of social life, social change, and the social causes and consequences of human behavior. She thinks it is a very important subject as all the factors  are correlated and affect each other in certain ways. To teach her students effectively, she tried to clear all their doubts about the subject diligently, as well as take them on outings to different slum areas where they can see and understand the social and economical differences..

Sumita considers her mother as her one and only role model in life. She considers her husband and her teachers as an inspiration and the people who always pushed her to do her best.

Sumita was very fond of Sanskrit language and wanted to pursue a career in Sanskrit but because of some circumstances, she had to choose Sociology as her subject.

Sumita believes that being a teacher is an important  job as a teacher can be an example for many of their students, for their mannerism and ethics. Also, it’s the teachers and education that carves the future of a country and she is happy to play her part.

Talking about the Covid-19 pandemic, Sumita thinks it was both fire and ice. She was unhappy because despite being able to deliver all her quality content to her students, they were not able to engage well and clear their doubts while on the contrary, she is happy she was able to learn the latest technologies of teaching, which without the pandemic would not have been possible.

In her free time, Sumita tries to give back to society by giving free tuitions, and empowering women from the slum areas near her house.

Sumita thinks that the young generation today, only wants to progress in the fields of science and commerce but no importance is given to social science. She urges everyone to pay equal importance to sociology as without it, even science and commerce are impractical.

She concludes by urging all the women to be exemplary both inside and outside their homes. They should not only be good at handling their households but also independent. She wants them to become aware of their rights and educate themselves. She thinks only then our societies can progress positively.