When he was 13, he fell off the terrace of his house and lost his sight. That could have been the end of the world for Suresh Reddy, a resident of Srikalahasti in Andhra Pradesh. But undaunted, the boy started concentrating more on his studies.
Now 26, Reddy, son of a farmer, is now one of the 465 students in the post graduate programme (PGP) class of IIM-Cacutta, but the first student to be admitted in the premier B school with a 100 per cent visual disability.
In fact, the young man had got calls from four other IIMs - at Lucknow, Indore, Kozhikode and Ranchi “Living with visual disability is a pain. I have to put in four to five times more efforts than a regular student,” points out Reddy. For the last last one month, the gutsy young man has been devising ways on how he can tackle his studies. While other students see elaborations on blackboards and projections on screens, Reddy tries to learn everything through listening. And discussions with his friends.
All that he has got is a screen-reading software with voice output on his computer. However, the student who is associated with five clubs at the school, from entrepreneurship to finance, says there is ‘no other option but to be optimistic’.
A Bachelor of Business Management ( BBM) from Bangalore University, Reddy has worked in four organisations including Wipro Technologies before joining the IIM-C. He aspires to have a career in the combined fields of human resources and finance or human resources and consulting.
Now 26, Reddy, son of a farmer, is now one of the 465 students in the post graduate programme (PGP) class of IIM-Cacutta, but the first student to be admitted in the premier B school with a 100 per cent visual disability.
In fact, the young man had got calls from four other IIMs - at Lucknow, Indore, Kozhikode and Ranchi “Living with visual disability is a pain. I have to put in four to five times more efforts than a regular student,” points out Reddy. For the last last one month, the gutsy young man has been devising ways on how he can tackle his studies. While other students see elaborations on blackboards and projections on screens, Reddy tries to learn everything through listening. And discussions with his friends.
All that he has got is a screen-reading software with voice output on his computer. However, the student who is associated with five clubs at the school, from entrepreneurship to finance, says there is ‘no other option but to be optimistic’.
A Bachelor of Business Management ( BBM) from Bangalore University, Reddy has worked in four organisations including Wipro Technologies before joining the IIM-C. He aspires to have a career in the combined fields of human resources and finance or human resources and consulting.