In a remote village in the Bihar region of northeast India, in October 2005, a woman named Poonam Tatma gave birth to an extraordinary child — a girl with four arms and four legs who was destined to become famous worldwide.
The newborn was the image of a multi-limbed Hindu goddess named Lakshmi, who is worshiped as a deity of wealth and good fortune. And so the child was also named Lakshmi.
“After she was born, for a whole month crowds of people came to see her,” Tatma said. “It was said that Lakshmi had been born here.”
When Lakshmi turned age 2, a socialworker sent photos of her to Dr. Sharan Patil, who is a leading orthopedic surgeon at Sparsh Hospital in Bangalore, India, which specializes in treating skeletal abnormalities in children.
“I had never seen anything like those pictures,” Patil said. “We had read about it in our books, and medically, it was fascinating because it was such a rare thing.” - more
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